Chapter Nine

Chapter nine listed key points as to how you can use your library and the process followed when searching for information involving your paper.  The beginning of the chapter explained how you can locate publications which is done by browsing the stacks and checking works cited.  Once you have found a source relevant to your topic, your proceed to check out.  Periodicals are newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals which we will need at least ten scholarly journals for our paper.  A periodicals room consists of recent issues for library users, such as myself to browse.  Majority of the articles found in the library's periodicals room will contain works cited or reference lists.  Once I begin to find an article relevant to my argument, I will then want to check the list of sources for related sources.  As I come across new sources, I will then want to check for authors whose work is cited frequently.  This becomes helpful because key voices in the conversation can be identified.  Print resources which are found in reference rooms, consist of bibliographies, indexes, biographies, encyclopedias, handbooks, almanacs, and atlases.  Bibliographies list books, articles, and other publications.  There's variations when it comes to bibliographies.  Some bibliographies only provide citations, while others include abstracts which are brief descriptions of listed sources.  Complete bibliographies on the other hand try to list all the sources published about the topic, while selective bibliographies try to aim for just the best sources published.  Several types of bibliographies can be found in a library's reference room or stacks.  trade bibliographies allow you to locate books published about a particular topic.  General bibliographies cover a wide range of topics.  Lastly, specialized topics provide lists of sources, majority of the time annotated about a topic.  Indexes provide citation information for sources found in a particular set of publications.  Many indexes can help you determine whether a source is worth locating and reviewing.  Different forms of indexes include periodical indexes, pamphlet indexes, citation indexes, government document indexes, and indexes of materials in books.  These steps in searching for information in the library can become quite useful towards your paper.