ENGL 292-02: Library Research

Mackenzie Brooks

Assistant Professor & Digital Humanities Librarian

brooksm@wlu.edu // Leyburn M37

May 11, 2016

Agenda

• Understand how the library works
• Be able to Search Everything
• Have a framework for evaluating sources
• Research workshop!

How the Library Works

How the Library Works

Collections + People

Search Everything is:

• a discovery tool/system/service
• something we pay for
• potentially biased
• one of the best of its kind
• still not perfect
• constantly changing

Research!?!

words of wisdom

1. Research is iterative.

2. Information overload = filter failure.

3. There is no perfect source. There is no perfect database.

4. Interlibrary loan + Zotero = your friends

5. Brainstorm search terms.

Internet sources

• Google Scholar
• Digital Public Library of America
• NYPL Digital Collections