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Almanac: |
Facts and statistics |
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Atlas: |
Maps and population |
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Card Catalog: |
What is in the library and where to find it |
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CD-ROM: |
Indexes to periodicals, documents, etc. |
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Encyclopedia: |
General information on people, places, animals and things |
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Reader's Guide: |
Index to magazines |
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Definition: |
A strategy is a plan of action for searching to find the information you want. |
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Broad or unfocused: |
Teaching about AIDS in school is good. |
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Narrow or focused: |
Will incorporating AIDS education into the middle school curriculum reduce the spread of the disease? |
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Synonyms: |
Words that mean the same or almost the same thing |
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Thesaurus: |
A book that contains words and their synonyms |
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Related terms: |
Broader and narrower concepts (Example: drug abuse, Alcoholism, Marijuana) |
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Variant spellings: |
Words that can be spelled two ways. |
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Truncation: |
Shortening a word to its root form (Example: comput for compute, computing, computer, or computers) |
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