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COE 202: Second Year Seminar: Getting Started

Use this guide to find resources related to the College of Education Second Year Seminar

UNLV Libraries Quick Search

Quick Search is the UNLV Libraries' broadest search tool. This tool searches for books and e-books, journal articles, videos, newspaper articles and more in hundreds of UNLV's databases and collections. 

Access Quick Search using the search box on the UNLV Libraries Home Page or here

Getting Started with the Library Website

Tutorial: Understanding Information Sources

As you know through your experiences in navigating the web and exploring social media, we live in a very information-rich society. Information, however, comes in many different forms and is created for many different purposes: for example, a social media post functions differently from a newspaper article. This tutorial will develop your skills in understanding different kinds of information sources.

You will learn:

  • how to distinguish between popular and scholarly sources
  • how to identify primary, secondary, and tertiary sources

Click the image below to launch the tutorial!

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Tutorial: Finding Scholarly and Popular Sources

One of the best ways to get informed about a topic is by exploring and reading different perspectives from a variety of sources. This tutorial will develop your skills in finding different kinds of information sources using UNLV Libraries Quick Search.

You will learn:

  • how to use filters to find popular and scholar sources
  • how to access popular sources through UNLV subscriptions

Click the image below to launch the tutorial!

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