One skill that you will find useful is surfing the library digital data bases for newspaper articles, journal articles and data/statistics.  This is a lot like using Google but with the difference that 1) a variety of sources are only available through paid subscription and the library pays that for you, and 2) you can hone your search very sharply using search terms that surf entire articles and not just title, author and/or abstract.  These buttons will give you 1) a history of how information has been stored and transmitted over the millennia--the purpose of this is to drive home to you how important the changes we are now experiencing are, 2)--more to the point, a second button will give you the basics skills needed to access the library's various data bases, and 3) a third button will begin introducing you to search term strategies that will make your search successful.