Introduction to Library Resources for English Students
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Vince Graziano
English Librarian vince.graziano@concordia .ca
MLA Citation Style Guide
Finding Background/Biographical Information
Literature Resource Center
Contemporary Authors
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Oxford Reference
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
Finding Books
CLUES, the Library catalogue
Finding Journal Articles
MLA International Bibliography
ABELL
Finding Videos
Theatre in Video
Format:
Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book . City of Publication:
Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of
Publication.
Example:
Goldman, Jane. Cambridge Introduction to Virginia
Woolf . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2006. Print.
Format:
Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book . City of Publication:
Publisher, Year of Publication. Name of
Database . Medium of Publication. Date of
Access.
Example:
Sellers, Susan, ed. Cambridge Companion to Virginia
Woolf . 2 nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2010. Cambridge Companions Online .
Web. 12 Sept. 2014.
Format:
Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Journal Volume.Issue
(Year): pages. Medium of publication.
Example:
Chan, Evelyn T. “The Ethics and Aesthetics of Healing:
Woolf, Medicine, and Professionalization.”
Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
43.1 (2014): 25-51. Print.
Format:
Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Journal Volume.Issue
(Year): pages. Name of Database . Medium of publication. Date of Access.
Example:
Chan, Evelyn T. “The Ethics and Aesthetics of Healing:
Woolf, Medicine, and Professionalization.”
Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
43.1 (2014): 25-51. Taylor & Francis . Web. 12
Sept. 2014.
Format:
Lastname, First name. "Title of Essay." Title of
Collection. Ed. Editor's Name(s). City of
Publication: Publisher, Year. Page range of entry. Medium of Publication.
Example:
Whitworth, Michael H. “Virginia Woolf, Modernism and
Modernity.” Cambridge Companion to Virgina
Woolf . Ed. Susan Sellers. 2 nd ed. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2010. 107-123.
Print.
Format:
Lastname, First name. "Title of Essay." Title of
Collection. Ed. Editor's Name(s). City of
Publication: Publisher, Year. Page range of entry. Name of Database . Medium of Publication.
Date of Access.
Example:
Whitworth, Michael H. “Virginia Woolf, Modernism and
Modernity.” Cambridge Companion to Virgina
Woolf . Ed. Susan Sellers. 2 nd ed. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2010. 107-123.
Cambridge Companions Online . Web. 12 Sept.
2014.
Interlibrary Loans – COLOMBO
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Primary sources :
Original materials
literary works of authors and their diaries, correspondence, criticism etc.
material written as close to the event as possible
Secondary sources :
describe, analyze, interpret, or review primary sources
Ex: books, journal articles, book reviews
Tertiary sources :
provide overviews, summaries or explanations of topics by synthesizing information gathered usually from secondary sources
Ex: dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference sources
Collections with substantial humanities content :
Project MUSE (Recent issues)
JSTOR (Older issues)
Oxford Journals (recent and archive)
Literature Online (LION)
Literature Resource Center
Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
British Periodicals I and II (1681-1920)
American Periodicals (1741-1940)
Periodicals Archive Online (1802-2000)
Many other electronic journal collections
Collections with substantial humanities content :
Literature Online (LION)
Early English Books Online (EEBO) – 1473-1700
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO)
Early Canadiana Online (until c. 1925)
Oxford Scholarship Online (recent and ongoing)
Cambridge University Press e-books (1995-2007)
Project MUSE Ebooks (university presses)
Cambridge Companions Complete Collection (ongoing)
Palgrave Macmillan (2010-)
ACLS Humanities E-books
Canadian Publishers Collection
EBSCO E-books
Many other electronic books
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Thesaurus
List of terms used in a database
Subject Headings in CLUES
Created by the Library of Congress
Subjects include:
People
Characters
Titles of literary works
Topical subject headings
1. Use the
2. Search CLUES
Perform a Journal Title search feature
3. Check other Montreal libraries
Use your BCI card
4. Request an Interlibrary Loan (COLOMBO)
Online form
Allow 1 to 2 weeks for delivery of books
Allow 2 to 4 days for delivery of articles by email
RefWorks is a Web-based tool that :
Facilitates organization of references
Is accessible from any Internet connection
Simplifies the process of preparing bibliographies
Access RefWorks through the Quick Links menu on the Library website
Help
Tutorials on Library website
At the Reference Desk
Library website
Literatures in English Research Guide
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Ask Vince :
514-848-2424, ext. 7689
vince.graziano@concordia.ca
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