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SuperSearch

Activity

Start at brocku.ca/library

Find a book about women in Latin America, published in the last 20 years

Explain your process

Catalogue

Activity - Catalogue

Find each book. How would you access it? 

1. People and Issues in Latin American History. The Colonial Experience: Sources and Interpretations
2. The Cambridge History of Latin America. Volume 1. Colonial Latin America

"Databases"

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

researchguides.library.brocku.ca/HIST

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

1. Use quotation marks for phrase searches:  “Latin America”

2. Use truncation for variant word endings: child* retrieves child, children, childhood, childlike, childish

3. Use OR for synonyms:  indigenous OR native

4. 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

University of Toronto