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Research 101: Mastering the Library

23 minutes 13 seconds

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Small stack of reading material, including Business Week and the New York Times. Caption. We looked into reference sources.

Aaron and Megan visit a research, or academic, library to demonstrate its unique advantages over online searching. Discusses special collections, accurate and quality information, speed of access, and better technical support (librarians). Shows how to focus the topic, determine information needs, find and retrieve materials, evaluate information, and organize it into a paper. Mentions plagiarism and information literacy.

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Runtime: 23 minutes 13 seconds

Topic: Language Arts
Subtopic: Library and Reference Skills
Grade/Interest Level: 6 - 12
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Release Year: 2001
Producer/Distributor: SVE & Churchill Media
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Digital rendering of neoclassical buildings scattered across a map of the United States. Text at bottom reads, "16,000." Caption. Today there are more than 16,000 public libraries.

3 teenagers, 2 girls and 1 boy, working together at a shared desk covered with notebooks, binders, and open textbooks. Caption. Each person does a thorough review.

Orange background with a clip art drawing of a smiling, brown-haired woman on the left, and a magnifying glass and a blue notebook on the right. Text in the middle of the screen reads, "Evaluate sources for relevance. Teaching without frills."

Orange background with a clip art drawing of a magnifying glass in the bottom left corner. Text in the middle of the screen reads, "Evaluate sources for reliability. Teaching without frills."

Closeup of 2 teenage boys seated at classroom desk, writing. Caption. And got all the research and books we needed together.

Closeup of a cartoon purple cat wearing a yellow hat and black over-the-head headphones. Black antennae from aliens are visible on either side of the cat. Caption. Which you can usually find by sounding the word out.

Closeup of a man looking to the side in a library setting. He wears a sage green collared shirt with a white tee-shirt underneath and smiles. Behind him are books on study carrels and library shelving. Caption. But you don't have to whisper whisper.