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Skills at Library Essentials

Guides to search skills and using library research resources

This page is retiring!

Our Skills at Library content has moved, and this guide retired in August 2024. Although we will no longer be supporting and updating this guide, there's still a lot of useful information you can find here. We'll make sure all the tools and training saved here is given a new home before this guide officially retires.

Your search strategy

Before you start searching for information on a topic, it is best to plan your search strategy.

This does not have to be a long process, and can really help to improve your search. 

A search strategy will:

  • Make your search more efficient
  • Retrieve better quality, more relevant results
  • Save time