The document provides guidance to a student researching information about Botswana for a school assignment. It outlines key topics of information to find, including geography, history, government, economy, culture, and people. It then guides the student through different library databases and online reference sources where they can find details on these topics about Botswana, including images of famous individuals. The student is shown how to search within databases and online references, as well as view, print, email and download relevant articles and information to complete their assignment.

1. So you have to do a… Nationality Report

3. Where do I begin?

4. …but I don’t know the title of a book! Why not try a subject search instead?

5. Look for books about Botswana Type in the subject and then click the GO button.

6. Some of these are too old… Do I have some great stuff to show you!

7. Check out the Library’s databases! There is something here to help with any assignment.

8. Begin with Try the Kids Edition first.

9. Click on the continent

10. I don’t see Botswana! The World Edition covers additional countries, lets try that.

11. Whew, there it is! You’re on your way to completing your assignment. Just click on your country.

12. Here is the main page about Botswana

13. For more detail click

14. Culture Grams is easy to use… Make sure to check out the links at the top of the page.

15. Here are some recipes

16. And a list of famous people But I want a picture of one of these people. How can I find that?

17. Go back to the Library’s databases! Let’s try another database – this one is called Biography Reference Bank.

18. Whose picture can we find? Let’s find out what famous people from Botswana are included here and compare that list with the ones in Culture Grams.

19. Enter the country name in the “Place of Origin” box, then click the Start button.

20. Here are the results Two of the people from the CultureGrams list are on this database with pictures! What does “view more images” under Khama, Sir Sereste mean?

21. Click on “view more images” You have four different pictures to choose from.

22. Okay, but what else is there?

23. Go back to the Library’s databases! This time we’ll look at the Gale Virtual Library. This includes a selection of electronic reference books.

24. How does this work? You can click the + sign to see what titles we have on a subject, or search all the books from the find box.

25. So what is there on Botwana? This time we’ll look use the find box.

26. There are 11 results Click on the first result.

27. You can view it this way…

28. Or as a pdf file

29. Whatever you choose… You can print, e-mail, or donwload the article. You can also use the links above the article to move to the next selection.

30. Here is the second source

31. So what do you think? This is great - I’m going to keep my library card handy!