CAP 220: Fundamentals of Public Relations: Home
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This guide's purposes are to: help you learn more about Advertising & Public Relations while using information, provide resources for doing research in the CAP 220 course Fundamentals of Public Relations, help you save time and energy, and successfully complete your assignments. Do better professionally by making successful communication plans!
Each discipline or field of study has different values about types of information and procedures for research, so the resources here will be different from those you might have used in other courses in fields like Writing or Biology.
For additional resources, see the Business, Education, & other Library subject guides.
Library Basics
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How to Find a BookThis video walks you through the process of searching for a book and identifying its location.
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Building a Search StrategyThis tutorial explains how to best develop a search strategy before searching the catalog or databases. These concepts are universal and apply to any catalog, database, or internet search engine.
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While many articles & ebooks are online, some are in the robotic book retrieval system (official name = Automated Storage Retrieval System or ASRS) behind the Service Desk on the 1st floor.
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