 Now that we have downloaded, registered, and synced our Zotero accounts, we are ready to start getting organized. First, open the Zotero application. On the left-hand side, we will see a My Library bucket. Zotero can be wonderful, but we have to stay organized to get the most value out of it. The first step in that process is creating collections for each class we are attending or major research paper we are working on. Now, let's make a new collection by clicking the yellow folder icon. For example, say I am taking Social Theory, so I'll call this folder SOCY2215. Let's make a second folder for my History Core class. We will call that one HIST1001. We can continue to make as many collections as we want and nest our folders if desired. Now let's find some sources. Head to the BC Library catalog and enter a search. For this example, we will search for Social Theory. Oh, this book looks good. Click the title to view the record and make sure it's the kind of thing we are looking for. In the record, we will see the title, author, and where it may be located in the library or online. From here, how do we get this into Zotero? This is where the plugin we downloaded comes in handy. Go to that Zotero connector in our URL bar. Click it, and we will see a pop-up that indicates which folder that citation will go in. If we want to put it in a different folder right after we click the Zotero button, click the drop-down arrow to select a different folder. Next, we may need some scholarly articles. Let's go back to our original search from the library webpage. This article looks good, so we'll click the title to get the article record. For articles, it is good housekeeping to head over to where the actual article lives on the publisher's website. In this instance, view the find online section and follow the access link. Then we can look at the article to see if we really want it. Notice the Zotero icon is not a book, but a piece of paper. We will click that, and it will pull this article over into our Zotero. Now, Zotero will attempt to copy over the full text if the library has the PDF of this resource. We can repeat this whole process in Google Scholar or any other scholarly database here at BC. Keep in mind, Zotero won't always know what kind of resource it's looking at, but it's typically pretty good at telling what is a book, an article, a video, a news periodical, or otherwise. Just be sure to double-check Zotero citations for accuracy. Wherever we find a source, remember we can use our browser plugin to collect the information we need to start making a citation in Zotero.