1. Librarian Jenna Freedman
Library Research for
First Year English:
Women & Culture
Professor Auran
Tuesday, October 18, 2010
Librarian Jenna Freedman
15 students

2. This is the portal to all knowledge. Or, if you insist, Library Web
This is the portal to all knowledge.
Or, if you insist, Library Web

3. we can help you http://library.barnard.edu/contact
Visit the research desk
IM BarnardReference: AOL, Google, Yahoo
Call
Text (386.BARNARD)
You are not bothering us. This is what we are here for. We know that you’re smart and self-sufficient, but some of these resources may be new to you. We will not think any less of you if you ask for help! (IF we were judgmental people, the students we would think were dumb would be the ones who wander around and don’t get what they need because they didn’t ask for help!)

4. CLIO - books, e-books, serials (not articles), media materials, microforms, etc.
The Wife of Bath, Christine de Pizan, and the Medieval Case for Women. S. H. Rigby The Chaucer Review, Volume 35, Number 2, 2000, pp
search for a KNOWN item
Book or journal title (not the article or chapter title)
Send to phone

5. search for an unknown item
Keyword
Words that appear in any part of the record (author, title, publisher, etc.)
Fun with search results:
Sorting
Quick limits
Subject
Subject headings list
Subdivisions
More fun with search results:
Downloading options
Views: basic & full
Feminism in the wife of bath’s tale = 1
Try along with me
Feminis? in the wife of bath’s tale = 3
Feminis? In the w?fe of bath’s tale = 3
Feminis? W?fe of bath = 8
Feminis? “w?fe of bath” = 7
Chaucer, Geoffrey, d Canterbury tales.
Controlled vocabulary
PR275.W6 F
P = literature
PR = English literature
275 = Medieval. Middle English ( ) (PR )
W6 = women?
F46 = Feminist readings
1994 = year published

6. advanced search concepts
Boolean logic, operators
Controlled Vocabulary, descriptors, subject headings
Limits
Proximity, near, with, phrase
Truncation, wild cards
Always use proxy link.
Explain the rest as we go

7. databases - primarily articles, but also e-books, dissertations, statistics and other materials
Explore:
Help
Truncation/wildcard symbols
Phrase searching, near, with
Advanced search and Boolean options
Controlled vocabulary
Different types of searches (e.g. citations, full text, keywords)
Limits
Subscription databases are NOT the same as websites. Some non-sub databases, too, as those provided by libraries and other academic institutions.
They know what's in each item (that CLIO only knows we have). Connected with e-link.
Listings by genre/format
A to Z, vs. subject lists
Assign four groups/individuals to look at:
LION
ProQuest
FindArticles
Google
Ten minutes for breakouts/twenty for show and tell
And demonstrate/report back:
TRUNCATION
BOOLEAN LOGIC
ADJACENCY
CONTROLLED VOCAB/COLLOCATION

8. Choose a database Find Articles Gender Studies
Literature Criticism Online
ProQuest

9. Sample searches Search terms to mix and match:
Feminis* AND “wife of bath”
What are the search options? E.g., keyword, text, title, etc.?
What truncation and wild card symbols does your database use, if any?
Can you eliminate book reviews?
Can you select articles and export/print/ them?
Can you use eLink to get to full text from a citation/abstract only article?
Any other features you like?

10. etc. First Year English research guide
Other library catalogs (JTS, Law, TC, and other institutions)
First Year English research guide
Evaluating resources: authority, scope, and audience.
Style Guides
RefWorks guide
Times when the web is best. Good for current info, things in public domain, such as gov’t publications.
Evaluating your results
Author/Publisher
Date/Currency
Bias
Best available?

11. some call numbers Antigone by Sophocles: PA4413.A7
As You Like It: PR2803 A1-2
Bible and women: BS1199.W7
Fairy tales: PN6071.F (and elsewhere)
Lais of Marie de France: PQ1494.L7
Metamorphoses by Ovid: PA6519.M9
Wife of Bath’s Tale: PR1868.W7
Gender and Shakespeare
Female Friendship in Shakespeare/the Lais of Marie de France
Androgyny in Antigone/Ovid
Fairy tales and gender: a comparison of a several tales
Old Testament women
Chaucer's Wife of Bath -- feminist or throwback?
Freud and Ovid/Freud and Fairytales