They may also use a variety of electronic sources, including those found on the Internet and the World Wide Web. Finding each of these sources of information requires following a different procedure. This means that a person needing a book or article must complete a form requesting it, submit the form to a librarian, and wait for the librarian to find the material and provide it. In order to know that, you must use catalogs and indexes. The library contains so many materials that it would be impossible to find things without them.
Most people are familiar with card catalogs , which can be used to find books in many libraries.
MVCC's library no longer has a card catalog. Instead, books can be located by using a computer catalog. Additional information of various kinds can also be located through the use of the Internet and the World Wide Web. In later chapters we will learn how to use these tools. Mbola used some of them before she wrote her term paper.