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How to look for information on Eastern Christendom…

How to look for information on Eastern Christendom…. …and how to control it. by Ivan HERASYM J.-L. Allie Library Saint Paul University Ottawa/Canada. Numbers to consider. Over 61,000,000 records in O CLC database Over 100,000 titles presented during 2005 Frankfurt Book Fair

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  1. How to look for information onEastern Christendom…

  2. …and how to control it by Ivan HERASYM J.-L. Allie Library Saint Paul University Ottawa/Canada

  3. Numbers to consider • Over 61,000,000 records in OCLC database • Over 100,000 titlespresentedduring 2005 Frankfurt Book Fair • ATLA Religion Database includes more than 460,000 article citations from more than 1,500 journals • More than 500 periodicals on Eastern churches

  4. Primary sources: ad fontes! • Texts • Periodicals/Journal articles • Dissertations and theses • Conference proceedings

  5. Primary sources: Periodicals • Orientalia christiana periodica • Journal of Eastern Christian studies • Ostkirchliche Studien • Revue des études byzantines • Logos : a journal of Eastern Christian studies

  6. Primary sources: Dissertations • ProQuest Digital Dissertations • Canada: www.collectionscanada.ca/thesescanada/ • Theologische Revue (overview of German-language dissertations) • Ukraine: www.nbuv.gov.ua/db/dis.html • Russia: diss.rsl.ru

  7. Dissertations: Digital Dissertations

  8. Secondary sources: in medias res! • References materials • Monographs

  9. Secondary sources: Reference materials • Encyclopedias • Dictionaries • Directories • Maps and atlases

  10. Reference materials:Encyclopaedias • Pravoslavnaia entsiklopediia • Encyclopédie Maronite • Coptic encyclopedia • St. Thomas Christian encyclopaedia of Indias • Theologische Realenzyklopädie / TRE • Religion in Past and Present / RPP (RGG)

  11. Reference materials:Dictionaries • Blackwell dictionary of Eastern Christianity • Oxford reference on-line • Petit dictionnaire de l'Orient chrétien • Dictionary of Orthodox theology • Thesaurus linguae graecae / TLG

  12. Dictionaries:Oxford reference on-line

  13. Tertiary sources: tres faciunt consilium • Bibliographies and bibliographic utilities • Indexes and abstracts • Book reviews • Guides • Library Web sites • Book catalogues • Thesauri

  14. Tertiary sources: Bibliographies • Eastern Christianity : a bibliography selected from the ATLA religion database • Eastern Christian ritual : a bibliography of English language sources • Ostkirchliche Studien • Dzherela i bibliografiia istoriï ukraïns’koï tserkvy • Hellēnikē theologikē vivliographia

  15. A/I Services: ATLA database

  16. Tertiary sources: Guides • A guide to the Eastern Code: a commentary on the Code of canons of the Eastern Churches • Critical guide to Catholic reference books

  17. Tertiary sources: Book reviews • Journal of Eastern Christian Studies • St. Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly • Theologische Literaturzeitung / ThLZ • Irénikon • Orientalia Christiana Peridodica • Byzantion • Logos : a journal of Eastern Christian studies

  18. Tertiary sources: Library Web catalogues • J.-L. Allie Library • Ottawa University • Library of Congress • Harvard University • Vernadsky National Library (Ukraine) • Russian State / National Libraries • National Library of Serbia

  19. Library Web catalogues: multiLIS

  20. RefWorks: our tool to control this information

  21. RefWorks advantages • Electronic database form • Powerful search capabilities • Easy to use • Available on-line

  22. RefWorks disadvantages • .NET technology • Diacritics • You can use it only as long as you are with SPU or any other institution that have access to RefWorks

  23. Why to know it…

  24. ipsa scientia potestas est Knowledge itself is power

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