Topic Guides
Topic Guides are more task-focused than Subject Guides and supplement the Course Guides. We have a lot of topic guides for finding specific kinds of information. Remember, Ask Us Anything if you need help finding information.
| Citation Formatting |
Check out our quick guides for ALA, MLA, and Chicago styles; a cheat sheet on how to use RefWorks to do the heavy lifting; and links to some of the better online citation tools.
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| Find Books |
The Library Catalog, EZ-Borrow, and ILLiad are your friends when you're looking for books, CDs, DVDs, etc. The catalog will tell you if Ship owns the item, EZ-Borrow will check Pennsylvania libraries, and ILLiad will request a specific, known, item from the 5 libraries closest to us which own the item.
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| Find Company Data |
Need company data? Looking for competitive information? Market share? Financial data and company or industry outlook? Here's a basic process to follow.
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| Find eBooks |
eBooks: they're like books, but not as heavy. The library subscribes to some useful collections of eBooks and others are freely available online. When you can't get to the library building, you can get to these online.
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| Find Literary Criticism |
Got a literature or composition assignment? Literary criticism resources will help improve your paper. Read what others have written about your topic and build in the shoulders of giants.
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| Find Media |
Want or need pictures or video to jazz up an assignment? We subscribe to several databases of high res images and we have loads of videos on VHS & DVD.
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| Find News Articles |
All the news that's fit to print, and more. Search full text databases by topic or browse a newspaper by date there's more than one way to find out what's going on in the news about the topic for your assignment.
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