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Title: 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

8
subject search results
  • Case insensitive, no punctuation necessary
  • Subject headings list
  • Subdivisions
  • Downloading options
  • Clickable fields
  • Views basic full

9
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/

13
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/
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