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1. HST 290: Practice of History – Social Movements in the U.S.

   Dr. Candice Bredbenner Ms. Beth Kaylor kaylorj@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: kaylorj@uncw.edu
5. Finding Articles Home page Article Search (Integrated search) Databases A-Z Individual databases Databases by Subject Quick Search (Integrated search) Individual databases Citation Searching
6. Search tips And, Or, Not And narrows Or adds synonyms/related Not excludes (use carefully) Women’s Suffrage Movement suffrage or ?
7. More Search Tips Truncate for word variations Advertis* = advertisement, advertisements, advertising Words anywhere or phrase? Be all you can be vs. “Be all you can be” Field-specific searches American Historical Review in Source
8. Database Exploration Library Homepage Article Search America: History & Life Jstor Readers’ Guide Retrospective Project Muse Historical Abstracts Google Scholar
9. Working from a known citation Heider, Carmen. “Farm Women, Solidarity and the Suffrage Messenger: Nebraska Suffrage Activism on the Plains, 1915-1917." Great Plains Quarterly 32, no. 2 (Spring 2012): 113-130. Does the library have it? What format or location? What online access?
10. Working from a known citation Dumenil, Lynn. "Women's Reform Organizations and Wartime Mobilization in World War I-Era Los Angeles." Journal Of The Gilded Age & Progressive Era 10, no. 2 (April 2011): 213-245. Does the library have it? What format or location? What online access?
11. Working from a known citation You try it! Everyone find it? Issues? Questions?
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. Randall Online Catalog:Keyword vs. Subject Searching What’s the difference? What is a useful Subject Heading for Women’s Suffrage Movement Start with a keyword search, then look for subjects in the records retrieved.
14. Keyword/Subject features 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
15. Suggested Subject Headings Check headings in records you find by keyword or other searches Use the LCSH database. In the catalog, search by any segment of a heading – rotated display Same terms used in WorldCat
16. Searching Personal Names Keyword searches Either order Try name variations, e.g., initials Author/Subject Last name first, e.g. Anthony, Susan B.
17. Online Catalog links Subjects for related items Call numbers for related items (usually) Library of Congress outline http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html SuDoc arranges by agency Cover, summary, reviews Location maps Expanding search to UNCCLC Add to Bag/Add to My Lists
18. 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.
19. LC Call Numbers
20. LC Call Numbers
21. LC Call Numbers Let’s try it!
22. 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!
23. Interlibrary Loan Create an account/create a new account Username – UNCW domain name Password – UNCW password
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!

    kaylorj@uncw.edu http://library.uncw.edu

27. HST 290: Practice of History –

    Dr. Candice Bredbenner Ms. Beth Kaylor kaylorj@uncw.edu
28. Since last time… How’s it going? Any issues? Guide
29. Primary Sources Dairies, journals, other writings of “players” Eyewitness/Observer accounts Memoirs, autobiographies (written later) Official documents Laws, treaties, reports, orders, transcripts of proceedings, addresses, etc. Cartoons and Advertisements (of the time) Photographs and images Movies! Interviews Documents produced by government agencies, including congressional hearings and census records
30. Primary or Secondary? Scholarly article on the early development of television advertising. Text of the 1965 U.S. Supreme Court opinion on FTC v. Colgate-Palmolive. An encyclopedia of suffragists. Book compilation of cigarette ads. Collection of transcripts of interviews with political cartoon artists published in a book. New York Times clothing ads, found in the New York Times Archive database. Wall Street Journal article about the history of corporate support for political campaigns. Military recruitment ads, circa 1969. Chronology of major women’s history events.
31. Randall Online Catalog & WorldCat Search general headings, use indexes suffragist and interview Search specific headings or persons as author (Stanton, Elizabeth Cady) Look for items not tagged as primary source Primary documents may be included in secondary sources Eyewitness authors may not be tagged as sources
32. Randall Online Catalog & WorldCat Standard Subheadings Correspondence Diaries Interviews Personal narratives Sources Catalogs Manuscripts Pictorial Works Portraits Speeches Notebooks/Sketchbooks Archives Cartoons Descriptions Description and travel
33. Periodicals and Newspapers New York Times Archive Readers’ Guide Retrospective – 1 user at a time Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective Pennsylvania Gazette Collections of old newspapers (microfilm)
34. Digital Collections Lots of collections More every year Libraries (UNCW Collections) Library of Congress UNC – Documenting the American South NARA – National Archives and Records Administration Avalon Project – Yale Law School American Memory
35. Official Documents - Legal Lexis Nexis Academic Legal research A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation – LOC History of the Federal Judiciary – Federal Judicial Center Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights – Thurgood Marshall Law Library Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research – GSU College of Law
36. So Many Collections So Little Time! American Presidency Project AMDOCS – Documents for the Study of American History Hathi Trust >10,000,000 volumes Project Gutenberg >42,000 e-books Making of America Cornell University of Michigan Online Speech Bank Women and Social Movements in the US, 1600-2000
37. Bibliographies—Follow the trail Book-length (Reference Collection) Secondary sources (books and journal articles) Types Classified (easiest to find primary sources) Alphabetical Footnotes/Endnotes What can you find?
38. Government Documents FDLP – Federal Depository Library Program was established by Congress to ensure that the American public has access to its Government’s information anyone can access depository libraries and use its collections Regional and Selective Depositories UNCW is a large selective at @ 75% Classified by publishing agency SuDocs
39. Government Documents Fdsys – Federal Digital System America’s Authentic Government Information FedStats Statistics from more than 100 agencies and sub-agencies of federal and states government
40. Government Documents HeinOnline Digital National Security Archive Catalog of Government Publications (CGP) THOMAS– Library of Congress

41. Questions?

    What will you do when you have questions?

42. Ask for help – it’s what we do!