and NOT) Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice and text

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Bibliography research

• a presentation by Megan Lowe, Reference Librarian

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Session Overview

• General Points
• Bibliography
• Research
• Conducting Research
• Finding Books
• Finding Articles
• Citations Annotated Bibliography
• Throughout!
• Q A Time

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General Points Bibliography

• Bibliography tends focuses on literary works as
  artifacts and objects, rather than as works of
  aesthetic merit
• Though bibliography studies the text of a work,
  it does not study its meaning or import rather,
  it studies the text itself and how it has changed
  or changes
• These changes may be accidental or intentional
  the product of the author, editors, translators,
  or interpreters the result of times a-changin
  or a variety of other variables

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General Points Bibliography Also

• Directs scholars and readers to source materials
  used by authors and other scholars
• Can allow scholars to trace the provenance of
  ideas and texts
• Promotes scholarly communication the
  continued dialogue of examination, analysis, and
  interpretation that promotes study,
  experimentation, and conversation
• Is not a tool designed to torture students
  writing research papers

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General Points Bibliography

• Engenders legitimacy in a scholars study of a
  text
• Can assist readers in better understanding the
  context of a text
• Provides a template for how resources are
  documented this provides professionalism and
  consistency across the scholarship
• Allows scholars to better understand how texts
  change and are changed, how they evolve, and how
  they influence the cultures, societies, etc., in
  which those texts are read or available

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General Points Research

• Research is not hard, but it is time-consuming
  and requires attention to detail
• Bibliography in particular requires careful
  attention to detail
• Organization and planning are key to a successful
  and efficient (read time-saving) research
  project
• Dont assume youre going to find everything you
  need the first time around you will find that
  sometimes you have to dig and dig and dig to find
  what you need

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General Points Research

• Dont wait until the last minute to conduct
  research, especially in this class
• We might not have the resources you need, which
  may require ILL, which can take time (especially
  for books)
• Procrastinating means youll be researching AND
  writing at the last minute, which means the
  quality of your searching and your writing will
  be compromised
• Panicking makes researchers rude, and librarians
  dont like rude researchers

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General Points Research

• Remember planning and organization will make
  your life easier find a system that works for
  you
• Documenting as you go will save time and make it
  easier for you to return to resources later
• DONT PANIC YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
• If you need help, you can ask the librarians for
  help that is what we are here for!
• Remember, though failure to act on YOUR part
  does not constitute an emergency on OURS

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Conducting Research Getting Started

• Planning and getting organized are your best
  tools when researching, especially when you might
  be conducting research that requires you to
  examine several different editions or versions of
  a text
• Dont underestimate the usefulness of Post-It
  notes, folders, notebooks, and notecards again,
  documenting as you go will help (organization)
• One habit that can help you is to compile a list
  of keywords related to your topic or text

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Keywords

• Lets say youre focusing on variations in the
  text of Jane Austens novel Pride Prejudice
• Jane Austen Collation
• Pride Prejudice Revision(s)
• Text Edition(s)
• Bibliography Textual
• Variation(s) Reprint(s)

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Keywords

• Once you have keywords, then you can create
  search strings these are more focused and help
  you get to the information you need more quickly.
  You will combine them using operators (AND, OR,
  and NOT)
• Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice and text
• Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice and
  revisions
• Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice and
  editions
• Order is not important, but spelling is!
  Titles need quotation marks. Dont use or
  to search.

