Research and Innovation Centre (RINC)
@ Glebe CI
Explore - Investigate - Process - Create
Teacher-Librarian: Ms. A. Barber
Hours: 8:15-3:45
Hours are subject to change
Board Game Play
Mondays and Wednesdays at 3:00pm - 4:30pm
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Investigate
Design the Plan. Select Information. Formulate a Focus
Now you have a topic, some questions and the enthusiasm to begin your research.
How will you approach the research? Who can help you?
Design the Plan
Formulate a Focus
From your questions and investigation from tertiary and secondary sources, how do you need to tweak your investigation?
Think deeply!!
Move into specific resources away from the general.
Ask your peers, teacher or teacher-librarian for feedback.
Still unsure about what a database is or what you can get out of it? Watch this from NCSU.
Select Information
Are you using the best sources to answer your questions?
Questionable Websites
How do you know these are the best sources?
Consider the Currency, Relevancy, Authority, Accuracy and Purpose of your sources. That's the CRAAP* Test
Primary (original sources, statistics, photos, maps)
Secondary (how have others written and discussed your topic? How have they come to their conclusions?
Tertiary (encyclopedias, almanacs)
Use the web but remember books and things that are available in this library, at the Ottawa Public Library (OPL) and at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa.
Be sure to look through the databases as well. Click here for a video from Yavapai College Library
*The CRAAP test was devised at the Chico Campus of California State University.