This document provides guidance for students on conducting library research for a BADM 216 course. It outlines 5 key sources of data for research: statistics, reports, studies, polls, and articles. It also recommends 2 interviews. The document then discusses additional sources that can make research more impressive, such as audio, video, pictures and graphs. It provides information on where to find background information and data sources from the web, library databases, and specific databases for statistics, reports, studies, company and industry information. It emphasizes scheduling an appointment with the librarian for research help and planning research strategies in advance to save time.