1.) What is an authoritative source? 2.) How do you know if something is authoritative? 3.) What is a primary source? 4.) What is a secondary source? 5.) Why isn’t Wikipedia considered authoritative or scholarly? Do you think it fair that Wikipedia is so stigmatized? EXERCISE ONE

Library Catalog Journals Databases SEARCHING LIBRARY RESOURCES

Boolean operators: AND, OR, NOT Wildcard: * Virginia Woolf is spelled Woolf or Wolf? search W*lf Truncation: Searching illustr* will have results that includes the words illustrate, illustration, and illustrated Quotation Marks & Parentheses: "French Revolution” (Paris AND Normandy) OR Strasbourg SEARCHING DATABASES

THE INTERNET

SURFACE WEB vs. DEEP WEB

Search engine(s) Google Books Google Scholar SEARCH ENGINES

SEARCHING VIA SEARCH ENGINES Site:.edu Digital Libraries Collections “Use quotations” -Subtract words you don’t want

SEARCH TERMS & ORGANIZATION Term Related Term(s) ResourceCitation/URL transcendentalism Platonism metaphysics Emerson Searched Melville AND transcendentalism OR metaphysics Negotiating Transcendentalism, Ramón Espejo Romero, 2010 MLA Int. Bib.

1.) Using the MLA International Bibliography database find an article about Meville’s use of tattooing or Polynesean culture. The article must be written after ) Using Google find a university digital collection about whaling 3.) Using the library catalog find a resource in Archives and Special Collections about voyages. It must be in English and have been published between ) Find two resources in the library catalog that would be helpful for researching Moby-Dick’s “The Sermon” chapter. 5.) Using Artstor locate another collection that has images of Captain Cook or Captain Cook related travels. EXERCISE TWO