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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
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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
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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