Govt 2306 @ NLC Library

Texas Government with Dr. Peppers

HANDOUTS 

• Library Essentials -
• Using Online Databases -  
• Developing a Search Strategy -  
• Citing Sources - MSWord  pdf

• Texas Government-   

• Want books? Use:

  ALAMO LIBRARY ONLINE CATALOG 

   

   Try these e-books:

           Texas in the Confederacy [electronic resource] : an experiment in nation building

           Come to Texas [electronic resource] : attracting immigrants, 1865-1915

Want articles? Use:

ELECTRONIC DATABASES

                   *Texas Reference Center

INTERNET SITES

               Handbook of Texas Online

               Texas Online (State of Texas web site)

SEARCH STRATEGIES

OPTIONS FOR FULL-TEXT - Where is the actual article???

NEED HELP? Contact Us!

Call: (210) 486-5388

Email: nlc-reference@alamo.edu

Library Instructor(s): Linda Plevak

•    Databases by Subject - Texas
•    Newspapers 
• Library Hot Links -Texas 
• Government & Legal - Texas Government & Legal
• Boolean - AND, OR, NOT
• Field searching - Subject, Author, Title
• Quotation marks for exact phrase
• Truncation - root + variants (*) 
• Database Limiters: date, full-text 
•  PDF or HTML in database
• A to Z Online Journal Locator
• In-district borrowing or Interlibrary Loan Borrowing