Title Text
HIST 2P08
Library Workshop
Me, your librarian
Finding and evaluating information
John Dingle
Help with....
Refining a research topic
Managing and citing sources
- Starting points for research
- Search strategy and techniques
- Annotated Bibliography Workshop
- Search problems
Today:
Broadest search
Get to know the filters
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Activity
Start at brocku.ca/library
Find a book about women in Latin America, published in the last 20 years
Explain your process
Books and ebooks
Best way to find related books
Activity - Catalogue
Find each book. How would you access it?
- People and Issues in Latin American History. The Colonial Experience: Sources and Interpretations
- The Cambridge History of Latin America. Volume 1. Colonial Latin America
Subject-specific search engines
Historical Abstracts
Mostly journal articles
World History 1450-present
Excludes Canada and USA
Proquest Dissertations and Theses
PhD and MA theses
All subject areas
Research Guide
Activity - Research Guide
On what page of the History guide can you find these resources?
America’s Historical Imprints (Early American Imprints)
Historical Abstracts with full text
Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia
Search Strategy
1. Search techniques and keywords
2. Finding related items with subject headings
3. Finding primary sources
Activity
Go to Historical Abstracts
With a partner, compare the results of each pair of searches.
Which returns more results? Can you explain the difference?
1. latin america VS "latin america"
2. america VS america*
3. indigenous OR native VS indigenous AND native
Techniques
- Use quotation marks for phrase searches: “Latin America”
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Use truncation for variant word endings: child* retrieves child, children, childhood, childlike, childish
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Use OR for synonyms: indigenous OR native
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Use AND to combine two different concepts: slaves AND missionaries
Subject Headings
Subject headings are a powerful way to find related items
Subject Headings
Activity
You are looking for a book on conquistadors. What subject heading(s) would you use for a successful search?
You are looking for a book on Spanish missionaries to the new world. What subject headings would you use for a successful search?
Use the library catalogue to answer these questions
Primary sources
Add one of the following terms to your search in SuperSearch or the catalogue. They work best when you add them to a "subject" box:
- personal narratives
- sources ***
- diaries
- letters
- correspondence
- interviews
Primary sources
SuperSearch
Catalogue
Visual sources
Digital Libraries
ArtStor - images from galleries and museums world wide
World Digital Library - digitized items, maps, artifacts, images
Special Collections at other Libraries
Annotated Bibliography
Research Help
Thank you!
Questions?
Title Text HIST 2P08 Library Workshop
HIST 2P08
By jdingle
HIST 2P08
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