Library Pre-Test Please complete this Library Pre-Test prior to participating in a library instruction session or using the tutorial. 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. To obtain assistance in using the library ask at the reference desk ask a friend don’t ask anyone; find it on your own 2. 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 3. 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 4. 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 5. 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 6. 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 7. 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 8. 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 9. 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 10. I am a: Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior Graduate Student Other Please click on Submit to record your answers before using the Reset button
Library Pre-Test
Please complete this Library Pre-Test prior to participating in a library instruction session or using the tutorial. 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. To obtain assistance in using the library
ask at the reference desk ask a friend don’t ask anyone; find it on your own
ask at the reference desk
ask a friend
don’t ask anyone; find it on your own
2. 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
Library of Congress call numbers
Dewey Decimal call numbers
not call numbers at all
3. 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
a bibliography
a resource list
a works cited list
all of the above
none of the above
4. 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
a book
a journal article
an internet site
5. 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
alcohol AND college students
alcohol OR college students
alcohol NOT college students
effects of alcohol on college students
6. 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
True
False
7. 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.
8. 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
the library's online OPAL catalog
a research database
the web
an encyclopedia
9. 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
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
10. I am a:
Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior Graduate Student Other
Freshman
Sophomore
Junior
Senior
Graduate Student
Other
Please click on Submit to record your answers before using the Reset button