Dr. Glen Harris Ms. Sue Cody

Your Current Research Skills? How would you rate your current research skills? Strong Satisfactory Needs improvement Poor What causes you the most anxiety/confusion/frustration? What are your favorite sources for historical research?

Our plan for the week Review Research Guide for this course.Research Guide Explore various finding aids. Learn to identify primary sources. Become familiar with special services. Interlibrary Loan Ask a librarian

Where to get help Learning Commons Help Desk In person Telephone Chat Text By Appointment Contact me directly:

Finding Articles Home page Article Search (Integrated search) Databases A-Z Individual databases Databases by Subject Quick Search (Integrated search) Individual databases Citation Searching

Search tips And, Or, Not And narrows Or adds synonyms/related Not excludes (use carefully) Miscegenation in Film Miscegenation or? Film or?

More Search Tips Truncate for word variations Film* = film or films or filming or filmmaking Words anywhere or phrase? Black Girl or “Black Girl” Field-specific searches “Jungle Fever” in title

Database Exploration Library Homepage Article Search America: History & Life Jstor International Index to Performing Arts Film Literature Index

Journal Holdings & Access Follow the citation trail! Search your citation Does the library have it? What format or location? What online access?

Working from a known citation Gosselin, Adrienne Johnson. "Racial Etiquette and the (White) Plot of Passing: (Re)Inscribing 'Place' in John Stahl's Imitation of Life." Canadian Review Of American Studies 28, no. 3 (1998): 47. Roth, Marty. “’Yes, My Darling Daughter’": Gender, Miscegenation, and Generation in John Ford's "The Searchers." New Orleans Review 18, n. 4 (1991):

Working from a known citation “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” Ebony January Heer, David M. “Negro-White Marriage in the United States.” Journal of Marriage and the Family 28 (August 1966):

Let’s take a break!

Finding Books Library Catalog local & UNCP/FSU WorldCat 9,000 libraries billion items Google Books 12 million 7 million full-text) Google Books Project Gutenberg 33,000 books) Project Gutenberg Some databases lead to books Cited directly Book reviews

Randall Online Catalog: Keyword vs. Subject Searching What’s the difference? What is a useful Subject Heading for Miscegenation and Hollywood? Start with a keyword search, then look for subjects in the records retrieved.

Keyword/Subject features Keyword Finds words anywhere in record. Look at records to see subject headings. Search lots of terms, word variations Subject Headings Controlled vocabulary May not be “natural language” but may find more Hierarchical arrangement helps narrow topic Searches only the subject field

Suggested Subject Headings Check headings in records you find by keyword or other searches Use the LCSH database. In the catalog, search by any segment of a heading – rotated display Same terms used in WorldCat

Searching Personal Names Keyword searches Either order Try name variations, e.g., initials Author/Subject Last name first, e.g. Lee, Spike

Online Catalog links Subjects for related items Call numbers for related items (usually) Library of Congress outline SuDoc arranges by agency Cover, summary, reviews Location maps Expanding search to UNCCLC Add to Bag/Add to My Lists

Search the Catalog Check to see what sources Randall Library has on your topic.

Finding Books – LC Call Nos. Alpha-numeric Single letters before double First number is a whole number Everything after the decimal point is a decimal value.

WorldCat May find items at Randall that catalog search didn’t (records enhanced later) Finds items for ILL requests Rare items not lent Rare items may be reprinted & available Websites included – often w/ free access!

Interlibrary Loan Create an account/create a new account Username – UNCW domain name Password – UNCW password

Search Search for your topic in WorldCat

Secondary - Primary For Thursday: Find a relevant secondary source (book or article) with a bibliography. Review the bibliography to find a primary source. Copy the page with the primary source citation. Highlight citation for primary source. Complete exercise form; attach copy; bring to class.

Next Class Primary Sources What they are How to find them

What will you do when you have questions?

Dr. Glen Harris Ms. Sue Cody

Primary Sources Dairies, journals, other writings of “players” Eyewitness/Observer accounts Memoirs, autobiographies (written later) Official documents Laws, treaties, reports, orders, transcripts of proceedings, addresses, etc. Advertisements (of the time) Images Movies!

Primary or Secondary? Scholarly article published in 2005 on racial taboos in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner Congressional Record explanation of HR 6097, a 1933 bill for supervision of motion pictures. An encyclopedia of African Americans in motion pictures An essay by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. entitled “Jungle fever : guess who's not coming to dinner?” published in a 1991 book. Collection of transcripts of interviews with movie directors New York Times review of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner written in The movie Jungle Fever

Randall Online Catalog & WorldCat Search general headings, use indexes Motion picture producers and director -- interviews Search specific headings or persons Stanley Kramer as author (Dkamer, Stanley) Look for items not tagged as primary source Primary documents may be included in secondary sources Eyewitness authors may not be tagged as sources

Randall Online Catalog & WorldCat Standard Subheadings Correspondence Diaries Interviews Personal narratives* Sources See guide for others

Periodicals and Newspapers New York Times Archive Readers’ Guide Retrospective Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective

Official Documents Lexis Nexis Academic Legal Lexis-Nexis Congressional HeinOnline Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications

Digital Collections See the Research Guide for more!

Bibliographies—Follow the trail Book-length (Reference Collection) Secondary sources (books and journal articles) Types Classified (easiest to find primary sources) Alphabetical Footnotes/Endnotes What did you find?

What will you do when you have questions?