Book excerpt: Who should do library research and reporting? This book, Checklists for Doing Library Research and Reporting, is written primarily for those beginning college students who are doing library research and reporting for the first time. It has been planned to free the students from uncertainties and to give them confidence in their own assignment by giving them a clear understanding of the basic sources and fundamental principles underlying good research and writing. What this book is all about? The ultimate goal of this guide is to help students become successful and independent college researchers and research writers. To achieve this goal, the best way to learn how is from those source writers cited in this book and what they have said or written about research and academic writing. This book is a road map to scholarly research and writing, a way to reach the ultimate goal. The book of checklist is a result of the author of this book's intensive research and a compilation of other experts' concepts, ideas, and research techniques, aimed at information finding and research writing. Parts 1 5 of this book deals with basic library research techniques, parts 6 9 discuss advanced library research techniques. This book should be useful in the following different ways: (1) it works as a pool of guidelines, methods, and procedures selected from various sources on research and writing not available in a single document; (2) it serves as a resource guide that will allow students to choose and use library materials at their own rate; (3) it works as an information consultant or guardian to the individual who will constantly do library research and reporting; (4) it offers as a supplementary aid that constitutes four books in one: (a) introduction to research, (b) educational research, (c) access to information, and (d) research and report writing; (5) it helps students learn and gain research and writing skills. More importantly, the students can use this guide and checklist alone where no instructor is available. After studying this text checklist, the students will be able to comprehend the information given by the experts in this book and add their own ideas to create the best possible results of their own tasks.