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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?
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)
Example: Miscegenation in Film
Miscegenation or ?
Film or ?
More Search Tips
Truncate for word variations
Film* = film or films or filming or filmmaking
Words anywhere or phrase?
Black Girl or “Black Girl”
Field-specific searches
“Jungle Fever” in title
Database Exploration
Library Homepage Article Search
America: History & Life
JSTOR
Film Literature Index
Google Scholar
Working from a known citation
Gosselin, Adrienne Johnson. "Racial Etiquette and
the (White) Plot of Passing: (Re)Inscribing 'Place'
in John Stahl's Imitation of Life." Canadian Review
Of American Studies 28, no. 3 (1998): 47.
Does the library have it?
What format or location?
Is there 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
Miscegenation and Hollywood?
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.
Lee, Spike
Looking at the catalog record
Item Info
Location
Call number
Availability
Online Access
Cover, summary, reviews
Subjects for related items
Government Documents: SuDoc arranges by
agency
Expanding search to UNCCLC
Request/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
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!
Try it yourself!
Interlibrary Loan
Create an account/create a new account
Username – UNCW domain name
Password – UNCW password
Secondary - Primary
Next Session:
Find a relevant secondary source (book or article) with a
bibliography.
Review the bibliography to find a primary source.
Copy the page with the primary source citation.
Highlight citation for primary source.
Complete exercise form; attach copy; bring to class.
Next Class
Primary Sources
What they are
How to find them
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]
Primary Sources
Diaries, journals, other writings of “players”
Eyewitness/Observer accounts
Memoirs, autobiographies (written later)
Official documents
Laws, treaties, reports, orders, transcripts of
proceedings, addresses, etc.
Advertisements (of the time)
Images
Movies!
Primary or Secondary?
Scholarly article published in 2005 on racial taboos in
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Congressional Record explanation of HR 6097, a 1933 bill
for supervision of motion pictures.
An encyclopedia of African Americans in motion pictures
An essay by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. entitled “Jungle fever :
guess who's not coming to dinner?” published in a 1991
book.
Collection of transcripts of interviews with movie directors
New York Times review of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
written in 1967.
The movie Jungle Fever
Randall Catalog & WorldCat
Search general subject headings
Motion picture producers and director -interviews
Search specific headings or persons
Stanley Kramer as author (Kramer, Stanley)
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
Correspondence
Diaries
Interviews
Personal narratives*
Sources
See guide for others
Periodicals and Newspapers
New York Times Archive
Readers’ Guide Retrospective
Humanities and Social Sciences Index
Retrospective
Official Documents
Lexis Nexis Academic
Legal
Lexis-Nexis Congressional
HeinOnline
Digital Collections
See the Research Guide for more!
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 will you do when you have questions?
Kristin Andrews
[email protected]
General Library Help
http://library.uncw.edu