Finding your materials, part 2:
Do a combination catalog and shelf search

To an extent this may overlap the search you did when following the Checklist for Week One.

a) If you've followed the steps outlined so far, you'll have a clear(er) sense of your project. Now do another search the Library catalog. This will give you a sense of additional books and call number ranges that may be useful to you. If you're not clear on how this works, go back to the Checklist for Week One. And then review the discussion of call numbers.


b)
Now it's time to go back down to the stacks. Bring your list of books to find and call number ranges to check out. This time, you'll be treating the books differently. You'll be doing a careful evaluation of the books you find. And you'll begin to "snowball"--techniques that are outlined in the next two sections.