Library Overview

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NEWS FROM THE FIELD CRL News, May 2004Vol. 65,
No. 5, P. 247
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Library Research

• Senior Seminar
• American History
• Wednesday, October 5, 2005
• Librarian Jenna Freedman

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Library Homepage

• http//www.barnard.edu/library/
• This is the portal to all knowledge.
• Or, if you insist, Library Web
• http//www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/

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library layout

• http//www.barnard.edu/library/
• LibraryMap.htm
• Notethe Barnard Library is in the Lehman
  Building. There is a (CU) Lehman Library that is
  located in the International Affairs Building on
  Amsterdam Avenue.
• 1st Floor circ/reserve, study hall/reading room,
  stand up use computers
• 2nd Floor ref desk, ref collection, literature
  stacks, periodicals, microforms, student
  workstations, zines
• 3rd Floor media desk, media center, media
  materials, media viewing/listening, stacks
  (everything but literature)
• Tunnel/Basement Barnard Archives

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reference serviceshttp//www.barnard.edu/library/
reference/index.htm

• Call 4-3953, e-mail refdesk_at_barnard.edu, or go to
  the reference desk.
• Virtual reference "Ask us now chat, available
  M-F 1-5 http//www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/services/r
  eference/.
• Consultations http//www.barnard.edu/library/forms
  /consult.htm. Sessions arranged by appointment.
• Please ask us for help! Thats what were here
  for.

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CLIO - books, e-books, serials (not articles),
media materials, microforms, etc.

• http//www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/clio.ht
  ml

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keyword searches

• Words that appear in any part of the record
  (author, title, publisher, etc.)
• Boolean logic AND, OR, NOT
• Use quotation marks for phrases
• Truncation?
• Fun with search results
• Sorting
• Quick limits

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subject search results

• Case insensitive, no punctuation necessary
• Subject headings list
• Subdivisions
• Downloading options
• Clickable fields
• Views basic full

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author titles searches

• Delete initial articles a, an, the.
• Same goes for foreign languages un, une, le,
  la, etc.

• Last name first
• --but what is the last name?

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journals

• Brief
• Holdings
• Full
• Indexes, finding aids, notes
• Link to full text

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primary sources

• Primary Sources
• Firsthand accounts of historic events by
  witnesses and participants.
• Documents representing the official views of the
  nation's leaders or of their political opponents.
• Government Statistics and reports on such topics
  as birth, employment, marriage, death, and
  taxation.
• Advertisers' images and jingles.
• Works of art, including paintings, symphonies,
  play scripts, photographs, murals, novels, and
  poems.
• The products of mass culture.
• Material artifacts.
• American Decades Primary Sources. (Farmington
  Hills, MI Gale Group, 2004), xxxi-xxxii.
• These items are not traditional primary sources,
  but can be viewed as such when analyzed as
  objects of their time.

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databases - primarily articles, but also e-books,
dissertations, statistics and other materials

• http//www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/databas
  es/

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ProQuest Direct http//www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/c
ul/resolve?ANH8357

• Advanced search
• Truncation
• Citation and abstract vs. Citation and document
  text
• Suggested topics publications
• Source tabs (Scholarly, trade)
• Results per page, sort by relevance
• Alerts
• Check CLIO for FT links to non-FT articles

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America History Life http//www.columbia.edu/cg
i-bin/cul/resolve?APE4503

• Advanced search
• Subject terms
• Mark records to print/e-mail/save
• E-link

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JSTOR http//www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve
?AMG1286

• Advanced search
• Search multiple disciplines
• ? replaces 1 character. ?? replaces 2, and so on.
  
• for regular plurals
• Mix and match searching abstracts, titles, and
  full text
• Use application icon for printing (not browser
  icon or command)

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other apt databases

• HarpWeek -- full text and page images of the
  popular illustrated 19th-century American
  periodical.
• Humanities Social Sciences Retrospective --
  search journals in the humanities and social
  sciences back to 1907.
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers 1851 to 2001
  fulltext archive of the Atlanta Constitution,
  Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times,
  New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington
  Post.
• Social Sciences Full Text -- citations,
  abstracts, full text for articles in social
  sciences periodicals. (select also Humanities and
  Reader's Guide databases)
• Womens Studies International -- citations for
  materials related to women's studies, gender
  studies, feminist theory and criticism

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Other Catalogs

• New York Public Library
• CATNYP http//catnyp.nypl.org/
• LEO http//leopac.nypl.org
• BobCatPlus http//www.bobcatplus.nyu.edu/
• Also other CU affiliates Law School, JTS,
  Teachers College http//www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/
  indiv/

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guides

• Research guide for this classes
  http//www.barnard.edu/library/courses/Fall2005/Se
  niorSemAmHist.htm
• Barnard Subject Guides
• History
• Politics/Government
• Women's Studies
• Columbia Subject Guides http//www.columbia.edu/cu
  /lweb/eguides/
• Find recommended primary source materials here
  http//www.barnard.edu/library/courses/Fall2005/Se
  niorSemAmHist.htmPRIMARY

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etc.

• Remote access UNI Password
• Evaluating web resources http//www2.widener.edu/W
  olfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/webeval.htm
  
• Internet Librarians Index to the Internet
  http//lii.org, Google advanced and image
  searches, Dogpile
• Library FAQs http//www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/help/
  faq/
• Style Guides http//www.dianahacker.com/bedhandboo
  k/subpages/documentation.html
• Endnote http//www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/help/howto
  /endnote/