You will use libraries throughout your academic career.
Many large universities have on-line catalog systems.
Now, they are converting the cards to on-line computer systems. So instead of spending hours looking up book titles, authors or subjects on cards, or titles of magazine and journal articles in huge reference books, we can type the title or author or a keword on a computer and the computer will tell us what the library has available. For this exercise we will do research in the Parks Library at Iowa State University. The Library Catalog is the name of the Iowa State University on-line catalog of books, journals, magazines, microfilm, video, and audio materials. You can access the Library Catalog through the internet from the ISU homepage, or go to the library and use it there.