Librarian
Identify and Develop your Topic
♦ Look at your syllabus for topic ideas.
- Try These Firsta list of online resources that will help you find background information about your topic
♦ Talk to your instructor or librarian.
Identify keywords, synonyms, and related words.
Examples: use "Harriet Tubman" or "Ida B,Wells" or "Benazir Bhutto" or "Ellen Johnson Sirleaf" (with quotation marks) as your keyword search.
- Catalog (Penn State University Libraries catalog) This link opens in a new windowfind books, videos, periodicals, maps, music, digitized works, microfilm titles, and other formats that are in the University Libraries' collections. Note: you will not find articles from magazines and journals in The CAT.
- LionSearch This link opens in a new windowan integrated search of books, e-books, research articles, newspaper articles, and other publications.