ATE LIBRARY: NOTES

NOTES ON TUTORIAL

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About the Web Site

This web tutorial is designed for students enrolled in the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program, particularly in doing research for required courses in the program. This site covers information literacy skills, with attention given to off-campus students enrolled in the program.

After going through each of the modules, users will be able to:

Differentiate between academic and non-academic sources, and learn to avoid general search engines such as "Google" in conducting academic, professional research.
Learn effective search strategies, applicable to university online catalogs, and academic & scholarly databases.
Select appropriate databases and resources for various topics and issues, especially those related to information science and technology.
Locate and make effective use of scholarly book and journal articles
Properly cite and document a variety of sources using APA and MLA styles.

System Requirements

This site is best viewed on 1200 x 800 screens, and computers with relatively fast connection speeds.
This site is compatible with these browsers: IE 4+, Netscape 5+, Firefox 1.0+, Safari, and Opera.
This page and site uses iframes, which will not work if your browser is set to disable the rendering of iframes, or to disallow scripts from communicating between frames. Please set your browser to enable frames.
This site contains occasional pop-up screens and Javascript. Make sure you turn off your pop-up blocker and enable Javascript.
Each tutorial is self-paced. Time to get through each module varies, but none should take more than 15 minutes. You will notice interactivity is involved at various times in each module.
Certain pages within this site contain PDF's (Portable Document Files), which you can read by dowloading for free Adobe Acrobat Reader.
If accessing this tutorial from off-campus, you may be directed to autheticate your web browser by entering your username and password first.

Web Site Designer and Implementer:
Richard Wisneski, BGSU library instructor and bibliographer.

Thanks to the following people for their suggestions and guidance:
Cathi Cardwell, Chair, BGSU Library Teaching & Learning
Carol Singer, BGSU library instructor and reference
Bur Shilling, Academic Administrator, Advanced Technological Education program