The ninth chapter of The Bedford Researcher, titled Searching for Information with Print Resources, is split into three sections. The first section goes briefly into how to look through library shelves to find sources for your topic. This section also suggests using interlibrary loans to get materials you will need for your topic delivered to your library from other libraries. The second section then goes into using the libraries periodicals room to find more sources, specifically by going through the sources used by the periodical’s writer.
The third and final section of this chapter goes into extreme detail for using a library’s reference room to gather sources. It begins this section with having you look through library bibliographies and knowing what the difference is between different bibliographies, such as what a trade bibliography contains versus a general bibliography. This section then goes into how to locate different bibliographies, and looking through indexes to find what sources are used in many different periodicals at once. After that, this section finishes off the chapter by mentioning a number of other areas to check in a library to find more sources, such as handbooks, encyclopedias, and almanacs.
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