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Dr. Candice Bredbenner
Kristin Andrews
[email protected]
Your Current Research Skills?
 How would you rate your current research skills?
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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]
Resource Types
 Primary vs. Secondary
(more next time)
 Articles
 Scholarly
 Popular
 Books
 Theses & Dissertations
 Websites
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 AND women AND
movement
 suffrage OR voting
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More Search Tips
 Truncate for word variations
 Advertis* = advertisement, advertisements,
advertising
 Words anywhere or phrase?
 Be 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
Google Scholar
Working from a known citation
• 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): 113-130.
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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.
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Does the library have it?
What format or location?
What online access?
Try it yourself!
Finding Books
 Library Catalog
 local & UNCP/FSU
 WorldCat
 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
Keyword vs. Subject Searching
 Keyword
 Subject Headings
 Finds words anywhere
 Controlled vocabulary
in record.
 Look at records to see
subject headings.
 Search lots of terms,
word variations
 May not be “natural
language” but may
find more
 Hierarchical
arrangement helps
narrow topic
 Searches only the
subject field
Keyword vs. Subject in action
 What is a useful Subject Heading for
Women’s Suffrage Movement?
 Start with a keyword search, then look for
subjects in the records retrieved.
 Use subject headings to lead you to other
titles
 Same terms used in WorldCat
Searching Personal Names
 Keyword searches
Either order
 Try name variations, e.g., initials
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 Author/Subject
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Last name first, e.g.
Anthony, Susan B.
Looking at the catalog record
 Item Info
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Location (click for map)
Call #
Availability
Online Access
Cover, summary, reviews
 Subjects for related items
 Library of Congress outline
 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html
 SuDoc arranges by agency
 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
Try it yourself!
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
 Government Documents
What will you do when you have questions?
Kristin Andrews
[email protected]
General Library Help
http://library.uncw.edu
Dr. Candice Bredbenner
Kristin Andrews
[email protected]
Since last time…
 How’s it going?
 Any issues?
 Guide
Primary Sources
 Diaries, journals, other writings of “players”
 Eyewitness/observer accounts
 Memoirs, autobiographies (written later)
 Government & other official documents
 Laws, treaties, reports, orders, transcripts of proceedings,
addresses, congressional hearings, census records, etc.
 Cartoons and Advertisements (of the time)
 Photographs and images
 Movies!
 Interviews
Primary or Secondary?
 Scholarly article on the early development of
television advertising.
 The text of the 19th amendment on voting rights
 An encyclopedia on the Progressive Era.
 Collection of transcripts of interviews with political
cartoon artists published in a book.
 Wall Street Journal article about the history of
corporate support for political campaigns.
 New York Times clothing ads, found in the New
York Times Archive database.
Randall 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 Catalog & WorldCat
 Standard Subheadings
 Portraits
 Correspondence
 Speeches
 Diaries
 Notebooks/Sketch-
 Interviews
books
 Archives
 Cartoons
 Descriptions
 Description and
travel
 Personal narratives
 Sources
 Catalogs
 Manuscripts
 Pictorial Works
Periodicals and Newspapers
 New York Times Archive
 Readers’ Guide Retrospective – 1 user at a time
 Humanities and Social Sciences Index
Retrospective
 Collections of old newspapers (microfilm)
Digital Collections
 Lots of collections
 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 research
 A 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
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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 sub-agencies
of federal and states government
Government Documents
 HeinOnline
 Digital National Security Archive
 Catalog of Government Publications (CGP)
 THOMAS – Library of Congress
What will you do when you have questions?
Kristin Andrews
[email protected]
General Library Help
http://library.uncw.edu