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Scholarly books and journal articles are meant for an academic audience;. Popular sources are books, magazines, newspapers, and websites meant for a general audience. Trade and professional resources are meant for practicing artists, architects, designers, or business people.
Here are some ways to tell if an article is scholarly:
Much of the content that you find through the library is of a scholarly nature. To find scholarly articles, conduct research in a scholarly database such as JSTOR, or use "peer-reviewed" or "scholarly journals" limiters in databases such as ProQuest to refine search results to scholarly articles only.
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) published a Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, which lists six frames (or goals) for undergraduate learning.