Finding 15th 19th Century Authors

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American Literature I

• Finding 15th - 19th Century Authors
• Connie St. Clair-Andrews

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Simple vs. Advanced Searching

• Allows you to search for broad information, or
  very specific information
• You use the simple search to find an author or
  title
• One search term/phrase at a time

• Allows you to build a more detailed/accurate
  search
• Several search terms/phrases at a time
• More options for limiting your search

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Some Advanced Search Techniques

• Use simple Boolean And, Not, Or
• Use truncation Shift 8
• Use the Thesaurus, Topics, etc.
• ILL if the article is not available here

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Keyword vs. Subject Searching

• Words you think of to use for searches, aka,
  natural language
• Some databases provide a thesaurus to look up
  similar words or the official term they are not
  always called a thesaurus.

• Official words in a database or catalog, aka,
  controlled language
• Try the subject terms found in one catalog in
  your other database searches too. Sometimes you
  can find more/different articles.

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Author vs. Subject Search

• An author search is when you search only for
  those books written by the author.
• Sometimes you get books the author is a co-author
  on, but usually if the book is an anthology it
  will not show up in the list.

• A subject search is when you get books about the
  author, titles they penned, or the genre they
  wrote in.
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• Genre is fiction, non-fiction, westerns,
  autobiography, etc.

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Author Call Numbers

• Christopher Columbus
• Alvar Nunez Cabez de Vaca.........
• William Bradford...
• Cotton Mather....
• John Greenleaf Whittier..
• Jonathan Edwards...
• Thomas Paine.
• J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeaur
• Philip Freneau.
• Judith Sargent Murray.
• William Apess
• Black Hawk.
• Lydia Maria Child...

• E118 .C72
• E125 .N9
• F68
• (catalog search, all over the place)
• PS3250 .E
• (catalog search, all over the place)
• JC117 .A5
• (catalog search, all over the place)
• PS755 .A5 M3 1955
• ebrary book
• E83.67 .P54 A63 1985
• NetLibrary book
• PS1293 .C55 1975

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Author Call Numbers

• Rebecca Harding Davis
• Emily Dickinson.
• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper..
• Harriet Jacobs
• Frederick Douglass.
• Herman Melville
• Walt Whitman
• Ralph Waldo Emerson.
• Henry David Thoreau..
• Nathaniel Hawthorne..
• Edgar Allan Poe..
• James Fenimore Cooper..

• PS1517 .L5 1985
• PS1541
• F292 .O5 H37 1981
• Ebrary book, anthology
• Electronic books
• PS2384
• PS320
• PS160 PS1631
• PS3042 PS3053
• (catalog search, all over the place)
• PS26
• PS140

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Subject Call Numbers

• Christopher Columbus .........
• Barolome de las Casas
• Alvar Nunez Cabez de Vaca...........
• William Bradford..
• Anne Bradstreet
• Cotton Mather.....
• John Greenleaf Whittier.
• Sarah Josepha Hale.
• Jonathan Edwards..
• Roger Williams..
• Thomas Paine...
• Philip Freneau...
• Phillis Wheatley.
• Judith Sargent Murray
• Fanny Fern/ Sarah Willis Parton..

• E111
• F1411 E125 .C4
• E125 .N9
• (catalog search, all over the place)
• PS712
• (catalog search, all over the place)
• PS3281 .P5 1969
• netLibrary book
• BX7260 .E3
• F82 .W
• JC178 .V2 electronic books
• PS758 .L4 1971
• Electronic books
• Electronic books
• (catalog search, all over the place)

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Subject Call Numbers

• Sojourner Truth.
• William Apess...
• Black Hawk...
• Lydia Maria Child..
• Rebecca Harding Davis..
• Emily Dickinson
• Harriet Jacobs
• Frederick Douglass
• Herman Melville
• Walt Whitman..
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Henry David Thoreau.
• Nathaniel Hawthorne.
• Edgar Allan Poe.
• James Fenimore Cooper.

• (catalog search, all over the place)
• Electronic books
• Electronic book
• Electronic book
• Electronic books
• PS1541 .Z5
• Electronic books
• E449 .D75
• PS2386
• PS3231
• PS1631
• PS3053
• PS1881 PS1888
• PS26
• PS1431

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Inter-Library Loan

• You can request both books and articles via the
  online ILL form or you can fill out one of the
  paper forms available at the circulation desk.
• Also Peggy Dyess requests that you order your
  materials no later than two weeks before you need
  them. This will give her time to request the
  items needed in time for them to arrive for you
  to work with.

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Databases

• American National Biography Online
• ArchiveGrid
• ALTA Religion Database
• JSTOR
• Literature Online
• Philospher's Index

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Related Resource Guides

• American Indian Identity http//www.flagler.edu/li
  brary/indianidentity.html
• Emily Dickinson http//www.flagler.edu/library/emi
  lydickinson.html
• Ralph Waldo Emerson http//www.flagler.edu/library
  /ralphemerson.html
• Native American Literature and Legends
  http//www.flagler.edu/library/nativeamerican.html
  
• Historical Photographs Online http//www.flagler.e
  du/library/hsyphotographs.html
• Searching for Primary Resources
  http//www.flagler.edu/library/primary.html

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Websites

• American Memory from the Library of Congress
• Library of Southern Literature
• American Literature Sites compiled list of
  relevant websites
• Perspectives in American Literature