1. HST201 Weimar Germany: Politics, Culture, Modernity Spring 2012 Michael Unsworth History Librarian unsworth@msu.edu

2. OUTLINE Decoding citations Retrieving Materials Online Reference Tools Performing Catalog Searches Locating Bibliographies Locating Primary Sources Journal Indexes Questions

3. RETRIEVING MATERIAL

5. MELCAT

9. 14 Digit ID Number

10. MELCAT

11. U-borrow

13. ILLIAD

15. RETRIEVING MATERIAL: WORLDCAT

16. WORLDCAT

18. ILLIAD

22. MAX REINHARDT’S THE MIRACLE

23. FREE CORPS

24. German Caberet

25. BIBLIOGRAPHIES “…the compiler of a BIBLIOGRAPHY acts as a scholarly research assistant, providing a summary of what is available in one easy-to-use guide.” Meyer, Jack Allen. An annotated bibliography of the Napoleonic era: recent publications, 1945-1985 (New York : Greenwood Press, 1987): xi.

26. FROM A BOOK

27. FINDING BIBLIOGRAPHIES IN THE ONLINE CATALOG

31. Introduction

36. PRIMARY SOURCES: Definition “…items that are directly associated with their producer or user and the time period in which they were created. Examples, include diaries, newspapers articles, government documents, photographs, oral interviews, and news broadcasts.” SOURCE: Presnell, Jenny L. The information-literate historian : a guide to research for history students (New York : Oxford University Press, 2007): 93.

37. CAUTION: MEMOIRS

38. FROM A BOOK

39. sourcesmanuscripts archivesnotebooks, sketchbooks, etc. archival resourcespersonal narratives, American [Chinese, Finnish] correspondencepersonnel records diariesrecords and correspondence

40. NAZI IDEOLOGY

42. PRIMARY SOURCES: An Edited Publication

46. Introduction

47. Selection Criteria

51. FINDING ARTICLES

52. WAS HITLER GAY?

53. Getting Articles From Other Libraries

55. WOMEN IN WEIMAR

56. QUESTIONS

57. What was/were the most valuable thing(s) you learned today?

58. What are you not quite clear about from today’s session; what is muddy in your head?

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