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Library Research Guide
Reinventing Literary History
BC1201: First Year English
I
The Legacy of the Mediterranean
II The Americas
III Women and Culture
Librarians: Karen
Dobrusky,
Lois Coleman,
Jenna Freedman,
Heidi Winston |
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Group of young women
reading in library of normal school, Washington, D.C. Frances Benjamin
Johnston 1899. © Library of Congress. |
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English Department page for Reinventing Literary History
Using CLIO to Find Books |
Using Databases to Find
Articles
Other Resources on the Web
| Reference Services
| Bibliographic Software
For a list of reference books
available in the Barnard Library Reference area, and useful for helping
you to start your research in First Year English, click on the
following links:
Blackwell Reference Online
Gale Virtual Reference
Oxford Reference Online
Merriam Webster Dictionary
OED Oxford English Dictionary
Additional
resources for individual classes, by Professor's name:
USING
CLIO TO FIND BOOKS AND JOURNALS
You
can enter CLIO
from the Barnard
Library home page or from the Columbia University
Libraries home page.
- CLIO
(Columbia Libraries Information Online) is the catalog for the Columbia
University Libraries and includes Barnard Library's holdings, as well
as the holdings of the Health Sciences Library and Union Theological
Seminary libraries, and students with a CUID/UNI can use these
libraries.
- Search
Options:
Author search: put last name, then first
name
Title search: leave off the initial
article (The, An, La, etc.)
Journal Title search: type in the title of
the journal or as much as you know
Keyword search: use quotes for a phrase,
and use ? for truncation (to find variant endings of word)
Subject search: use Library of Congress
(LC) authorized search terms.
- Searching
Basics:
Boolean
operators AND, OR and NOT are used to narrow (AND, NOT) or
broaden (OR) a Keyword
search; click here
for information on how to use these operators.
Start with a Keyword
search using the most distinctive words associated with the topic, if
you aren't sure what the authorized terms are for your topic.
Then look in the book records for useful subject headings and do a Subject
search.
Limiting to books in Barnard Library: use
the Pre-set Limits or Post Limits options
Call numbers for literature and literary
criticism start with P (click here for
Information on the Library of Congress call number system).
Books that are entirely about a particular author are shelved next to
works by that author; for criticism on an author, find the correct call
number for the author and look on the shelf near it.
Finding commentaries or criticism of an
author's works: do a Subject search for the name of the author and look
for the subdivision Criticism and interpretation:
e.g. A subject search for dickinson emily finds a
list of Library of Congress (LC) authorized subject headings which
includes
Dickinson, Emily,
1830-1886--Bibliography.
Dickinson, Emily,
1830-1886--Biography.
Dickinson, Emily,
1830-1886--Concordances.
Dickinson, Emily,
1830-1886--Criticism and interpretation.
Barnard books: note that although the
Barnard Library is in Lehman Hall, the CLIO location "Lehman" means the
Social Sciences library at Columbia. Barnard books have the location
"Barnard"
USING INDEXES AND DATABASES TO FIND
PERIODICAL ARTICLES
These indexes and databases are all on the
Databases list on the Barnard Library home page.
All are available only to those with a Columbia University ID (if being
accessed from off-campus).
Searching Basics: |
- Keyword
searching in some databases requires the use of Boolean terms - AND or
OR between the search terms, or quotes to search for a phrase
- Truncation
in Keyword searching expands a search term to find all forms of a root
word, e.g. feminis* finds feminism, feminist, and feminists
- Look
at the Help files for a database to get more details on how to
search
- Click
on "e-Link" next to a citation to find out if an article is online, or
do a journal title search in CLIO using the title of the journal in
which the article appears
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Gender Studies |
- Citations
for articles on women's studies, gender studies, feminist theory and
criticism, published from 1972 to the present
- Use
keywords; to find an exact phrase use quotes " "; for truncation
use *
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Humanities Full Text |
- Citations
and abstracts for articles, book reviews, etc. in world archaeology,
art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music,
performing arts, philosophy, religion, world literature, and world
history, from 1984 to the present
- To
eliminate book reviews, limit Document Type to "Feature" articles
- Use
keywords; to find an exact phrase use quotes " "; for truncation
use *
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JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive |
- A
full text database of articles from a large number of scholarly
journals, from the beginning of the journal but excluding the most
recent 3-5 years; includes African American studies, anthropology,
classical studies, education, history, language and literature,
philosophy, political science, sociology and more
- Use
the Advanced Search for more precise searching; for truncation use %
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LION: Literature Online |
- A
library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry,
drama, and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies, and over 200
full-text journals and other key criticism and reference sources
- To
find critical articles, click on "Search: Criticism and Reference"
- Use * for truncation
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MLA: Modern Language Association Bibliography |
- Citations
for articles, books, book chapters, dissertations etc. on literature,
linguistics, language and folklore published from 1963 to the present,
many in foreign languages
- Use keywords; to find an
exact phrase use quotes " "; for truncation use *
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Project Muse: Scholarly Journals Online |
- Full-text
articles from more than 300 journals in literature and criticism,
history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education,
political science, gender studies, economics and many other subjects
- Usually
includes last several years of the journal only
- Use keywords; to find an
exact phrase use quotes " "; for truncation use *
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ProQuest |
- Full
text articles and citations for articles from newspapers, magazines and
scholarly journals
- For
scholarly journals, click on the "Scholarly Journals" tab above the
listing of citations
- Use
keywords; phrase is assumed-use "and" between keywords; for truncation
use *
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OTHER
RESOURCES ON THE WEB
Selected Web Sites
- A
Celebration of Women Writers: a collection of texts and
information by and about women writers
- Online Books Project from Columbia, E-texts that were made
available at Columbia as part of the A.W. Mellon Foundation-funded
"Online Books Project" (1995-1999)
- Online Books
Page: listing of online books from the University
of Pennsylvania
- Project
Gutenberg: an extensive web site with online books
- Literature
Online from Gale: full searchable library of more than
350,000 works of English and American literature
- Online Literary Criticism Collection: contains links to over
4,000 critical and biographical websites about authors and their
works, from IPL, the Internet Public Library
- Voice
of the Shuttle: a
huge collection of links to web pages for humanities research,
including literature of all periods, history, linguistics, media
studies, philosophy, etc.
