1. Dr. Glen Harris Kristin Andrews andrewsk@uncw.edu

2. Your Current Research Skills? How would you rate your current research skills? Strong Satisfactory Needs improvement Poor What causes you the most anxiety/confusion/frustration? What are your favorite sources for historical research?

3. Our plan for the library sessions Review Research Guide for this course.Research Guide Explore various finding aids. Learn to identify primary sources. Become familiar with special services. Interlibrary Loan Ask a librarian

4. Where to get help Learning Commons Help Desk In person Telephone Email Chat Text By Appointment Contact me directly: andrewsk@uncw.eduandrewsk@uncw.edu

5. Resource Types Primary vs. Secondary (more next time) Articles Scholarly Popular Books Theses & Dissertations Websites

6. Finding Articles Home page Article Search (Integrated search) Databases A-Z Individual databases Databases by Subject Quick Search (Integrated search) Individual databases Citation Searching

7. Search tips And, Or, Not And narrows Or adds synonyms/related Not excludes (use carefully) Example: Miscegenation in Film Miscegenation or ? Film or ?

8. More Search Tips Truncate for word variations Film* = film or films or filming or filmmaking Words anywhere or phrase? Black Girl or “Black Girl” Field-specific searches “Jungle Fever” in title

9. Database Exploration Library Homepage Article Search America: History & Life JSTOR Film Literature Index Google Scholar

10. Working from a known citation Gosselin, Adrienne Johnson. "Racial Etiquette and the (White) Plot of Passing: (Re)Inscribing 'Place' in John Stahl's Imitation of Life." Canadian Review Of American Studies 28, no. 3 (1998): 47. Does the library have it? What format or location? Is there online access?

11. Try it yourself!

12. Finding Books Library Catalog local & UNCP/FSU WorldCat 9,000 libraries / ~1.2 billion items Google Books ( ~12 million / ~7 million full-text) Google Books Project Gutenberg (~40,000 books) Project Gutenberg Some databases lead to books Cited directly Book reviews

13. Keyword vs. Subject Searching Keyword Finds words anywhere in record. Look at records to see subject headings. Search lots of terms, word variations Subject Headings Controlled vocabulary May not be “natural language” but may find more Hierarchical arrangement helps narrow topic Searches only the subject field

14. Keyword vs. Subject in action What is a useful Subject Heading for Miscegenation and Hollywood? Start with a keyword search, then look for subjects in the records retrieved. Use subject headings to lead you to other titles Same terms used in WorldCat

15. Searching Personal Names Keyword searches Either order Try name variations, e.g., initials Author/Subject Last name first, e.g. Lee, Spike

16. Looking at the catalog record Item Info Location Call number Availability Online Access Cover, summary, reviews Subjects for related items Government Documents: SuDoc arranges by agency Expanding search to UNCCLC Request/Add to Bag/Add to My Lists

17. Finding Books – LC Call Nos. Alpha-numeric Single letters before double First number is a whole number Everything after the decimal point is a decimal value.

18. LC Call Numbers

20. WorldCat May find items at Randall that catalog search didn’t (records enhanced later) Finds items for ILL requests Rare items not lent Rare items may be reprinted & available Websites included – often w/ free access!

21. Try it yourself!

22. Interlibrary Loan Create an account/create a new account Username – UNCW domain name Password – UNCW password

23. Secondary - Primary Next Session: Find a relevant secondary source (book or article) with a bibliography. Review the bibliography to find a primary source. Copy the page with the primary source citation. Highlight citation for primary source. Complete exercise form; attach copy; bring to class.

24. Next Class Primary Sources What they are How to find them

25. What will you do when you have questions?

26. Kristin Andrews andrewsk@uncw.edu General Library Help http://library.uncw.edu

27. Dr. Glen Harris Kristin Andrews andrewsk@uncw.edu

28. Primary Sources Diaries, journals, other writings of “players” Eyewitness/Observer accounts Memoirs, autobiographies (written later) Official documents Laws, treaties, reports, orders, transcripts of proceedings, addresses, etc. Advertisements (of the time) Images Movies!

29. Primary or Secondary? Scholarly article published in 2005 on racial taboos in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner Congressional Record explanation of HR 6097, a 1933 bill for supervision of motion pictures. An encyclopedia of African Americans in motion pictures An essay by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. entitled “Jungle fever : guess who's not coming to dinner?” published in a 1991 book. Collection of transcripts of interviews with movie directors New York Times review of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner written in 1967. The movie Jungle Fever

30. Randall Catalog & WorldCat Search general subject headings Motion picture producers and director -- interviews Search specific headings or persons Stanley Kramer as author (Kramer, Stanley) Look for items not tagged as primary source Primary documents may be included in secondary sources Eyewitness authors may not be tagged as sources

31. Randall Catalog & WorldCat Standard Subheadings Correspondence Diaries Interviews Personal narratives* Sources See guide for others

32. Periodicals and Newspapers New York Times Archive Readers’ Guide Retrospective Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective

33. Official Documents Lexis Nexis Academic Legal Lexis-Nexis Congressional HeinOnline

34. Digital Collections See the Research Guide for more!

35. Bibliographies—Follow the trail Book-length (Reference Collection) Secondary sources (books and journal articles) Types Classified (easiest to find primary sources) Alphabetical Footnotes/Endnotes

36. What will you do when you have questions?

37. Kristin Andrews andrewsk@uncw.edu General Library Help http://library.uncw.edu