 Hello, my name is Sherry Saines. I'm the subject librarian for these social sciences at Alden Library of Ohio University. I'd like to introduce you to the Library homepage. The Library homepage is organized so that the things you need to use the most are most prominent on the page. They're organized here in these dark green tabs across the middle. The first tab is Articles Plus. Articles Plus is a search engine that searches almost everything on our library's website all at once. The good thing about that is that you get thousands and thousands of hits on whatever subject you put in that box. The bad thing is you get thousands and thousands and thousands of hits on whatever subject you put in that box. Discerning what to read and what's the good stuff is something that a librarian can help you with. Articles Plus covers almost all of our databases, everything in our catalog, and everything in Ohio Link, which is all of the libraries in Ohio, all of the college and academic libraries in Ohio. That gives you access to 50 million books in the state of Ohio that you can get to. Click, click, put in your name. We'll bring it here. You check it in and out like any other book. Alice's Catalog, on the other hand, is the catalog to my library. It's the catalog to Ohio University Libraries and Alden Library. It tells you what's in my building. It tells you whether it's there today. If I'm looking for books, I can find them in Articles Plus. But if I want to know what's on the shelf that I can walk to now, Alice is more efficient way to find books. So think, Articles Plus for Articles, Alice Catalog for Books. Databases is where we list all the databases that we subscribe to. We subscribe to hundreds of databases. Each field of study has its own set of databases, and they are organized here by subject. Each of these is a place that I can look for yet more articles in the field of philosophy in this example. I would have to open this database, search it, come back to this page, open this database, search it, and come back to this page. I cannot search this list of databases all at once. The closest I can come to that is Articles Plus. But if I want to find and use a single database in my field, I use the Database tab to find it and search it. Course Reserves, this is where we list the things that your instructor has set aside for your class. We keep these behind the desk on the fourth floor. Usually they're, for example, a textbook that the professor wants to make sure everybody can get hold of. You check it out, you use it in the library, usually for two hours you hand it back so that the next guide can get at it. Subjecting Course Guides is where your librarian has organized the most important resources of the field. Every librarian is assigned a certain number of majors or colleges to be the expert researcher for. For example, I'm the researcher expert for women, gender, and sexuality studies, and here I have organized the most important resources. This is a more efficient way of discovering which databases are the most important in a field. These are recommended by the expert librarian. Also you'll find on these resource guides websites, lists of associations, statistics, things that are important to research in that field. The last tag here is the digital archives. That means things that we have digitized out of our special collections. I can search these things by subject and what I discover here are articles in student newspapers, college yearbooks, college catalogs, a whole host of collections of papers, books, and manuscripts that we have digitized are searchable here and available full text. So those are the six tabs that have the most searched items in them. We realize that this is confusing and you may not know how to proceed, which is why right here, right in the middle of the page, is this thing called chat. There's a librarian on the other end of that chat box every open hour of the library and we are just waiting to answer your questions. Please let us help you.