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Library Catalogs

The Austrailian National Library (http://www.nla.gov.au/)
A searchable index of the national Library of Australia Web site, including a link to the National Library of Australia’s Online Public Access Catalogue.

Internet Public Library (http://www.ipl.org/)
The Internet Public Library offers an online ready-reference collection, a searchable database, links to over 20,000 books, and reference librarians to answer individual questions.

Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html)
A searchable index to sources available from the Library of Congress home page.

LlibWeb (http://lists.webjunction.org/libweb/)

Berkeley Digital Library’s list of library servers available on the World Wide Web.

Library and Archives Canada (http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/index-e.html)
Available in both French and English, Library and Archives Canada is designed to provide easy access to texts, photographs, and other documents relating to Canada and Canadians.

Yahoo!’s List of Library Links (http://dir.yahoo.com/Reference/libraries)
Links to libraries sorted by content area , including lists of academic libraries; music, literature, art, and Native American resources; and maps, special collections, and much more. Many of the libraries offer searchable indexes or online sources.

Writing an Overview of Your Topic

This is an outline of how your overview should be structured. Actually, you can write your overview as a series of questions and answers. This is due Friday.

• What is your topic?
• Explain your topic in simple terms.
• Why have you chosen it?
• What’s the most interesting aspect of your subject?
• Why do you think others might be interested in this?
• What do you already know about it?
• How did you learn what you know?
• What’s the most recent thing you’ve learned about it?
• What do you hope to learn about it?
• Why do you want to learn more?
• What’s the most important thing you might learn from your research?