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Dr. Glen Harris Kristin Andrews andrewsk@uncw.edu

HST 290: Practice of History – Depictions of Miscegenation in Documentaries, Television Shows and Hollywood Films. Dr. Glen Harris Kristin Andrews andrewsk@uncw.edu. Your Current R esearch S kills?. How would you rate your current research skills? Strong Satisfactory Needs improvement

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  1. HST 290: Practice of History – Depictions of Miscegenation in Documentaries, Television Shows and Hollywood Films Dr. Glen Harris Kristin Andrews andrewsk@uncw.edu

  2. 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?

  3. 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

  4. Where to get help • Learning Commons Help Desk • In person • Telephone • Email • Chat • Text • By Appointment • Contact me directly: andrewsk@uncw.edu

  5. Resource Types • Primary vs. Secondary (more next time) • Articles • Scholarly • Popular • Books • Theses & Dissertations • Websites

  6. Finding Articles • Home page Article Search (Integrated search) • Databases A-Z • Individual databases • Databases by Subject • Quick Search (Integrated search) • Individual databases • Citation Searching

  7. Search tips • And, Or, Not • And narrows • Or adds synonyms/related • Not excludes (use carefully) Example: Miscegenation in Film • Miscegenation or ? • Film or ?

  8. 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

  9. Database Exploration • Library Homepage Article Search • America: History & Life • JSTOR • Film Literature Index • Google Scholar

  10. 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?

  11. Try it yourself!

  12. 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

  13. Keyword vs. Subject Searching • Keyword • Finds words anywhere in record. • Look at records to see subject headings. • Search lots of terms, word variations • Subject Headings • Controlled vocabulary • May not be “natural language” but may find more • Hierarchical arrangement helps narrow topic • Searches only the subject field

  14. 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

  15. Searching Personal Names • Keyword searches • Either order • Try name variations, e.g., initials • Author/Subject • Last name first, e.g. Lee, Spike

  16. Looking at the catalog record • Item Info • 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

  17. 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.

  18. LC Call Numbers

  19. LC Call Numbers

  20. 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!

  21. Try it yourself!

  22. Interlibrary Loan • Create an account/create a new account • Username – UNCW domain name • Password – UNCW password

  23. 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.

  24. Next Class • Primary Sources • What they are • How to find them

  25. Questions? What will you do when you have questions?

  26. Ask for help –it’s what we do! Kristin Andrews andrewsk@uncw.edu General Library Help http://library.uncw.edu

  27. HST 290: Practice of History – Depictions of Miscegenation in Documentaries, Television Shows and Hollywood Films Dr. Glen Harris Kristin Andrews andrewsk@uncw.edu

  28. 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!

  29. Primary or Secondary? • Scholarly article published in 2005 on racial taboos in 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

  30. 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

  31. Randall Catalog & WorldCat • Standard Subheadings • Correspondence • Diaries • Interviews • Personal narratives* • Sources • See guide for others

  32. Periodicals and Newspapers • New York Times Archive • Readers’ Guide Retrospective • Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective

  33. Official Documents • Lexis Nexis Academic • Legal • Lexis-Nexis Congressional • HeinOnline

  34. Digital Collections • See the Research Guide for more!

  35. Bibliographies—Follow the trail • Book-length (Reference Collection) • Secondary sources (books and journal articles) • Types • Classified (easiest to find primary sources) • Alphabetical • Footnotes/Endnotes

  36. Questions? What will you do when you have questions?

  37. Ask for help –it’s what we do! Kristin Andrews andrewsk@uncw.edu General Library Help http://library.uncw.edu

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