Library

Library Orientation Assignment

Directions: Upon completion of the Instruction session, see how many questions you can answer.
Go to www.southwest.tn.edu/library

1. List 3 ways to search for information using CyberCat?

2. Use an electronic database to answer the following question. What is the first line of the poem The world is not a pleasant place by Nikki Giovanni? What database was used to answer the question?

3. List the Southwest Library agencies that subscribe to the American Heritage magazine.

4. Use an electronic database to locate a full text article on Capital Punishment.
    Answer the questions below.
        What is the title of the article?
        Who is the author?
        What is the magazine title?
        Give the volume number for the magazine?
        Does the library subscribe to the magazine?
        What database was used to answer these questions?

5. Use an electronic database to locate an article on Obesity. Answer the questions below.
        What is the title of the article?
        What database was used to answer this question?

6. What is required to check materials out at Southwest?

7. What is the charge for an overdue videocassette?

8. Use an electronic database to locate a newspaper article about Day Care Centers published between 1980-85.
       Answer the questions below.
       When was the article published?
       What newspaper did the article appear?
       What database was used to answer these questions?

9. Can students from LeMoyne Owen College borrow materials from Southwest?

10. Use the public access catalog to locate a book on Crime Prevention.
        What is the title?
        Who is the author?
        How many pages are in the book?
        Give the publication date?
        Where was the book published?