Library User Guide

Take a self-guided tour of Blount Library, complete the worksheet on page 4, and introduce yourself to a librarian.

If you attend classes away from Danville, read the tour guide and complete the worksheet on page 4. Contact a reference librarian (aclib@averett.edu, 800-543-9440) to ask a question or request shipment of a book to your home or office.

Browse the library's "Recent Additions" (main floor) to find a book you want to read,

OR, locate a book in the library catalog and in the "stacks" (upper and lower levels),

OR, browse in the stacks to find a book under a specific subject linked from the Library of Congress Classification Outline.

Check your book out at the Blount Library Information Desk or, if you are searching online and taking classes away from Danville, ask the library to ship it to you (aclib@averett.edu)

Connect to:

Enter a search on your general topic without limits. Now, enter the same search, but limit results to Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals.

How many non-peer reviewed (popular or less authoritative) articles did you eliminate in your second search?

Locate a database citation for an article not found at Averett. Request a copy of the article through Interlibrary Loan.

Retrieve a set of three or more full text articles on your topic from Averett library reference databases. Send a PDF or HTML copy of each article to yourself as an email attachment, or save the articles on your computer, flash drive or Google Drive. Record all information required for complete citations, including databases used and dates when you viewed the articles online.

Read each source to the end, highlighting or writing down page numbers of significant passages. Add notes with your own thoughts about the significance of each source. Compare and contrast sources as you decide whether you are satisfied, or whether you need to dive deeper or search more broadly for supporting information.