Title: Library Overview
1NEWS FROM THE FIELD CRL News, May 2004Vol. 65,
No. 5, P. 247
2Library Research
- Senior Seminar
- American History
- Wednesday, October 5, 2005
- Librarian Jenna Freedman
3Library 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/
4library 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
5reference 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.
6CLIO - books, e-books, serials (not articles),
media materials, microforms, etc.
- http//www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/clio.ht
ml
7keyword 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
8subject search results
- Case insensitive, no punctuation necessary
- Subject headings list
- Subdivisions
- Downloading options
- Clickable fields
- Views basic full
9author 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?
10journals
- Brief
- Holdings
- Full
- Indexes, finding aids, notes
- Link to full text
11primary 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.
12databases - primarily articles, but also e-books,
dissertations, statistics and other materials
- http//www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/databas
es/
13ProQuest 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
14America 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
15JSTOR 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)
16other 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
17Other 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/
18guides
- 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
19etc.
- 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/