The main Reference Desk is located on the first floor and a librarian there can offer assistance. A second Reference Desk is located in the Torgersen Hall Tower on the fourth floor. Many of our Subject Specialists have web pages listing suggested sources for finding information. Print Indexes Traditional print indexes, such as Education Index or Engineering Index , are being used less frequently since so many of these indexes are now available through computer resources. However, they are still an excellent source of information and are especially handy to use when the electronic versions are temporarily unavailable.
Some subject indexes are only available in the print format.
The Library may not subscribe to a particular electronic index or it may not be available electronically. Another reason to use the print index may be that the time period covered by the electronic index does not extend to the time period you are researching. InfoTrac's Expanded Academic ASAP can provide coverage from 1980 to the present on topics of general interest. If you wanted to do research on time periods prior to 1980, you would probably want to use Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature , which provides coverage from 1900 to the present for the same type of topics. You should keep in mind that there may be other databases in the library related to your subject but not on the list.