Using the Blue Tabs at the top of this guide
- The Home tab is the Welcome page. It also provides basic information about the International Baccalaureate (IB) programs,and a link and video about the Free Library of Philadelphia (FLP)
- For help in creating your own Research Plan, see the Creating a Research Plan tab. This tab includes a link to an example Research Plan, as well as a link to a blank plan that you can download and use with your own topics.
- The Book Sources tab contains information about searching the FLP library catalog for books and e-books, as well as searching the e-book database directly.
- The Magazine/Journal Articles tab contains tips for quickly evaluating relevant articles, databases for finding journal articles, and information on how to locate the full text of articles in journals, etc.
- The Interlibrary Loan tab explains how the FLP can borrow materials from other libraries for your use.
- The Style Guide Resources tab contains tools to help you formulate your citations in MLA style.