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Looking for Resources

• The advantage of using the Librarys resources
  resides in the fact that the Librarys resources
  are quality-controlled, which cannot necessarily
  be said for the Internet
• You will need to focus on scholarly,
  peer-reviewed resources you can safely assume
  that most of our resources (with the exception of
  popular fiction and recreational reading) are
  scholarly and/or peer-reviewed

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Looking for Resources

• Many of our databases contain both
  scholarly/peer-reviewed resources and popular
  resources
• Some databases are strictly scholarly
• Those databases which contain both will allow you
  to limit your results to scholarly/peer-reviewed
  only
• Evaluation is also very important if you conduct
  research using Google or other search engines

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Looking for Resources

• Quick rule of thumb
• If it sounds like something youd read while
  standing in line at the grocery store or
  Wal-mart, its probably POPULAR
• If it sounds like something youd read for class
  (or just sounds really, really boring) its
  probably SCHOLARLY

VERSUS
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Looking for Resources Books

• If you need book resources, the best place to
  start is the ULM Library Catalog
• We have two flavors of books
• Print
• Electronic
• Always remember BOOKS CATALOG

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Books Catalog
http//www.ulm.edu/library
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Catalog
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Catalog
For more info, click on the title
Stacks are the books that can be checked out
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Finding Books in the Library

• ULM collections are all housed in this building
  different collections are housed on different
  floors, and the Catalog will tell you which floor
  you needwith the exception of Stacks
• Stacks are housed on floors 2-5 the call number
  for a book will tell you which floor to go to
• Electronic books and resources can be accessed
  through the Catalog, but more on electronic books
  in a minute

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Finding Books Stacks

• Call numbers beginning with the letter
• A F 2nd floor
• G P 3rd floor
• Q 4th floor
• R Z 5th floor
• To check out books, youll need your student ID
• Books are checked out at the Circulation Desk

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Books Not Located in the Library

• and by that we mean electronic books
• When you search the Catalog, it searches for
  electronic books, too
• They are a part of a collection called Ebsco
  eBooks
• If you wish to use electronic books from home or
  off campus, you will simply login as though you
  were logging into the databases
• You can also search Ebsco eBooks independently of
  the Catalog

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Electronic Books in the Catalog
Just click on URL and the e-book will openIF
you are ON campus. If you are OFF campus you
will have to login to view the book.
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Electronic Book in the Catalog
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Ebsco eBooks
http//www.ulm.edu/library
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Ebsco eBooks
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Books Citing

• MLA recently changed the way resources are cited,
  particularly electronic resources
• MLA still uses the same format, but with the
  addition of the medium in which the resource
  appears and the removal of URLs from citations
  (except at the discretion of a writer or
  publication)
• The following example is based on the book we
  viewed in the Catalog

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Books Citing

• Brooke, Christopher N. Jane Austen Illusion and
  Reality. Rochester, NY Boydell and Brewer, Ltd.,
  1999. Web.
• If the Library actually had a physical copy, the
  citation would appear almost the same
• Brooke, Christopher N. Jane Austen Illusion and
  Reality. Rochester, NY Boydell and Brewer, Ltd.,
  1999. Print.

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Books Annotated Bibliography

• For this class, you will have to compile an
  annotated bibliography
• If youve ever done a bibliography or works cited
  page, youve done half of the work of an
  annotated bibliography
• The annotated part is the hard part, in so much
  as it requires a little more effort on your part

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Annotation

• The annotated part of annotated bibliography
  simply means that the bibliography contains, in
  addition to the citation, a brief paragraph that
  describes, evaluates, and/or analyzes the
  resource
• The length of the paragraph varies some sources
  say that it should be an average of 150 words,
  some sources say the length depends on the length
  of the source, or what kind of source it is
  (book, essay, article, etc.)

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Annotation

• Your professor should be your authority for this
  project he or she will indicate how long they
  wish the paragraph to be
• Remember the annotation is not meant to be a
  simple summary it should be descriptive and
  assess the resource critically and professionally
• Your professor might require that the annotation
  describe how the resource is relevant to your
  research, but thats up to the professor

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Length of the Bibliography

• The length of an annotated bibliography also
  varies it may depend on the discipline, the
  topic itself, the language of the resources
  involved (i.e., a bibliography may only contain
  French-language resources on a topic), etc.
• Again, in this case, your professor will indicate
  how many resources you will need to include in
  your bibliography and what kinds of resources
  books, articles, etc.

