Revitalizing Your Research

How many times have you been told,"just go to the library" when you're working on a research paper or some other type of project? How many times do you actually go? Going to the library really does help when writing papers. Most teens, like myself, enjoy milking the internet for the most information we can get when it comes to writing research papers - but after completing my 8-page term paper for Government, I've been converted.

Books were the answer to all of my prayers in research heaven. Not only was finding my information easier (card catalog see fig. 1), but the information was reliable. Internet sources often lack authors, editors, publishers and the essential information needed to complete a respectable ''works cited" page. So when you teacher says, "go to the library" they're sending you in the right direction. We may be a small library, but we have a multitude of research tools to help you complete you school work.

Fig. 1