Library and Information Literacy Instruction

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Are there other words which might be used to describe your topic? Identify synonyms or related concepts. Television and media are related concepts, as are stress and anxiety.
Want to combine your synonyms into one search to save time and energy? Combine like concepts with the word OR (e.g., media or television).
Are there other forms of your word that you might also use? Use truncation to retrieve variant forms of a word (e.g., the word television, truncated after the letter "s" [televis*] retrieves television, televisions, and televise!).

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