Print materials

Electronic materials

Real people

Other

• Information books (Look in the non-fiction section of the library - 000's to 999's)
• Reference books (such as encyclopedias, almanacs, atlases, gazeteers)
• Magazines and magazine indexes
• Newspapers
• Vertical files of information (ask the librarian)
• Telephone books
• Primary resources such as diaries, journals, and stories of real people
• Biographies and autobiographies

Use the OPAC to do subject searches.

Compare search engines with a look at this page.

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Talk to your parents, teachers, and librarian about who might be a good source of information.

Go to a business that deals with your subject and ask the people there.

Use e-mail or listservs to ask the people who they know that might be an authority. Here's a place to get help about your topic.

Call people that you identify from the yellow pages in the telephone book.

Yourself! You can keep journals of your own, make up surveys or interviews to ask other people questions, and design experiments to find out the answer to your question yourself.

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