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Library Orientation for ENGL 340

Learn how to navigate important resources such as LRC, LION, and CLUES to find background info, books, articles, and poetry recordings. Discover various electronic books and journals, search operators, subject searching, and accessing full text. Explore RefWorks for bibliography organization. Get help from English librarian Vince Graziano for all your needs.

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Library Orientation for ENGL 340

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  1. LIBRARY Library Orientation for ENGL 340 November 22, 2018 Vince Graziano English Librarian vince.graziano@concordia.ca

  2. Workshop Outline • Finding background/biographical info • Literature Resource Center (LRC) • Oxford Reference Online Premium • Literature Online (LION) • Finding books and more • Library Catalogue (CLUES) • Finding articles • MLA International Bibliography (MLAIB) • ABELL • Literature Criticism Online • Finding poetry recordings • Literature Online (LION) • Library Catalogue (CLUES)

  3. Electronic Books • Collections with substantial humanities content: • Literature Online (LION) • Early English Books Online (EEBO) – 1473-1700 • Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) • Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) • Early Canadiana Online (until c. 1925) • Oxford Scholarship Online (recent) • Cambridge University Press e-books (1995-2007) • Project MUSE Ebooks (university presses) • Cambridge Companions Complete Collection (ongoing) • SpringerLink (2010-) • ACLS Humanities E-books • Canadian Publishers Collection • EBSCO E-books • Many other electronic books

  4. Electronic Journals • Collections with substantial humanities content: • Project MUSE (Recent issues) • JSTOR (Older issues) • Oxford Journals (recent and archive) • Literature Online (LION) • Literature Resource Center • Taylor & Francis (Routledge) • Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) • British Periodicals I and II (1681-1920) • American Periodicals (1741-1940) • Periodicals Archive Online (1802-2000) • Many other electronic journal collections

  5. Search Operators • AND Eliot AND drama • OR drama OR plays • “ ” “Waste Land” • * feminis* • ( ) (woolf OR bloomsbury) AND (feminis* OR women)

  6. Subject Searching • Thesaurus • List of terms used in a database • Subject Headings in CLUES • Created by the Library of Congress • Subjects include: • People • Characters • Titles of literary works • Topical subject headings

  7. To Find the Full Text • Use the feature • Search CLUES • Perform a Journal Title search • Check other Montreal libraries • Use your BCI card • Request an Interlibrary Loan (COLOMBO) • Online form • Allow 1 to 2 weeks for delivery of books • Allow 2 to 4 days for delivery of articles by email

  8. RefWorks • RefWorks is a Web-based tool that: • Facilitates organization of references • Is accessible from any Internet connection • Simplifies the process of preparing bibliographies • Access RefWorks through the Log into menu on the Library website • Help • Tutorials on Library website

  9. Help is Available • At the Ask Us Desk • Library website • Literatures in English Subject Guide • Ask a Librarian • E-mail form • Chat with a Librarian • Ask Vince: • 514-848-2424, ext. 7689 • vince.graziano@concordia.ca • Office hours: by appointment

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