Information Literacy Quiz: Exam! Trivia

Along with Altavista, Bing, Yahoo, etc.

If you got this wrong you may want to check out the plagiarism interactive program on the NU Writing Center web site.

Amazon.com is a store, and magazines and newspapers appeal to a mass audience.

Every library has a catalog (OPAC) that lists all of its holdings. There is a special catalog used to find the holdings of the libraries in Kansas, and online databases are used to find magazine articles.

Let's say you keep a journal, and you've done this over a number of years. That journal would be a primary source by and about you. Suppose you let a friend read your journal, and he decides to write about you and what you wrote. That friend's composition would be a secondary source.

Example: Women Writers and the Fantastic: Subversion and Liberty. This article explains how fantastic literature can serve as an instrument to deconstruct and reconstruct a new world; how in a fantastic world, a woman my construct her own identity outside the rigid roles imposed upon her in a patriarchal society.

Unless it is one of your textbooks, we don't feel you have to buy a book the library does not have, nor are the chances great that you would get a response from the author. Interlibrary loan is a free service offered by our library. The materials usually take a week or less to arrive. Place interlibrary loan requests at the main desk.

Those databases are almost totally periodical. They may provide book excerpts and audio transcripts, but these are not their primary usage.

Definitely current but not so accurate.

The TOPIC is the same as the subject, and if you don't know the exact subject heading, use keywords. Sometimes an author is the subject of your research, and in that case, search for your author as a subject, not as an author.

It is quite possible to have a Ph.D., a web site, and throw out hard-to-understand words. These do not necessarily make you a scholar or expert. Being cited by others is most flattering to a scholar.

Length does not necessarily determine quality.

Library books are arranged on the shelves by subject areas so that all religious books are together, history books, nursing books, etc.

AND gives the fewest and most accurate results. NOT eliminates results you do not want. OR is used to give the greatest number of results. "Cars OR automobiles" yields more records than just "cars".