HIST 206 Library Workshop

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HIST 206 Library Workshop

• History of European women Information
  resources
• Welcome!
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• 2. select Authenticate, then type your ID PW
• 3. minimize authentication window
• 4. open Internet Explorer and go to
  http//www.library.ualberta.ca/

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Session outline

• Finding books
• Library Reserves, NEOS Library Catalogue
• Finding articles
• Subject Databases
• Journals
• full-text online or in print
• GetIt citation linker
• Primary sources what? where?
• Help needed? Ask us!

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Remember

• Always start from the Librarys website
• http//www.library.ualberta.ca/
• Why?
• Authentication for restricted resources limited
  to universitys IP range
• our proxy server will assign a temporary IP
  address when you enter your CCID
• Google doesnt search databases

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Library Reserves

• books and articles that your instructors selected
  put on reserve for you

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Reference materials Introductionto a topic

• Encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies,
  lexicons
• Most reference materials are books, available in
  the Reference collection of the library or
  online. All of them are listed in the Librarys
  catalogue.
• Online collections of reference materials
• History Resource Center World (Reference
  section)
• History Reference Online

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Encyclopedias Dictionaries

• Encyclopedia of feminist theories HQ 1190 E63
  2000
• Encyclopedia of Russian women's movements (2001)
• Encyclopedia of women social reformers HQ 1236
  R29
• Historical Dictionary of Feminism HQ 1115 B65
  2004
• International encyclopedia of women's suffrage
• Routledge international encyclopedia of women
• HQ 1115 R69 2000 v. 1-4
• Women's studies encyclopedia HQ 1115 W972 1999

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Biographical information

• A to Z of women in world historyHQ 1123 K84
  2002  HT Coutts Reference
• Ahead of their time a biographical dictionary of
  risk-taking women
• Biographical dictionary of women's movements and
  feminisms in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern
  Europe
• Norton book of women's lives CT 3235 A1 N882 1993

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Searching the Library Catalogue

• The Librarys Catalogue is a dB that includes
  everything that our library has books, maps,
  journals, videos, music recordings, etc.
• All titles that I mentioned so far are listed in
  the librarys catalogue
• You will also see other librarys holdings, and
  will be able to borrow from those libraries

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• If you know the books
• Title
• Author
• Subject

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Excercise

• 1. How many books can you find in the Catalogue
  written by Florence Nightingale?
• 2. How many books can you find in the Catalogue
  written about Emmeline Pankhurst?

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If you have a topic

• Topic Russian women in the work force
• Broad concepts Women and Russia

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Topic Russian women in the work force

• KEYWORDS
• women, females
• Russia, Soviet Union
• work, employment, labour/labor

• CONCEPTS
• women
• Russia
• work

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Exercise

• Search the Library catalogue for
• Books written in English about the topic
• Womens rights in Eastern Europe
• hints use advanced search
• limit by language

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Primary sources

• What is a primary source?A record of a
  first-hand observation of an event, an original
  work of fiction or art, or a report of scientific
  research. Examples
• Personal narratives, diaries, reminiscences,
  memoirs, autobiographies, correspondence
• newspaper magazine articles
• Speeches addresses

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Finding Primary Sources

• To search in the catalogue
• add keyword sources to your search terms

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Advanced search in the Catalogue

• Correspondence of Florence Nightingale

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Primary sources collections

• examples
• Gerritsen Collection of Womens History Online
• British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
• Defining Gender, 1450-1910
• Early English Books Online
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online
• History Resource Center World (s. Primary
  documents)
• The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985
• Women, War and Society, 1914-1918

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Excercise

• Search the Gender Studies Database articles
  about
• Anti-feminism in Britain
• hint both concepts have more than one keyword
• anti-feminist, anti-feminism
• Britain, United Kingdom

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Exercise

• Search the Historical Abstracts database for
  information about
• The Bluestocking Circle

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• Remember
• UofA Library subscribes to numerous online
  resources in your subject area
• you have access to all from anywhere if
• you access through the Librarys website
  www.library.ualberta.ca
• when asked, you authenticate with your CCID
• many resources are not yet online

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• This presentation is available online with the
  title HIST 206 from the following Subject pages
• Womens studies
• http//www.library.ualberta.ca/subject/womenstudie
  s/index.cfm
• History (General)
• http//www.library.ualberta.ca/subject/historyall/
  index.cfm
• Thank you for coming to the workshop!