Finding a reference book

Doing research can be as easy as you want it to be, or it can be as hard as you make it. Although a bit boring at times, research is needed in just about every profession known to man. Scientists conduct research for numerous reasons. Those reasons include cures, vaccines, boredom, etc… College students conduct research for papers for the most part. Ask any college student about the more challenging parts of college that you don’t find out about until after you’re actually ENROLLED in one. The most common response will be research papers. The crazy thing about research papers is that professors actually have you do research on material that, often times, have no history! Sorry for the off task statement, but when conducting research, you have to take shots at your professor. Anyway, back to topic.On the flip side, the majority of topics you need to research for school papers, has already been written about in numerous mediums, such as in reference books.  When  this second party conducts this research, it is often stored in a reference book. Finding a reference book has been made easy thanks to recent schooling (THANK YOU JESUS). These few steps will get you to a reference book.

• ·        Go to MSU libraries online
• ·         Scroll down to “Quicklinks” then over to “RACERTrac”  
• ·         You’ll see a search screen, click on the “advanced” tab
• ·         Scroll down to location and click “reference”

After all of this has taken place, you can begin your search. The results that show up will ALL be reference books. That, my friends, is a poor man’s guide to finding a reference book.