FYS 100 -- Exploration & Understanding Our World (Brylawski): Getting Started

• Read the assignment carefully and make sure you understand your professor's requirements.
• Brainstorm - look at textbooks, reference books, journals & magazines, class notes, and bounce ideas off friends.
• Start your research early.
• Is there too much or too little information?
• Be creative.

Print Sources:

• World Explorers and Discoverers, 910.922 W927 1998
• Use cataLION, Albright's online public access catalog to identify books and videos on your topic. Use keywords like explorers or innovators or pioneers
• Subject encyclopedias in a specific field can help you identify explorers and innovators. Search the online catalog by typing in the field and then the word encyclopedias. For example:
  • science and encyclopedias
  • theater and encyclopedias
  • art and encyclopedias
• General history books can describe the environment in which the explorer or innovator operated

Another source for locating books is a database called WorldCat. This is a catalog for thousands of libraries. Use this if you cannot find enough books at Albright. Library staff will do everything possible to get your materials to you in a timely fashion. Click the Getting Your Materials tab above for instructions.

Online Sources:

• Credo Reference