LIB 120 Exam 2 Study Guide

Lecture notes – http://www.uri.edu/library/staff_pages/kinnie/lib120/index.html

• What is Information/Information Literacy?
• Information Organization
• The Research Process
• Quality of Information - Evaluation Checklist
• Finding Periodical information
• Electronic Databases

MLA Citation Format (http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/MLA/bibliographymla.htm)
Key concepts and synonyms
Search strategies and search statements
Boolean operators
Access points
Publication cycle
Information cycle
"Invisible college"
Finding articles in a general reference database using field searching
Periodical indexes abd library catalogs
Finding periodicals in HELIN
Selecting an appropriate database (Subject specific reference databases covered in team presentations)
The research question