HIST 300: Print Resources

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HIST 300 Print Resources

• Tamara Smith, Reference Librarian
• Langsdale Library
• October 31 November 2, 2006

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Plan for Today

• Discuss Search Citation Assignment
• Review Search Statement
• Review Primary v. Secondary Sources
• Getting Books
• Wrap-up

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Search Citation Assignment

• Choosing concepts people, places, events, etc.
• Combining concepts use AND OR
• Searching look for background info (big
  picture)
  
• Citing review Turabian bibliography format
  (remember to indent!)

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Boolean Operators

• Named for George Boole, a 19th century English
  mathematician
  
• AND joins concepts together (both/all)
• OR combines synonyms or related terms
  (either/any)
  
• NOT excludes terms or concepts (leave out)

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Boolean Operators Example

• Use some of the keywords from our list to create
  a search statement
  
• Working children AND education
• Even better
• Working AND children AND education

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Advanced Searching Example

• Basic Search working AND children AND
  education
  
• Advanced Search
• (work OR labor) AND (children OR child OR
  minor) AND education

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Type of Article (see handout)

• Popular written for general audience written at
  a high-school level or lower
  
• Professional/Trade written for fellow
  practitioners uses specific vocabulary (jargon)
  
• Scholarly written by and for experts in the
  filed, scholars, and researchers writing is very
  technical

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Type of Article (cont.)

• Not sure what type of article it is? Use Ulrichs
  Periodical Directory to get more information
  about the journal in which the article appears

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Ulrichs Periodical Directory
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Primary Resources

• Original accounts or records of historical
  events
  
• Sources from the time period
• Firsthand accounts, not interpretation or analysis

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Primary Resources

• Diaries, journals, speeches, letters, etc.
• Memoirs and autobiographies
• Newspaper, magazine, journal articles about an
  event (see handout)
  
• Government records (Census records,
  birth/marriage/death certificates, etc.)
  
• Original documents
• Photographs

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Finding Primary Resources (Print)

• Library catalog (USMAI, Pratt, WorldCat)
• Memoirs, personal narrative, autobiography,
  diaries, correspondence
  
• Archives and Special Collections (Langsdale,
  Maryland Historical Society, Pratt, etc.)
  
• Personal papers, photographs, organizational
  records, sound recordings, interviews
  

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Secondary Resources

• Historical analysis of an event, person, place,
  etc.
  
• Usually written well after the fact

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Secondary Resources

• Reference sources (encyclopedias, indexes,
  directories, etc.)
  
• Textbooks
• Biographies and other books
• Newspaper, magazine, journal articles that
  analyze an event
  

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Finding Secondary Resources (Print)

• Library catalog (USMAI, Pratt, WorldCat)
• Biography, reference sources, history,
  interpretation
  
• Library databases
• Journal articles, reference sources
• Thinks parts of the whole
• Chapter(s) or paragraphs in a book
• Part of a journal article

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Getting Books and Articles

• Use the Button
• Check the library catalog (USMAI, not just UB)
• Cant find it in USMAI? Use ILL Express!
• Its free!
• 7-10 business days for articles, 2-3 weeks for
  books (may take less time)
  
• Questions? ill_at_ubalt.edu or 410-837-4283

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Questions?
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Thank You!

• Tamara SmithReference Librariantsmith_at_ubalt.edu
  410-837-5072
  
• HIST 300 Course Page http//langsdale.ubalt.edu/h
  owto/course_websites/hist300_nix_fa06.htm