Describe your topic or problem. Include specific information
about how current the information should be, any time periods or
geographic
regions involved, names of key individuals or other details.
What do you think are the key words that describe your information
concern?
How will you use this information? Is it for a paper or school
project? Is there a deadline? Is this a personal
interest?
Will you make professional use of this information?
How much information to you expect? A few papers, an
exhaustive
search, a list of places you can pursue some other time, some Web
sites?
Do you have access to a computer? Do you do Web searching?
List the libraries, Websites, and other sources (databases, people,
organizations, etc.) that you've already consulted
If you've already worked on this topic, where did you get stuck or
decide
that you'd like to have additional help?
Anything else that you think would be helpful for me to know?
mholland@umich.edu
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