Hello, everyone! So, I've mentioned once or twice that librarians love research, right? Bearing that in mind, something that is incredibly important to me is making sure students have access to quality research materials. Now, I know it's oh-so-tempting to send them to the Internet and have them Google their hearts out for information. But, as you all know, the interwebs is a fickle place - full of everything from high quality information, to completely false information, to everything in between. I've heard the grumbling from students when I talk with them year after year about evaluating websites (a conversation for another post), and the good news is that there's a way for them to easily find quality information...databases! Now for my quick spiel on databases. They are collections of authoritative, reliable information and are a paid subscription service. Databases have information from reputable sources from a variety of formats. Some databases have original cont...