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
 Click on Create Request (if necessary)
 Library PIN required
 Article Delivery (2 working days)
 Via an online form, articles from our printed/microform collection will be scanned into PDF and delivered via e-mail
 Login with Concordia NetName
 BCI card (formerly CREPUQ)
 Request at Circulation Desk

 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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(masculin* OR men) AND shakespeare

 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
 Ask a Librarian
 E-mail form
 Chat with a Librarian
 Ask Vince :
 514-848-2424, ext. 7689
 vince.graziano@concordia.ca
 Office hours: by appointment