Chapter 9 Summary

Chapter 9 discusses how to search for information using print resources. The chapter is broken down into three which are, how you can use library stacks to locate sources, how you can use a library periodicals room to find sources and lastly how you can use a library reference room to locate sources. These play a huge role in producing a paper because you need to find as many sources as possible, but you also want them to be credible and reliable. To start off, you need to first know where to locate sources using the library stacks. You want to start off with browsing the stacks, which you will look at how the sources are classified. Many sources are classified by subject which they may use the Dewey decimal system or the Library of Congress. Another great thing about finding a publication that may work is you can check their work sited page which can send you in the right direction of finding more related sources. One issue with using the library is an article that may have benefited your paper may not be available but there are ways you can get around that speed bump. You can also do an Interlibrary loan which means you borrow the book/periodical from another library that has it. Next this chapter discusses how you can use the library periodicals room to find sources. In this room you will find newspapers, magazines and scholarly/professional journals. Among these sources you will discover the work sited list which will help you find "key voices" that some of the sources share. This will help you because it will point you in another direction to find a source that seems to be reoccurring and may have beneficial information provided. Lastly, this chapter discusses how you can the library reference room to help locate sources also. These reference rooms contain a wide variety of topics. The one key thing about the reference room is you can get your hands on bibliographies, indexes, biographies, encyclopedias, handbooks, almanacs ands atlases. This sections goes into detail about where you can find the bibliographies in these sources and breaks down each field. This chapter is very beneficial because it discusses ideas for research that I hadn't though of before reading.