Screencasts

Screencasts are short demo video clips that show you how to use some of our resources and services quickly!

Guides

The following how-to guides will help you find appropriate materials for your research.

• Articles: Finding Articles in the Library
• Articles: Finding Periodicals in the Library
• Articles: Popular, Trade, and Scholarly Sources
• Articles: Searching an Article Index
• Articles: Understanding a Citation
• Biographical Information
• Books
• Book Reviews
• Catalogs of Other Libraries
• Children's Books
• Company Information
• Course Reserves
• Dictionaries
• Dissertations & Theses
• E-mailing PDF Articles to Your E-mail Account from Library Computers
• Employment
• Encyclopedias
• ERIC Documents
• ERIC Documents: Alternate Access
• ERIC Documents: A Brief Guide to the ERIC Database
• Internet & Web Searching
• LexisNexis
• Movie Reviews
• Music
• News and Current Events
• Non-English Resources
• People
• Periodical Articles - How to locate them
• Play Reviews
• Plays
• Poems
• Primary Documents
• Quotations
• Resume Guides
• Short Stories
• Slides in ImageCat
• Slides in WestCat
• Truncation and Phrase Searching in Databases
• Types of WestCat Searches
• Videotapes & Films
• Using the FirstSearch System
• Web - Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages
• Writing Style Guides