Learning Resource Center

Research Help

As a KCC student, you have access to many types of help for your research.

Ask a Librarian

You have access to reference help by e-mail or phone from reference librarians at :

Portland Community College
Klamath County Library
Oregon Institute of Technology

Search Engines for Online Research
Many search engines and subject directories are available for your research. Click the links below to visit a few of the most popular.

Meta Search Engines
Meta search engines search the results of other search engines. This can save you time, but also requires more planning of the search.
Meta search engines produce more results, but may require a better phrased search to produce fewer, more relevant, results.

Subject Directories
Subject directories organize results into subject categories.
This can simplify searching if you have a broad idea of the information you want, but don't have specific search words in mind to make the search.

Visual Search Engine
For searchers who are very visually oriented, a visual "mind map" style search engine might be a perfect fit. Check out the Kart00 Visual Search Engine.

TILT: The Information Literacy Tutorial
TILT is an interactive research tutorial which will help you plan and research your topic.
Click on the TILT link to begin the tutorial. TILT is divided into three modules, so you can leave it and start where you left off when you come back.

TILT

L-Net Virtual Reference
L-Net is 24 hour per day, 7 days a week, virtual reference. You can instant message with a reference librarian in Oregon at any time.
You can also e-mail a question to the reference librarian and receive an answer within 24 hours.
L-Net is a great resource when you need specific information, and have tried all the other information sources you havee access to as a KCC student

Click on the L-Net Link to get started using this terrific resource!

L-Net