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Obtaining Resources

• Books are excellent for finding information for
  research of any sort, but there are other sources
• Databases are also excellent for finding
  information
• Most of our databases are periodical databases,
  which mean they contain articles from periodicals
  journals, magazines, and newspapers
• When you are evaluating periodicals for research,
  dont forget about scholarly versus popular!

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Databases

• In the past the only way to find articles was to
  consult voluminous print indexes and then hope
  that the library had the journal in which the
  article you wanted appeared
• Databases make searching for articles much easier
  by
• Eliminating duplicates (in most cases)
• Allowing simultaneous and cross-disciplinary
  searching
• Eliminating articles not available in full-text
• Filtering for scholarly/peer-reviewed articles
  only

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Databases

• The Library can provide you with access to over
  70 databases these databases provide you with
  access to thousands upon thousands of periodicals
• Most of the databases are available off-campus,
  but not all of them the database lists indicate
  which databases are not available off-campus
• Some databases require the creation of an account
  on campus in order to use them off campus the
  database lists indicate that, too

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Databases Articles
http//www.ulm.edu/library
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Databases by Name
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Databases by Subject
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Databases English
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Databases by Name
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Searching Literature Resource Center
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Searching JSTOR
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Databases Mentioned Today

• JSTOR
• Literature Resource Center
• Ebscohost
• Academic Search Complete
• Communication Mass Media Complete
• History Reference Center
• Literary Reference Center
• MAS Ultra
• MLA International Bibliography
• World History Collection

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Articles Citing

• Bagchi, Alaknanda. "Conflicting Nationalisms The
  Voice of the Subaltern in Mahasweta Devi's Bashai
  Tudu." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 15.1
  (1996) 41-50. Print.
• Langhamer, Claire. Love and Courtship in
  Mid-Twentieth-Century England. Historical
  Journal 50.1 (2007) 173-96. ProQuest. Web. 27
  May 2009.

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Internet Searching Briefly

• The most significant concern when conducting
  research on the Net is quality control it is
  sometimes difficult to determine the
  authenticity, authority, and/or provenance of an
  idea, expression, or artifact
• The upside to researching on the Net, however,
  is that more and more libraries and museums are
  digitizing materials and making them available
  and searchable (like primary source materials!)

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Internet Citing

• MLA no longer requires the presence of URLs in
  web-related citations. URLs may be added,
  however, at the discretion of an individual
  author (or professor). If you wish to include
  URLs, place URLs in brackets after the date of
  access.
• The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. The Writing Lab
  and OWL at Purdue and Purdue U, 2008. Web. 23
  April 2008.
• "How to Make Vegetarian Chili." eHow.com. eHow,
  n.d. Web. 24 Feb. 2009.

ltURL would go heregt
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Sample Annotation

• Lamott, Anne. Bird by Bird Some Instructions on
  Writing and Life. New York Anchor Books, 1995.
  Print.
• Lamott's book offers honest advice on the
  nature of a writing life, complete with its
  insecurities and failures. Taking a humorous
  approach to the realities of being a writer, the
  chapters in Lamott's book are wry and anecdotal
  and offer advice on everything from plot
  development to jealousy, from perfectionism to
  struggling with one's own internal critic. In the
  process, Lamott includes writing exercises
  designed to be both productive and fun.

This annotation was copied from the OWL at
Purdue and abbreviated.
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Q A Time
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Bibliography Research Resources

• Presentation URL
• http//www.ulm.edu/lowe/bibliography.ppt
• The OWL _at_ Purdue MLA
• http//owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01
  /
• OWL MLA Annotated Bibliography
• http//owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/1/
  
• My Website
• http//www.ulm.edu/lowe
• My email lowe_at_ulm.edu

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Thanks for coming!

• Remember if you need help, just ask a librarian!