Welcome to the Reeves Library Research Tutorial The Hound Hunt was created for Moravian Greyhounds (and others) doing research in Reeves Library. It is intended to Help Our Users Needing Direction by explaining, demonstrating, and providing opportunities to practice research skills. Users can click on the "next" button at the bottom of each page to follow the hunt page-by-page, use the links at the top of each page to go to parts of a particular section, or use the table of contents links on the right side of each page to go to a particular section. Exit the hunt at any time by clicking on the "exit" button at the bottom of each page. Section 1: Topic Selection Tips for choosing and focusing a topic Strategies for creating and refining a research question Review Section 2: Source Selection Source options Books - Reference and stacks Periodicals - Newspapers, Magazines, Journals Web sources Primary/Secondary sources Searching tools Review Exercise Section 3: Online Catalog Searching Searching for books in Reeves Searching options Fields Exercise Finding books in Reeves Section 4: Database Searching Databases defined Concepts and Keywords Database choice Boolean Operators and Truncation Database Search Exercises Search Strategy Review Search Strategy Exercise Section 5: Web Searching The World Wide Web Internet Myths URLs Search Engines vs. Subject Directories Exercise Precision searching on the Web Exercise Section 6: Web Evaluation The nature of academic sources Evaluation criteria Specialized Directories Organization searching Review Section 7: Generating and Documenting Scholarship Generating scholarship Scholar Speak Recognizing and avoiding plagiarism Distinguishing between citations Exercise © Moravian College and Moravian Theological Seminary Reeves Library, greyhound image © Morgan Conn, used with permission. Site designed by Ashley Garrett and Dorothy Glew.