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Dr. Candice Bredbenner
Kristin Andrews
[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]
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
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.
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?
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
Author/Subject
Last name first, e.g.
Anthony, Susan B.
Looking at the catalog record
Item Info
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
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