Intended to familiarize students with the Melville Library at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and provide guidelines for conducting research in American politics, this workbook is divided into 10 chapters: (1) The Author-Title Catalog; (2) How To Find Books on Your Topic Using the Subject Catalog; (3) General Periodical Literature; (4) Finding Scholarly Journal Articles; (5) Newspapers; (6) Reference Books for Current Awareness; (7) Government Documents; (8) Sources of Statistics; (9) Public Opinion Surveys; and (10) Computerized Information Retrieval. Each chapter is accompanied by review questions and questions that might appear on a practicum examination. (SD)