Mackenzie Brooks
Assistant Professor & Digital Humanities Librarian at Washington and Lee University
WRIT 100: Library Research + DH
Mackenzie Brooks
Assistant Professor & Digital Humanities Librarian
English Department Liaison
Leyburn 218 // brooksm@wlu.edu
February 9, 2017
By the end of this session, you will...
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Understand how a library works.
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Be able to "search everything."
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Have a starting place for Digital Humanities
How the Library Works
How the Library Works
Collections + People
https://www.flickr.com/photos/8601342@N03/4549779936/
Libraries Before the Internet
Libraries After the Internet
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
Everything =
- 384,267 e-books
- 94,735 e-journals
- 513,255,675 records
- 975,050 catalog items (mostly print)
- 1.5 billion citations
- 90 content types
Remember
You have to tell Search Everything that you know what you're looking for.
Also
If Search Everything is too much, try a discipline-specific database.
A-Z Database > limit by subject
A word on Google Scholar...
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. Have fun!
Zotero is your friend.
library.wlu.edu/zotero
What is Digital Humanities?
http://digitalhumanities.wlu.edu/
People:
- Mackenzie Brooks
- Brandon Bucy
- Brandon Walsh
- Elizabeth Teaff
- Emily Cook
Spaces
- Video Editing Suite, Leyburn
- Mac Lab, Leyburn
- Wilson 3027 (swipe access)
WRIT 100-09: Library Research + DH (Ruiz)
By Mackenzie Brooks
WRIT 100-09: Library Research + DH (Ruiz)
Library research presentation for WRIT 100-09 // February 9, 2017 // Prof. Mackenzie Brooks
