Library Workshop Handout for American Stories: Group I (intro)
http://academic.evergreen.edu/m/mcmillip/bi0910/amstories/amstories.html
Jan. 15, 2010
Things we are likely to cover:
How to search for books
How to get books.
What Summit is.
How to search for journal articles.
How to get full text of journal articles
What ILL and ILLiad are.
How to find and use Reference Books
How to find and use Reference Librarians
Using one book to find other older books and articles: The Bibliography
Scholarly vs. Non-scholarly / Peer review
Are libraries necessary in the age of Google? Is our library necessary?
Additional things we may or may not cover (if not, ask your librarian later
about anything here that interests you)
Google Scholar
Free Web  Full text
Google Books / Amazon Search Inside the Book
Introduction to citation (Styles, Zotero)
Subject Headings / Subject Searching
ILL for books not in Summit
Metasearch (search multiple databases at one time)
Using one book/article to find related newer books and articles
Advanced Searching
Setting up Google Scholar Preferences at home.
Journal Databases of Interest to the Program:
Academic Search Complete
JSTOR
Social Sciences Full Text
SocIndex Full Text
Humanities Full Text
Art Full Text
ScienceDirect
MLA Bibliography
America: History and Life
Google Scholar
Communication and Mass Media Complete
Poole’s Index to Periodical Literature 1802 - 1907
Some Reference Resources of Interest
(you can locate these through the online catalog):
Online:
Oxford Companion to United States History
Oxford Companion to American Literature
Oxford Companion to American Theatre
American Indian Experience
African American Studies Center
Cambridge History of English and American Literature
(published 1907-1921)
The nineteenth century in print : the making of America in books and periodicals
Available until Feb. 7 only:
American History In Video (through workshop website only)
Music Online (through workshop website only)
Print Reference Resources:
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (208 volumes)
Dictionary of literary biography (237 volumes)
Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia of American forest and conservation history
Encyclopedia of American political history : studies of the principal movements and ideas
Encyclopedia of American social history
Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history (5 vols)
The encyclopedia of American religious history
The encyclopedia of Native American economic history
Encyclopedia of American cultural and intellectual history (3 vols)
Encyclopedia of Japanese American history : an A-to-Z reference from 1868 to the
present
Encyclopedia of the American Civil War : a political, social, and military history
Encyclopedia of women in American history (3 vols)
Encyclopedia of American history (11 vols)
Encyclopedia of American disability history (3 vols)
The encyclopedia of strikes in American history
A to Z of Native American women
American settlement houses and progressive social reform : an encyclopedia of the
American settlement movement
Encyclopedia Latina : history, culture, and society in the United States
Encyclopedia of African-American civil rights : from emancipation to the present
Encyclopedia of Native American religions : an introduction
Encyclopedia of the antebellum South
The encyclopedia of third parties in America
Encyclopedia of American immigration (4 vols)
Encyclopedia of American education (3 vols)
Encyclopedia of American women in business : from colonial times to the present
Encyclopedia of immigration and migration in the American West
The Greenwood encyclopedia of African American civil rights : from emancipation to the
twenty-first century (2 vols)
Encyclopedia of world environmental history (3 Vols)
Encyclopedia of World Cultures (10 Vols)
The Greenwood encyclopedia of women's issues worldwide.
The Garland encyclopedia of world music (10 vols.)
The New Grove dictionary of musical instruments (3 Vols)