The library's homepage - centenary.edu/library - is pretty easy to remember. But you don't have to, because you can also google us, follow any of the links there form this very guide, or find links to us from Canvas and the Centenary webpage. We are well-connected.
We are also eager to make finding things as easy as possible.
Did you know that you can search for anything right from our homepage? You can search as broadly or as narrowly as you want, for all content types, right from the search box. This new search feature is called "Omnia," because it provides a simple way to quickly see pretty much all of what kinds of research tools are available for your question, interest, or topic. All you need to do is search, much as you would when using Google. Our search box looks a bit like it, too.
https://discovery.ebsco.com/c/acr6nw/
You know, search is not automatic or mindless. A discovery layer like Omnia enables you to search for any number of item types with just keywords, but a good search involves some real thinking and usually a fair amount of experimentation. It's not enough to identify a word or two that you think fits what your looking for. That's a great place to start, but ideally, you'll use your first set of results to reflect on the initial search, and then make changes based on what you are seeing.
It can help to develop a rubric, or standard approach, for evaluating your search results. This doesn't need to be complicated. For example, if you have three unique terms in your initial search, take a moment and think about how you are INFLECTING those terms. Do your terms have only one basic meaning, or can they refer to multiple concepts? What ambiguities lurk in your word choice? This is one thing you'll always want to check, along with other easily notable parameters like publication date, availability of full text, and reputability/trustworthiness of the content creators.