Gather Information
From a Variety of Sources

Local Print and Nonprint Resources

• School Library holdings
  • Automated Card Catalog
• Public Library holdings
  • BCPL Online Catalog
• Print Encyclopedias
• CD-ROM Encyclopedias
• Online Encyclopedias
  • Britannica.com (free access to limited encyclopedia

•   Search Strategies (Boolean, Natural Language, etc)
• Using the BCPL Online Catalog  
• Unpacking the "Big" Question (Extracting Key Words)
• Using Print and CD-ROM Encyclopedias... Advantages of different encyclopedia formats
• Using Online Encyclopedias ...See help section on each encyclopedia website

Other Internet sources for searching:
Fee Based Data Bases for newspapers, magazines, maps, excerpts from books, and TV and radio transcripts.

•  Evaluating Websites for Authenticity...This skill lesson would be extremely helpful for evaluating web sites pertaining to the Holocaust.