• Identify common purposes and audiences for student research.
  
• Identify an information need - i.e., the gap between what one knows and what one needs to know.
  
• Explain how different information needs may require different sources of information.
  
• Use an information source to identify keywords.
  
• Formulate an appropriate search topic.
  
• Explain that information is being organized by people such as librarians and that it is not all located in one place.
  
• Distinguish among scholarly journals, trade publications, and magazines.
  
• Define a citation.
  
• Identify the parts of a citation.
  
• Explain how references cited by previous researchers can be used to facilitate current research.
  
• Find information in the library catalog using various access points such as author and keyword.
  
• Define Boolean operators.
  
• Use boolean operators to narrow and broaden searches.
  
• Define a call number and explain its function.