Meet Martha Attridge Bufton in the following video.

Pick a research topic

• Read your syllabus (assignment instructions).
• Pick a topic that interests you and meets the assignment instructions.
• Narrow or broaden the scope of your topic so that it is "doable."
  • What's scope? Scope refers to the "people, places and things" or "who, what, when and where" that you are studying. For example, Canada or another country? Children or adults? Education or child protection services?

Identify key concepts

• Use this worksheet to write out your research topic and identify key ideas.

Do an initial search for academic sources

• Here are some videos to help you pick the right search engines and sources for your assignment.
  • Beware of filter bubbles:  What to know about Google and filtered information.
  • Search faster, search smarter: How to search using your key concepts.

• Use the CRAP test to evalute the quality of online sources.

Google Doc for CHST 2003

Find books

In the search field on the library home page, use keywords to find books and ebooks (i.e., use your key concepts to search for relevant materials).

A sample of child development and child studies related library books (in print)

• Children and play
• Every image, every child.  Internet-facilitated child sexual abuse in Canada
• Developmental milestones of young children
• Child development at the intersection of emotion and cognition
• Media and youth: a developmental perspective
• Peer groups and children's development

Children's literature (print and audiobooks)

The library has a growing collection of children's books, both classic and traditional. Many of these books are located on the third floor, in the PZ section. We also have a collection of audiobooks, which also contains children's classics such as Anne of Green Gables. To search for more audiobooks, use the RBDigital database.

Our contemporary titles are collected across five major themes:

• Disability and childhood
• Indigenous children and communities
• LGBTQ2+
• Race
• Sex education

Here is a list of books (with call numbers) that have been or will be added to the collection in 2019.

Use your library account to save searches

• Save your favorite searches for easy reference so that you can run these searches on demand.
• Receive email search alerts when material has been added to the collection matching your preferred searches.

How?

•     Log into your library account and search the catalogue. Click on the Save Search option to save a search.
•     Return to your account.
•     Click on the Saved Searches button to view your preferred search list. If no Saved Searches button displays, you have not yet saved any searches.
•     To receive alerts when new material arrives, click on Mark for Email.
•     To run the search on demand, use the link in the Search column.
•     To remove searches from your list, use the boxes in the Mark to Remove column , and then click on "update list."

 Use our Citing your sources page to link to our APA guide, instructional videos and more.