 Robert Byrne, Costume Designs, "Feste", Library of Congress Exhibitions, New York, September 19, 1935 |
Explorations in Literature
HEOP Summer 2007
Instructor: Alice Boone
Librarians: Karen Dobrusky,
Lois Coleman, Jenna Freedman
and Heidi Winston
|
SESSION 1:
CLIO, Colulmbia Libraries Information OnlineCLIO (Columbia Libraries Information Online) is the on-line catalog for the Barnard & Columbia Libraries. CLIO can be searched by author, title, subject and keyword. Help for searching CLIO is available on the Web CLIO opening screen. CLIO contains listings of books, journal titles and other non-print materials.
Sample Searches:
Title search: leave off the initial
article (the, an, la, etc.)
oxford companion to shakespeare
journal title: shakespeare quarterly
Author search: put last name, then
first name
melville herman
Finding a book about a person
or a subject: start with a Keyword
search using the most distinctive words associated with the topic. Then look for
useful subject headings and do a Subject search.
Keyword search: use: (" ") for a phrase, and use ? for
truncation (to find variant endings of a word)
danticat
women haiti?
"twelfth night" and (women or feminis?)
Subject search: use Library of Congress (LC) subject headings
shakespeare
melville herman
great britain history
women haiti
women great britain history
haiti social conditions
Limiting to books in Barnard Library: use the Pre-Select Limits or Post Limit option; can use with keyword and title searches only
Call numbers: Overview of the Library of Congress Classification Outline
Note that although the Barnard Library is in Lehman Hall, CLIO location Lehman means the Social Sciences library at Columbia; Barnard books have the location
SESSION 2: FINDING PERIODICAL ARTICLES &JOURNALS USING DATABASES
In the list of
Databases, which you can access from the
Barnard Library home page as well
as the
Columbia University Libraries home
page, there
are links to many databases and indexes which can be searched for citations, abstracts as
well as full-text
articles in various disciplines. Many databases have e-Links which will
search to see if the full-text of a particular item is available online through
CU Libraries. If you are unable to locate an item full-text search CLIO
directly for the journal title.
The following indexes and databases will probably be the most relevant to your research:
Humanities Full Text
Citations and abstracts for
articles in the humanities, including history, literature and more,
1984-present.
Search Tips: Use " " for a phrase; * for truncation, Use keyword option
MLA
Bibliography
Major database for literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Citations
for articles, dissertations, books, book chapters, etc. from 1963 to the
present.
Search Tips: Use keywords, use " " for a phrase; * for truncation
LION: Literature Online
English and American poetry, drama, prose, biographies, and secondary
sources, from the Anglo-Saxon period to the 20th century.
Search Tips: To find critical articles click on "Search criticism and
reference"
Phrase is assumed - use "and" if not a phrase; * for truncation.
JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive
Project Muse
Full-text articles from more
than 200 scholarly journals published by university presses in the arts,
humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Includes: Essays in Medieval Studies,
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies and more.
Search Tips: Use " " for a phrase; * for truncation
ProQuest Direct
Interdisciplinary and contains many full text articles, from 1971 and usually
1988 for full-text.
search tips: phrase assumed, * for truncation
Gender Studies Database
Interdisciplinary, women's studies, gender studies, feminist theory from 1972
to present. Includes citations and links to full-text.
Search tips: use keywords, "and" operator, * for truncation
SESSION 3: REFERENCE BOOKS and INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH
Use for:
| Title | Call Number |
| Historical Dictionary of the Elizabethan World | DA357 .W34 1999 |
| Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century | E169.1 .E626 2001 |
| Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures | F1406 .E515 2000 |
| Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture | F1406 .E53 1996 |
| African Caribbeans: A Reference Guide | F1629 .B55 A37 2003 |
| Encyclopedia of European Social History | HN373 .E63 2001 |
| Women of England: From Anglo-Saxon Times to the Present | HQ1599 .E5 W65 |
| Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism (Melville vols. 3, 29, 93, 123) | PN761 .N56 |
| Contemporary Literary Criticism (Danticat vols. 94, 139, 228) | PN771 .C59 |
| Short Story Criticism (Melville vols. 7, 46, 95) | PN3373 .S56 |
| British Writers (Shakespeare vol. 1) | PR85 .B688 |
| All Things Shakespeare | PR2892 .056 2002 |
| Oxford Companion to Shakespeare | PR2892 .094 2001 |
| Shakespearean Criticism (Twelfth Night vols. 1, 26, 34, 46, 62, 74, 85, 95, 105) | PR2965 .S43 |
| Plays of Shakespeare: a Thematic Guide | PR2987 .C28 2000 |
| HarperCollins Readers' Encyclopedia of American Literature (Melville, Danticat) | PS21 .B46 2002 |
| Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature (Melville, Danticat) | PS21 .E537 2004 |
| American Writers (Melville vol. 1) | PS129 .A55 |
| Dictionary of Literary Biography (Shakespeare 62, 172, 263; Melville 3, 74, 250) | PS129 .D5 and online |
| Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature (Danticat) | >PS153 .M56 G74 2005 |
| Herman Melville A to Z | PS2386 .A24 2001 |
| Companion to Melville Studies | PS2386 .C66 1986 |
OTHER LIBRARY CATALOGS
Click on
Other Library
Catalogs to search additional library catalogs.
www.barnard/columbia.edu/library/