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HIST 300: Search Strategy

HIST 300: Search Strategy. Pete Ramsey Reference / Instruction Librarian Langsdale Library pramsey@ubalt.edu 410-837-4275. Quick Review. Prize! Where is the HIST 300 guide? Books are on which floor? What are call numbers? How do they work? i.e. NA735 .B3 A73. Plan for Today.

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HIST 300: Search Strategy

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  1. HIST 300: Search Strategy Pete Ramsey Reference / Instruction Librarian Langsdale Library pramsey@ubalt.edu 410-837-4275

  2. Quick Review • Prize! • Where is the HIST 300 guide? • Books are on which floor? • What are call numbers? How do they work? • i.e. NA735 .B3 A73

  3. Plan for Today • Search Strategy • Research Stages • Finding Articles • Activity: Learn a Database

  4. The search strategy

  5. 1: Research Question Topic: • Race or ethnicity and quality of education Research Question: • Has integration resulted in a better education for blackchildren?

  6. 2: Related Keywords

  7. 3: Build Search Statements IntegrationANDEducation IntegrationANDEducationANDChildren Desegregation ANDBlackANDStudent

  8. Boolean Operators • AND: joins concepts/ideas together (both/all) • NOT: use to exclude concepts • OR: combines synonyms or related terms (either/any)

  9. Nesting: Combine Keywords • Nesting: use parentheses to combine like terms (synonyms) (IntegrationOR Desegregation)AND (EducationORLearning)AND (Black ORNegro OR African-American)

  10. Tips: Truncation • Truncation (*): the magic star! • Use “asterisk” to represent missing letters; use in place of retyping an entire word Integrat* = integrate, integrated, AND integration Learn* = ?

  11. Stronger Search Statement (Integrat*OR Desegregat*) AND (Educat*ORLearn*) AND (Black* ORNegro OR African-American)

  12. Research stages

  13. Have a topic Write a biographical essay about Linda Brown Thompson and her place in American History.

  14. What do you know? What we know: • American What we need to know: • Where in America? • Known for what? • When in history?

  15. Start with reference info. Where to find basic information? • Textbook • Encyclopedia • Wikipedia • Search engine • Database

  16. Biographical Info. Linda Brown Thompson • Born 1943 • Grew up in Topeka, Kansas • Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

  17. Related Keywords (1) Keywords • Names • Linda Brown Thompson • Oliver Brown (father) • Cheryl Brown Henderson (sister) • Places • Topeka • Kansas • United States

  18. Related Keywords (2) Keywords • Events • Brown v. Board of Education (1954) • Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) • Topics • Segregation/desegregation • Civil Rights Movement • Jim Crow or “black code” • Racism

  19. Finding articles

  20. Finding Articles (1) Subject-Specific Databases: • America: History and Life • Humanities International Complete • JSTOR (full text access for part of the database)

  21. Finding Articles (2) General Databases: • Academic Search Premier Newspaper Databases: • Afro-American Historical • Baltimore Sun Historical • Others in class research guide!

  22. Getting to the Full Text Do we own it? • Find It button • Journal Finder If we don’t own it, use ILL

  23. In-Class Exercise: Learn a Database

  24. Wrap-Up • If your topic is too broad, add another concept (AND) • If your topic is too narrow, add synonyms and related terms (OR) • When doing historical research, be creative (related people, topics, places, etc.) • Different databases = different results (try more than one)

  25. Thank You! Reference Help: Phone: 410-837-4275 E-mail: pramsey@ubalt.edu

  26. Photo Credits Young Linda Brown: http://www.policyalmanac.org/culture/archive/7174761-140.jpg (accessed 9/10/08) Cheryl Brown Henderson & Linda Brown Thompson: http://www.canisius.edu/images/userImages/chuckp/Page_5311/browns_300.jpe (accessed 9/10/08)

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