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HST 290: PRACTICE OF HISTORY –
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN THE U.S.
Dr. Candice Bredbenner
Ms. Beth Kaylor
[email protected]
Your Current Research Skills?
How would you rate your current research skills?
Strong
Satisfactory
Needs improvement
Poor
What causes you the most anxiety/confusion/frustration?
What are your favorite sources for historical research?
Our plan for the library sessions
Review Research Guide for this course.
Explore various finding aids.
Learn to identify primary sources.
Become familiar with special services.
Interlibrary
Loan
Ask a librarian
Where to get help
Learning Commons Help Desk
In
person
Telephone
Email
Chat
Text
By Appointment
Contact me directly: [email protected]
Finding Articles
Home page Article Search (Integrated search)
Databases A-Z
Individual
databases
Databases by Subject
Quick
Search (Integrated search)
Individual databases
Citation Searching
Search tips
And, Or, Not
And narrows
Or adds synonyms/related
Not excludes (use carefully)
Women’s Suffrage Movement
suffrage or ?
More Search Tips
Truncate for word variations
Advertis*
Words anywhere or phrase?
Be
= advertisement, advertisements, advertising
all you can be vs. “Be all you can be”
Field-specific searches
American
Historical Review in Source
Database Exploration
Library Homepage Article Search
America: History & Life
Jstor
Readers’ Guide Retrospective
Project Muse
Historical Abstracts
Google Scholar
Working from a known citation
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Heider, Carmen. “Farm Women, Solidarity and
the Suffrage Messenger: Nebraska Suffrage
Activism on the Plains, 1915-1917." Great
Plains Quarterly 32, no. 2 (Spring 2012): 113130.
Does
the library have it?
What format or location?
What online access?
Working from a known citation
Dumenil, Lynn. "Women's Reform Organizations and
Wartime Mobilization in World War I-Era Los
Angeles." Journal Of The Gilded Age & Progressive
Era 10, no. 2 (April 2011): 213-245.
Does
the library have it?
What format or location?
What online access?
Working from a known citation
You try it!
Everyone find it?
Issues?
Questions?
Finding Books
Library Catalog
local
WorldCat
& UNCP/FSU
9,000 libraries / @1.2 billion items
Google Books (@ 12 million / @ 7 million full-text)
Project Gutenberg (@ 40,000 books)
Some databases lead to books
Cited
directly
Book reviews
Randall Online Catalog:
Keyword vs. Subject Searching
What’s the difference?
What is a useful Subject Heading for
Women’s Suffrage Movement
Start with a keyword search, then look for
subjects in the records retrieved.
Keyword/Subject features
Keyword
Finds words anywhere in
record.
Look at records to see subject
headings.
Search lots of terms, word
variations
Subject Headings
Controlled vocabulary
May not be “natural
language” but may find more
Hierarchical arrangement
helps narrow topic
Searches only the subject field
Suggested Subject Headings
Check headings in records you find by keyword or other
searches
Use the LCSH database.
In the catalog, search by any segment of a heading – rotated
display
Same terms used in WorldCat
Searching Personal Names
Keyword
searches
Either
order
Try name variations, e.g., initials
Author/Subject
Last
name first, e.g.
Anthony, Susan B.
Online Catalog links
Subjects for related items
Call numbers for related items (usually)
Library of Congress outline
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html
SuDoc arranges by agency
Cover, summary, reviews
Location maps
Expanding search to UNCCLC
Add to Bag/Add to My Lists
Finding Books – LC Call Nos.
Alpha-numeric
Single letters before double
First number is a whole number
Everything after the decimal point is a decimal
value.
LC Call Numbers
LC Call Numbers
LC Call Numbers
Let’s try it!
WorldCat
May find items at Randall that catalog search didn’t
(records enhanced later)
Finds items for ILL requests
Rare
items not lent
Rare items may be reprinted & available
Websites included – often w/ free access!
Interlibrary Loan
Create an account/create a new account
Username – UNCW domain name
Password – UNCW password
Next Class
Primary Sources
What
they are
How to find them
QUESTIONS?
What will you do when you have questions?
[email protected]
http://library.uncw.edu
ASK FOR HELP – IT’S WHAT
WE DO!
HST 290: PRACTICE OF HISTORY –
Dr. Candice Bredbenner
Ms. Beth Kaylor
[email protected]
Since last time…
How’s it going?
Any issues?
Guide
Primary Sources
Dairies, journals, other writings of “players”
Eyewitness/Observer accounts
Memoirs, autobiographies (written later)
Official documents
Laws, treaties, reports, orders, transcripts of proceedings, addresses, etc.
Cartoons and Advertisements (of the time)
Photographs and images
Movies!
Interviews
Documents produced by government agencies, including
congressional hearings and census records
Primary or Secondary?
Scholarly article on the early development of television advertising.
Text of the 1965 U.S. Supreme Court opinion on FTC v. ColgatePalmolive.
An encyclopedia of suffragists.
Book compilation of cigarette ads.
Collection of transcripts of interviews with political cartoon artists
published in a book.
New York Times clothing ads, found in the New York Times Archive
database.
Wall Street Journal article about the history of corporate support for
political campaigns.
Military recruitment ads, circa 1969.
Chronology of major women’s history events.
Randall Online Catalog & WorldCat
Search general headings, use indexes
suffragist and interview
Search specific headings or persons
as author (Stanton, Elizabeth Cady)
Look for items not tagged as primary source
Primary documents may be included in secondary
sources
Eyewitness authors may not be tagged as sources
Randall Online Catalog & WorldCat
Standard Subheadings
Correspondence
Portraits
Diaries
Speeches
Interviews
Notebooks/Sketchbooks
Personal
Archives
narratives
Sources
Cartoons
Catalogs
Descriptions
Manuscripts
Description
Pictorial
Works
and travel
Periodicals and Newspapers
New York Times Archive
Readers’ Guide Retrospective – 1 user at a time
Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective
Pennsylvania Gazette
Collections of old newspapers (microfilm)
Digital Collections
Lots of collections
More
every year
Libraries
(UNCW Collections)
Library of Congress
UNC – Documenting the American South
NARA – National Archives and Records Administration
Avalon Project – Yale Law School
American Memory
Official Documents - Legal
Lexis Nexis Academic
Legal
A
research
Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation – LOC
History of the Federal Judiciary – Federal Judicial
Center
Historical Publications of the United States Commission
on Civil Rights – Thurgood Marshall Law Library
Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research – GSU College of
Law
So Many Collections So Little Time!
American Presidency Project
AMDOCS – Documents for the Study of American History
Hathi Trust >10,000,000 volumes
Project Gutenberg >42,000 e-books
Making of America
Cornell
University of Michigan
Online Speech Bank
Women and Social Movements in the US, 1600-2000
Bibliographies—Follow the trail
Book-length (Reference Collection)
Secondary sources (books and journal articles)
Types
Classified
(easiest to find primary sources)
Alphabetical
Footnotes/Endnotes
What can you find?
Government Documents
FDLP – Federal Depository Library Program
was
established by Congress to ensure that the
American public has access to its Government’s
information
anyone can access depository libraries and use its
collections
Regional and Selective Depositories
UNCW
is a large selective at @ 75%
Classified by publishing agency
SuDocs
Government Documents
Fdsys – Federal Digital System
America’s
Authentic Government Information
FedStats
Statistics
from more than 100 agencies and subagencies of federal and states government
Government Documents
HeinOnline
Digital National Security Archive
Catalog of Government Publications (CGP)
THOMAS – Library of Congress
QUESTIONS?
What will you do when you have questions?
ASK FOR HELP – IT’S WHAT
WE DO!