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1. Midland College's online catalog has records for the following materials:
   Printed books
   Electronic books (eBooks)
   Journals
   DVDs & Audio Books
   Newspapers
   All of the above
   
   
2. The most efficient way to find a book about the writings of Mark Twain is to search the online catalog's:
   author index
   title index
   subject index
   
   
3. When searching some online environments, one can use the Boolean operators:
   A, AN, THE
   AND, OR, NOT
   PLUS, MINUS, TIMES
   all of the above
   
   
4. As a general rule, scholarly journals have:
   multiple illustrations & ads
   short articles using simple language
   longer articles & footnotes
   
   
5. The Fasken LRC's Serial Holdings is an alphabetical list of:
   Journals, magazines, and newspapers received on subscription
   Databases in TexShare
   Electronic journals
   
   
6. Credo Reference is an electronic collection of:
   Over 600 Reference books
   Creedence Clearwater Revival music
   All Creeds in the Bible
   
   
7. Electronic databases available for research at the Fasken LRC:
   are organized in groups by vendor
   index journal articles, some with full-text
   provide access to encyclopedias & images
   all of the above
   
   
8. When you need an article, but full-text is not available in the databases, you need to:
   tell your instructor that the LRC has no resources
   purchase the needed issue
   search the LRC's collection for the needed issue in print and if still not found, request an Interlibrary Loan.
   
   
9. When searching for information about an author and for criticism about his/her writings, some good research tools are:
   Ebsco's Literary Reference Center
   Gale's Literature Resource Center
   Gale's Twayne & Scribner Series
   Gale's Contemporary authors, CLC, DLB
   Fasken LRC's Online Catalog
   all of the above
   
   
10. To find information published in newspapers, some good research tools are:
    Ebsco's Newspaper Source
    Periodicals Dept. at the LRC
    Gale's InfoTrac Newsstand
    all of the above
    
    
11. To find information on health & medical topics, some good research tools are:
    Fasken LRC's Online Catalog
    Ebsco's Health Source Nursing & Health Source Consumer
    Gale's Health Reference
    MEDLINE
    all of the above
    
    
12. If you don't know where to start, or still can't find what you need:
    tell your instructor that the LRC has no resources
    find other tutorials to help you
    get help from the librarians at the LRC
    use Google