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Dr. William McCarthy
History Librarian: Kristin Andrews
[email protected]
Resource Types
 Primary
 Secondary
 Articles
 Scholarly
 Popular
 Books
 Theses & Dissertations
 Websites
Search tips
 And, Or, Not
 And narrows
 Or adds synonyms/related
 Not excludes (use carefully)
Topic: Hate Speech in North Carolina
Hate speech AND North Carolina
 Speech OR expression OR statements
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More Search Tips
 Truncate for word variations
 Activis* = activist, activism
 Words anywhere or exact phrase?
 Be all you can be vs. “Be all you can be”
 Advanced Limiters
 Historical era
 Subject area (in JSTOR)
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.
Look in the UNCW catalog for book OR journal title (in
this case “Great Plains Quarterly”).
 If we have the journal, check available dates for print &
online formats
 If we don’t have access, request via Interlibrary Loan
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Finding Books
 Library Catalog
 WorldCat Local
 9,000 libraries / ~1.2 billion items
 Google Books (public domain books are
available in full text.)
Keyword vs. Subject in action
 Do a keyword search in the UNCW library
catalog or the search box on the library
home page.
 When you find a title that is useful for your
topic, look at the subject headings listed in
the record.
 Click on useful subject headings to lead you
to other more books on that topic.
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. Eaton, Hubert
Looking at the catalog record
 Item Info
 Location (click for map)
 Call # (location on shelf)
 Availability
 Online Access
 Cover, summary, reviews
LC Call Numbers
LC Call Numbers
Interlibrary Loan
 First time: go to the ILL page and fill out the
form under “First Time Users”
 Username – UNCW domain name
 Password – UNCW password
 When you click “Request from Interlibrary
Loan” in WorldCat Local or an article database,
you can log in and it will fill out the request for
you.
 Allow a few days for articles & a week or so for
book requests. You’ll get an email when it
arrives.
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
Randall Catalog & WorldCat
Subject Subheadings
 Correspondence
 Diaries
 Interviews
 Personal narratives
 Sources
 Catalogs
 Manuscripts
 Pictorial Works
 Portraits
 Speeches
 Notebooks/Sketch-
books
 Archives
 Cartoons
 Descriptions
 Description and
travel
Periodicals and Newspapers
 New York Times Archive
 Times Digital Archive
 Readers’ Guide Retrospective
 Newspapers on microfilm, e.g. Wilmington
Morning Star
Digital Collections
Many out there. Some examples:
 UNC – Documenting the American
South
 American Memory (from Library of
Congress)
 DPLA (Digital Public Library of
America)
Official Documents - Legal
 Lexis Nexis Academic
 Hein Online
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 & Legal 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
 Lexis Nexis Academic
 Legal Search
What will you do when you have questions?
Kristin Andrews
[email protected]
General Library Help
http://library.uncw.edu