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.

• A. Pick one of the full text articles and print it out.

• B. Pick another article that is not full text. It should say: View text and retrieval choices; or View abstract and retrieval choices

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):

• Click on the Help button twice

• Look for the section What do you need? then click on How do I cite an article?

• Write down how you will cite the article above using the Modern Language Association (MLA) Style:

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

• Click on Online Databases

• Click on L

• Scroll down till you find LEXIS-NEXIS

• Click on LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe

• Click on News , and then General News

• Type pollution in the keyword box. If you have your own topic type in the broad term.

• Type Boston harbor in the Narrow search with additional terms box . If you have your own topic, type in one or several terms to narrow your search.

• In the Source box, select Major Newspapers

• In the Date box, select Previous Year, or other appropriate range of years

• Click on Search

• Print one of the articles, then e-mail another article to yourself or one of your classmates.

• Citing References:
  • Click on the Help button at the top of the page, then Citing References in LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universeî

  • Write down how you will cite the article you printed from LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe: