Here are a few basics to get you started doing research in Gelman Library. This is not meant to be an exhaustive guide, only a starting point. Anything you find here, you can find in more detail on the library's homepage or in the guides in the library itself.
First stop is the Library Homepage.
Aladin where you have a choice searching the catalogs or databases. How to conduct a basic search The terms you use are important. If you do not get results on your first try, rearrange your terms, narrow or widen the fields. For example, a search on films and cyborgs yielded no results. A search on only cyborgs yielded several choices, one of which was cyborgs and motion pictures.