Welcome to Krueger Library!
Watch these videos to learn about library resources available to all Warriors.

• Krueger Library, an introduction. Find your way around the building
• Library website 101. A get-started guide to using the library online
• Find articles on reserve. Find an article your professor placed on reserve
• Find articles. Get scholarly articles using library databases
• Find articles in full text. Get to the full text of scholarly articles in library databases using the Find It button
• Locate books on a certain topic. Use the library catalog to find books on your research topic
• Locate a specific book. Use the library catalog to find a book if you know the title
• Locate a specific article. Already have a citation? Find the article in a flash
• Read a call number. How to get to that book you need using the number from the catalog

Didn't find what you needed here? Ask a Librarian!

We get a lot of questions at the library!
These are some of the most frequently asked.

• Start my research? Overwhelmed? It's okay! Here are some tips on how to begin
• Think of good keywords? Some ideas on how to define your keywords
• Develop a good search strategy? 5 search strategies to apply to your research (UW-Madison)
• Identify scholarly articles? Tell the difference between popular and scholarly sources (UW-Madison)
• Evalute a Web site? Key ways to identify appropriate websites (UW-Madison)
• Cite my sources? Make research easier -- learn how and why to cite your sources

Didn't find your question here? Ask a Librarian!

You have over 100 databases to choose from for your research.
How do they all work? These videos should help get you started.

• What are databases? Get a general overview in Databases 101
• Why not Google it? Google's great, just not for academic research
• EBSCOhost. Many databases, including Academic Search, in different areas, with one easy interface
• SAGE. Educational, nursing, business, sociology, composites, health and communication journals
• ProQuest. Historical newspapers, databases in education, sciences, public affairs and more
• WorldCat. Find books in libraries worldwide
• Lexis-Nexis. News, company information, legal cases and more
• PubMed. More than 22 million citations in the biomedical sciences

Need more guidance with your database searches? Ask a Librarian!

Dealing with library technology while doing research?
Don't let it drive you away! Here are a few tech tips and tricks.

• Accessing library databases. Authenticate to our databases while off campus or in the dorms
• Inserting footnotes. In Microsoft Word 2007 and Word for Mac 2011
• Using RefWorks. Managing your citations, building a bibliography, and more (RefWorks)

Need more help with the tech gremlins? Use the Information Gallery help guides or Ask a Librarian!