This student manual is designed to supplement a course for the enhancement of library research capabilities using the speech and hearing sciences as a subject base. It is divided into sections, each of which displays commands and features from a number of printed and computerized reference works. Section titles include: (1) "Syllabus"; (2) "Psychological Abstracts"; (3) "Index Medicus"; (4) "Science Citation Index"; (5) "Science Citation Index: Citation Searching"; (6) "Preparing To Retrieve Records by Computer"; (7) "MELVYL Database"; (8) "A MELVYL Search Using the FIND Command"; (9) "MELVYL MEDLINE"; (10) "MELVYL Current Contents; (11) "Science Citation Index CD-ROM"; and (12) "Government Publications." Appendices include a guide to MELVYL, MELVYL MEDLINE, and MELVYL Current Contents, a comparison chart of commands and features, and a search project description and list of topics. (DB)