Subject
Guides on the Barnard and Columbia Libraries Homepages
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Subject
Guides page, available on the Barnard Library
homepage, includes subject guides on anthropology, art
history, dance, literature, medieval studies, political science,
psychology, religion, science, sociology, theater, women's studies,
etc.
The
Barnard Library subject guide for
Literature lists many useful resources |
The
Columbia
Subject Guides page, available from Columbia University
Libraries, includes guides to African-American Studies,
American Studies, Electronic Text Resources, Humanities &
History, Latin American Studies, Women's Studies, and many other topics.
Additional
Resources
Web
search tools and evaluation criteria from Columbia University
Libraries.
E-Resources:
List of electronic resources from Columbia University Libraries.
Includes E-News, E-Images, E-Music & more.
Writing,
Planning and Researching Help
Documenting
Sources in MLA Style from Diana Hacker's
Bedford Handbook is available online.
MLA
Formatting and Style Guide is a guide for writing research
papers.
consult the MIT
Writing Center or the Paradigm
Online Writing Assistant for
help with selecting a topic, writing an outline, dealing with
writer’s block, etc.
Evaluation
Criteria for Websites - The Good, The Bad & The Ugly:
or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources, and how to do it.
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instructional presentations from various college libraries: |
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Other Libraries' Catalogs
Those with Columbia ID have access to the libraries of
Teachers’ College and Columbia Law School, but they are not
included in CLIO. NYC residents can also use New York Public
Library.
You can search CLIO, EDUCAT and Pegasus simultaneously by clicking on Search
all CU Catalogs on the top right of the
CLIO screen.
To search these catalogs separately, use the
Other
Library Catalogs list on the Barnard or Columbia Libraries
home page, or the following links:
Request It
Click on Request It
to obtain Books and Articles not available on the Morningside Campus
through Borrow Direct, Interlibrary Loan, Health Sciences/Morningside
delivery service and Science Fast Track. A University UNI is necessary
in order to use these services.
BARNARD
LIBRARY REFERENCE SERVICES
The Reference
Department is available to assist you with your library
research and teach you how to use our print and electronic
resources. Here you can find information about consultations,
Instant Messenger Reference, Live Chat Reference, Library and Reference
hours and more. We have a librarian at the reference desk for most of
the hours that the library is open. We welcome you to come to the desk
and ask questions.
Live Chat Reference: Monday
through Friday, 1 - 5 p.m., you can chat online with a Columbia or
Barnard librarian. Click on the Ask
Us Now link on the Barnard Library homepage or on Columbia
LibraryWeb.
IM/Instant Messaging:
You can also IM
a librarian when one of us is logged in. For more information:
IM
web page
Consultation with a Reference Librarian:
Complete a Consultation
Request Form to send to the library requesting a consultation
if you are having difficulty with your research.
Research
Skills Worksheet:
Click here
for a Library Research Skills Worksheet to print out which will enable
you to test and improve your library research skills.
REFWORKS
BIBLIOGRAPHIC SOFTWARE
RefWorks is a bibliographic
software package that is available, free of charge, to all current
Barnard and Columbia students, faculty and staff, and is available by
signing up for an individual account on the RefWorks Website:
RefWorks
allows you to export citations from library catalogs and databases,
store them in lists that you create, and cite them in papers and
bibliographies using any citation style you choose. For
further information about RefWorks, consult the page http://www.barnard.edu/library/refworks.htm.
Last Modified
10/15/08
Karen Dobrusky,
Lois Coleman,
Jenna Freedman
and Heidi Winston,
Reference Librarians
Barnard College Library
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