Transcript Slide 1
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
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
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
Author/Subject
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