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First-Year Writing Seminar: Library Exercise

 

1. Using Quest find any work by LAD TOBIN. (Hint. Make sure that you do Basic Search and that you select Exact Author, last name first )

Title: ______________________________________________________________

Call Number: _____________________________________________________________

 

2. What is the call number of Sports Illustrated? (Hint: Look to your right and click on Boston College Journals)

Call Number: ________________________________________________

 

3. Using Quest find any book that has something to do with the general theme of violence in sports.

(Hint: Be sure to select Keyword Search and use Boolean AND)

Title: ________________________________________________________

Call. Number: ________________________________________________

 

4.Using Quest do a Title Search for Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea.

What is the call number? _______________________________________

 

5.Using the database, Expanded Academic Index ASAP (InfoTrac), and doing a Keyword search, find a journal article about Kurt Cobain's death. If you have your own topic, use that one.

Title of Article: _______________________________________________

Author of Article: _____________________________________________

Name of Journal: _____________________________________________

Volume Number of Journal (if any) ____________ Issue Number (If any) ___________

Date of Journal: ____________________________________________________________

Call No. of Journal: (You need to go back to Quest to do this. Hint: You will need to go back to Quest and search the Boston College Libraries Journals) ___________________________

 

Citing from Expanded Academic Index ASAP (InfoTrac):

 

6. Using LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe to find articles. Follow these directions:

 

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