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HST 201: PEOPLING OF AMERICA Spring 2014

HST 201: PEOPLING OF AMERICA Spring 2014. Michael Unsworth History Librarian unsworth@msu.edu. WHY YOU ARE HERE. Annotated Bibliography = 10% Research paper = 45%. OUTLINE. Decoding citations Retrieving Materials Reviewing the Team Project Finding Quick/Background Info

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HST 201: PEOPLING OF AMERICA Spring 2014

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  1. HST 201: PEOPLING OF AMERICASpring 2014 Michael Unsworth History Librarian unsworth@msu.edu

  2. WHY YOU ARE HERE Annotated Bibliography = 10% Research paper = 45%

  3. OUTLINE Decoding citations Retrieving Materials Reviewing the Team Project Finding Quick/Background Info Finding Scholarly Articles Using the Online Catalog Locating Bibliographies Locating Primary Sources Questions

  4. DECODING CITATIONS

  5. Retrieving Materials

  6. RETRIEVING MATERIAL

  7. MELCAT

  8. MELCAT

  9. MELCAT

  10. MELCAT

  11. 14 Digit ID Number

  12. MELCAT

  13. WORLDCAT

  14. WORLDCAT

  15. ILLIAD

  16. ILLIAD

  17. IT’S ACTIVE LEARNING TIME!!! • YOUR TEAM HAS FIVE (5) MINUTES • YOU CAN USE ANY RESOURCE, INCLUDING WIKIPEDIA (except when specified otherwise)

  18. QUICK/BACKGROUND INFORMATION

  19. A two to four paragraph description about Immigration and Naturalization Service using any source except Wikipedia

  20. SCHOLARLY ARTICLES • Authors are authorities in their fields. • Articles are written for other researchers or for serious students of the subject. • Individual issues have little or no advertising.  • Articles are usually reports of scholarly research.  • Illustrations usually take the form of charts and graphs.  • Articles use formal language or the jargon of the discipline. • Articles must go through a peer-review or refereed process (review by two or more experts before being approved for publication). • Authors cite their sources in endnotes, footnotes, or bibliographies. 

  21. FINDING SCHOLARLY ARTICLES

  22. INDEXES THAT LIST SCHOLARLY HISTORY ARTICLES: U.S.A. AND CANADA EVERY OTHER PLACE FROM 1450 ONWARDS

  23. A scholarly article aboutlabor unions and immigration for the period 1870-1930

  24. Getting Articles From Other Libraries

  25. ArticleReach Form

  26. Using the Online Catalog

  27. Books about the “Know Nothing“ Party or Movement written before 1865

  28. BIBLIOGRAPHIES “…the compiler of a BIBLIOGRAPHY acts as a scholarly research assistant, providing a summary of what is available in one easy-to-use guide.” Meyer, Jack Allen. An annotated bibliography of the Napoleonic era: recent publications, 1945-1985 (New York : Greenwood Press, 1987): xi.

  29. Bibliography on German Americans and get citations for a book and a journal article

  30. FROM A PUBLISHED WORK

  31. IN THE ONLINE CATALOG

  32. IN THE ONLINE CATALOG

  33. PREFACE

  34. PRIMARY SOURCES:Definition “…items that are directly associated with their producer or user and the time period in which they were created. Examples, include diaries, newspapers articles, government documents, photographs, oral interviews, and news broadcasts.” SOURCE: Presnell, Jenny L. The information-literate historian : a guide to research for history students (New York : Oxford University Press, 2007): 93.

  35. CAUTION: MEMOIRS

  36. Books or journals by an immigrant rights group written between 1950 and 1980

  37. Primary source about Chinese in the United States or in any state

  38. SOURCES USED IN A WORK

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