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Dr. Glen Harris 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 with research? Our plan for the library sessions Review Research Guide for this course. Explore various search tools. Learn to identify secondary sources. 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) Books Articles Scholarly Popular Theses & Dissertations Websites Finding Books Library Catalog WorldCat Local Finds items at UNCW and at libraries worldwide Google Books ~12 million / ~7 million full-text. Older books may be available in full text. 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 Civil Rights 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 Local Searching Personal Names Keyword searches Either order Try name variations, e.g., initials Author/Subject Last name, first, e.g. Eaton, Hubert 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 LC Call Numbers 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 WorldCat Local Will find books & articles from UNCW and libraries worldwide Finds items for ILL requests Rare items not lent Rare items may be reprinted & available Websites included – often w/ free access! Interlibrary Loan Use the libraryServicesInterlibrary Loan Create an account/create a new account Username – UNCW domain name Password – UNCW password Try it yourself! Finding Articles Home page Article Search (WorldCat Local) Databases A-Z Individual databases Databases by Subject Citation Searching Search tips And, Or, Not And narrows Or adds synonyms/related Not excludes (use carefully) Racial discrimination in North Carolina Racism AND North Carolina Racism OR Discrimination OR Bias More Search Tips Truncate for word variations Activis* = activist, activism Words anywhere or phrase? Be all you can be vs. “Be all you can be” Field-specific searches American Historical Review in Source 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? In what format or location? Try it yourself! 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. Glen Harris 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 use of civil disobedience during the civil rights movement. The text of the 19th amendment on voting rights An encyclopedia on the civil rights movement. Collection of transcripts of interviews with NC civil rights activists published in a book. A News & Observer article about the history of civil rights in NC. New York Times advertisements, found in the New York Times Archive database. Randall Catalog & WorldCat Local Search general headings civil rights and interview Search specific headings or persons as author (Eaton, Hubert) 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 Local 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 News & Observer Index Readers’ Guide Retrospective Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective Newspapers on microfilm, e.g. Wilmington Morning Star Digital Collections Lots of collections Libraries (UNCW Collections) Library of Congress (e.g. American Memory ) UNC – Documenting the American South DPLA (Digital Public Library of America) 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 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 HeinOnline Congressional documents, court cases, etc. Congress.gov Congressional Documents What will you do when you have questions? Kristin Andrews [email protected] General Library Help http://library.uncw.edu