1. Determine your information needs

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This module will take approximately 45 minutes to complete.

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

• define your topic to provide focus
• do background reading to increase familiarity with your topic
• find known items
• understand call numbers
• identify key concepts and map your ideas
• judge the appropriate quantity of information required
• differentiate between types of information sources and publications and judge their usefulness to the task at hand, specifically:
• differentiate between primary and secondary sources
• distinguish between popular, trade and scholarly periodicals.

First, you need to define your topic.

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