Library Post-Test

Please complete the Library Post-Test after you have used the tutorial and/or immediately after participating in a library instruction session. Please click on the Submit button at the bottom of the test to submit your answers.

Name: 

Course Name, Number, and Section, i.e. INST 105-02: 

Professor's Name: 

1. A list of materials used in writing a paper can be called

a bibliography

a resource list

a works cited list

all of the above

none of the above

2. In order to locate a specific journal article, you would look in

the library's online OPAL catalog

a research database

the web

an encyclopedia

3. When searching a computerized database, which search phrase will retrieve the MOST records?

alcohol AND college students

alcohol OR college students

alcohol NOT college students

effects of alcohol on college students

4.   A journal (or periodical or magazine) is probably scholarly if: the author’s credentials are listed to identify his/her expertise; there are footnotes and long bibliographies; there is an abstract at the beginning of the article; and the article is based on original research.

True

False

5. The following reference came from the end of a student paper.

Reuther, Robert. "The Democratic Aims of Service Learning." Educational Leadership Mar.
2003: 51-54.

Does it refer to

a book

a journal article

an internet site

none of the above

6. To obtain assistance in using the library

ask at the reference desk

ask a friend

don’t ask anyone; find it on your own

7. You have committed plagiarism if, without giving credit, you

cut a section from a web site and paste it into your paper

rewrite information from another source and use it in your paper

explain someone's ideas in your own words

all of the above

none of the above

8. The numbers PN 1997 .B743 and RC388 .M9 1990 are both

Library of Congress call numbers

Dewey Decimal call numbers

not call numbers at all

9.  A journal (or periodical or magazine) is probably popular if:  it is published weekly; it has advertising, particularly for consumer goods; and the articles are short.

True  

False.

10. What was the most valuable thing you learned in the library instruction session and/or from this tutorial?

11. What additional information, if any, do you wish was covered during the library instruction session and/or from this tutorial?

12. I am a:

Freshman

Sophomore

Junior

Senior

Graduate Student

Other

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