 The BC Libraries site, library.bc.edu, is your doorway to millions of potential sources. This video will show you the three most useful entry points on library.bc.edu, and pathways to finding sources from those entry points. Here are the three entry points. One, the main search bar, which leads to books, many articles, and potentially helpful web pages. Two, the Get Help link, which leads to 24-7 chat, email a librarian, the FAQ, and useful phone numbers. Three, this link to research guides, which are the treasure maps to over 700 databases and many other useful resources. The main search bar is a good place to begin searching. Suppose you want to research differences in health outcomes across race and class. If you don't already know an author name or book title, just start with your research topic, or some part of it. Use only a few words. The more words you use, the fewer results you'll get. First, you'll get a preview of results, including books, articles, and our website's best guesses about FAQ answers and web pages that might help. We'll return to the article search a little later. To see more books and more results, click on See All Items. You could scroll through the whole Books and More Results list, but that would be a lot to scroll through. Use limiters on the right to reduce the results to certain material types, subjects, or authors, among other options. To limit to eBooks, for instance, under Material Type, click eBooks. For more details about finding books, see the video Finding Books in the Catalog. Or you can limit your search to online content from the start. Careful, though, this could eliminate half or more of your total results. Here's a quick tip about searching. As you look through results for individual sources, also focus broadly on the titles, subject terms, and descriptions, both to learn more about the topic and to collect terms to use in more searches. Relevant titles might have even more useful language in the detailed description. Click on a title to expand it and note the subject terms and terms in the summary that you might use as keywords. To keep track of a title you might use as a source, log in and save it to your Favorites with the pushpin icon. Click to see your Favorites where you can even organize your sources into folders. If you're interested in articles, go back to the Preview page. Note how many articles there are. Because this list combines searches of many of our databases at once, the number and variety of articles can be overwhelming. Use limiters to reduce the list to more relevant articles. For more targeted searches of articles, we recommend using individual databases. To learn more about that, watch the Finding Articles with Databases video. We don't expect you to know how to do all this on your own. Use the Get Help menu to contact librarians via 24-7 chat, email, or phone. You can also access chat from many library web pages from the tab on the right. Chat is staffed by BC librarians 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 9 to 5 Friday, and 11 to 7 Saturday and Sunday. At other times, a chat service provides help. Use email if you're not sure who to contact. Staff will forward your email to the expert who can answer your question. If you prefer self-help, try the FAQ for policies and tips. Research guides are the secret treasure maps to BC library's resources. They're created by BC librarians and arranged by BC's major academic subjects. Think about which academic subject might have a useful perspective on your topic. If you were interested in, for instance, racial disparities of wealth, there could be relevant perspectives offered by scholars of business, history, political science, or sociology, among other fields. Click one, and you'll find links to more guides, article databases, and other resources like newspaper collections, streaming videos, and tips for searching. There are also help guides on many non-subject-related topics. Here you can find more videos like this one, and help with citing sources, finding newspapers, identifying scholarly sources, or automating citation with Zotero, and again, many, many others. Always remember, librarians are here to help you. Contact us via the Get Help link for individual help with any library question. Hope to hear from you soon.