Print materials in the North Library
What?
Task Definition
1. What is my research question?
2. What do I already know?
3. What information do I need?
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Where?
Search Plan
1. What type of information do I need? For example: general, in
depth, current, historical, biographical, issue oriented, other?
2. Review suggested resources, circle ones that fit, prioritize
your list.
3. Evaluate resources for significance, accuracy, currency, authority.
Sample Book List
620 Flo The Civilized Engineer
620 Fur The Engineer
620 Pet Remaking the world: adventures in engineering
620 Pet Inventions by Design: how engineers get from thought
to thing
620.0023 Bai Is there an engineer inside you?
620.0023 Bai The fantastical engineer
620.0023 Pas Cool Careers for Girls in Engineering
620.0076 Goo Engineering projects for young scientists
620.9 Dec Ancient Engineers
621.9023 Dud Opportunities in Tool and Die Careers
624 Hag Opportunities in Civil Engineering Careers
624.023 Pas Cool Careers for Girls in Construction
624.09 Fra Builders
629.1302 Pas Cool Careers for Girsl in Air and Space
670 Ros CD's, Super Glue, and Salsa:how everyday products
are made
Engineering and Dewey Look for
books in these numbers
620 Engineering
621 Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
623 Military and Naval Engineering
624 Civil Engineering
629 Aerospace Engineering
Occupational Briefs 400 current job descriptions and analysis
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How?
Location & Access
1. Jot down rich words that relate to your topic.
2. Check your words, change your words if your search fails.
3. Focus your search by looking for relationships between elements
in your research question.
Keyword or SUBJECT searching in the North
Library catalog
CIVIL ENGINEERING
ENGINEERING DESIGN
MANUFACTURING
WOMEN IN AERONAUTIC
WOMEN IN ASTRONAUTICS
WOMEN IN ENGINEERING
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Online materials
Library Catalog
Find books fast!
North Library Online Databases
Easy access to current information from reliable , authoritative sources.
Home access passwords available from Mrs. Leeson
Cyberography
Selected Web sites
Engineers and Engineering
Engineering Societies
Robotics
- JETS
Junior Engineering Technology Society
Bridges
Summer Programs and Camps
- SESEY
Summer Experience in Science and Engineering for Youth
NASA Links
Cyberography made available by Mrs. Leeson, Librarian
Citation
Maker
Helps you state exactly from where you got your ideas and information.
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