- Required Information

Your next step is to think about what you need to get out of the information.

• What purpose do you have? What are you going to use the information for? Are you writing an essay and if so, what are the requirements for it?
• How broad is your subject? It is important to clearly define your subject.
• How recent does your material need to be?

Example:

You are writing a small essay and looking for statistics and other material about the emigration from Sweden. You also want to find fiction, preferably in Swedish, about emigration and settlement in a new country.