Assignments to Help You Develop
Search Skills

Students in RS101, DM102 or BS1004 may need some or all of the following resources to complete some assignments. Consult course syllabus for exact requirements.

• Glossary of Library Research Terminology. Available if you need it.
• Long Guide to Using BIBLOS. Read this BEFORE trying to answer the Searching BIBLOS assignment.
• Searching BIBLOS. = BIBLOS Basic Assignment
  and
  Searching BIBLOS PhD Supplement. The PhD supplement is not harder per se, but it does address issues more appropriate for doctoral students.
• The Bare Bones Basics of Searching EBSCO Databases (reading)
  and
  ATLA/ATLAS Tips (more reading)
  and
  Practice searching ATLA. (Optional. Displays questions in one frame, and allows live searches of ATLA in another frame; answers appear on demand).
• Searching the ATLA Religion Databases. = ATLA Basic Assignment
  and
  Searching ATLA PhD Supplement. The PhD supplement is not harder per se, but it does address issues more appropriate for doctoral students.
• OCLC FirstSearch and WorldCat documentation (reading)
• Searching WorldCat Basic .