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Doing Library Research

Getting Started || How to Find ... || Evaluating Resources
Citing Sources || Getting Research Help || Information Literacy

Getting Started

• Conducting Research at RIT Library (Research Tree) - introductory guide to library resources - easy to use!
  
  
• NTID Student Guide to RIT Library - a great overview of the library ... relevant to all students!
  
  
• RIT Library Interactive Scavenger Hunt - test your knowledge of RIT Library, services, sources and facilities.
  
  
• Introduction to Databases: A Guided Tour - (requires Flash Player; 4 min)
  
  
• Getting the Most from Your Search - Boolean Searching - (7 minutes, streamed presentation).
  
  
• Library of Congress Classification System - explains how are books arranged in the library.
  
  
• Search Strategy Worksheet - effectively construct a search strategy--save time in the long run.
  
  
• Term Paper Starters - look here if you are stumped for an idea.
  

How to Find ...

• Books and Related Materials - How to find them
  
• Controversial Issues: Pro and Con Discussion
  
• Finding Book Reviews/Criticism
• Foreign Language Newspapers and Magazines in RIT Libraries
• How to Find Journal/Magazine Articles on Your Subject
  
• "Point of View" Journals
  
• Sources for Locating Videos & Other Media
  
• Thesis and Dissertation Resources Available from RIT Libraries
  
  

Evaluating Resources

• Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources
  
• Evaluating Information From the Internet
  
• Distinguishing Scholarly From Non-Scholarly Periodicals
  

Citing Sources

• APA, MLA and other Style Guides
  
  

Getting Research Help 

Assistance from Your College/Center Librarian

Liaison contact information, recommended electronic databases and other very specific subject resources are available:

• Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies
• College of Applied Science and Technology
• College of Business
• College of Computing and Information Science
• College of Engineering
• College of Imaging Arts and Sciences
• College of Liberal Arts
• College of Science
• National Technical Institute for the Deaf

Online Reference Assistance

• ONE 2 ONE Live Reference Service (for RIT use only)
  
  Need to speak with a librarian? Use our real time reference service to live chat with a reference librarian.
  
  
• ASK - Electronic Reference Service (for RIT use only)
  
  Submit quick, general-type reference questionselectronically to the Library's reference staff. You will receive an answer to your question within 24 hours.
  
  
• "Schedule Individual Research Help" Form
  
  Have a paper or a research project to do and you don't know where to start? There is someone who can help you--your Reference Librarian. New or experienced users can benefit from their assistance with research skills and how to use the library and web resources specific to your major/discipline.
  
  

The Reference Desk -- stop by or phone us

The Reference desk is located on the first floor to the right of the library's main entrance. This is the central focal point of the Reference department and the place to ask research questions or questions concerning the use of library resources.

Personal assistance is available at the Reference desk for scheduled hours during the normal quarter schedule. Hours may vary during breaks, holidays & summer quarter.

To reach us by phone please call please call 475-2563 or 475-2564 (TTY).

Maintained by Teresa Kellett