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Everyone knows that research plays a big role in the life of every college student. In today’s internet world, finding the answers to those questions has become even easier. Assisting in that effort are the libraries at Muscatine, Scott and Clinton Community Colleges. Each of the libraries can point the way to many online resources. Here’s just some of what’s available:

Search Engines: Most people are probably already familiar with these sites. Simply type in what you are looking for and the site will present you with a multitude of related sites and information. Possibly the most popular of these is Google at www.google.com

Metasearches: These are nifty sites that actually go out and simultaneously search the information that is available on a number of different search engines. Dogpile, www.dogpile.com, for instance goes out and “retrieves” information from Google, Yahoo and others, and then provides the users of the “best of breed” from those many sites.

Librarians Index: The Librarians Index of the Internet, lii.org, allows the user to search a compilation of sites that have been personally selected by librarians.

INFOMINE: Compiled by the University of California and located at infomine.ucr.edu, INFOMINE is a unique Web resource featuring organized access to university level research and educational tools on the Internet. A virtual library, INFOMINE is notable

Tutorials: For more information about performing research on the web, there are many tutorials available that walk the user through the process. Two of these are Pandia Goalgetter: A Short and Easy Internet Search Tutorial, www.pandia.com/goalgetter, and Purdue University’s Searching the World Wide Web at owl.english.purdue.edu/internet/search