GE 111 J: The Power of Language

The reference collection provides background reading on your topic and related issues, names of authorities, and bibliographies that lead to additional sources. Remember that books on the shelves are grouped together by subject, so take time to browse the shelves!

The Timetables of History [RR D11 .G78 1991]
“A horizontal linkage of people and events.”

Chronology of World History 4v. [RR D11 .M39 1999]
Volume IV: 1901-1998: The Modern World.

The People's Chronology [RR D11 .T83]
"A year-by-year record of human events from prehistory to the present."

This Fabulous Century 8v. [RR E161 .T55 1969]
Prelude volume (1870-1900) through volume 7 (1960-1970). Includes many photographs depicting social life, popular culture, historical trends or important events.

American Eras: Development of the Industrial United States 1878 -1899 [RR E168 .A5118 1997]
Includes an introductory essay describing the time period, a bibliography, and a subject index.

American Chronicle: Year by Year Through the Twentieth Century [RR E169.1 .G68 1999]
All aspects of twentieth-century American life.

Encyclopedia of Rural America: The Land and People 2v. [RR E169.12 .E5 1997]
See also: Encyclopedia of Urban America: The Cities and Suburbs 2v. [HT123 .E5 1998]

The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates [RR E174.5 .C3 1993]
Year by year account of developments in American government, arts, business, science, sports, fashion, etc.

Almanacs of American Life: Modern America 1914 to 1945 [RR E766 .G74 1995]

Encyclopedia of World Sport 3v. [RR GV567 .E56 1996]
Covers sports related topics from ancient times to the present.

Sports Encyclopedia – North America 5v.+ [RR GV581 .S65 1987]
Baseball (Professor Wee’s favorite pastime) is covered in both Volumes 4 and 5.

Encyclopedia of American Social History 3v. [RR HN57 .E58 1993]
Essays on periods and processes of social change, construction of social identity, ethnic and racial subcultures, regionalism, patterns of everyday life, and social problems.

Women’s Progress in America [RR HQ1410 .F76 1994]

The CQ Researcher [ RR H35 .E35 1991
Weekly reports from Congressional Quarterly providing comprehensive coverage of contemporary social issues. Use subject index in the latest volume to locate appropriate issues.

Encyclopedia of Student and Youth Movements [RR LA186 .B87 1998]
Includes those events, organizations, and people that had either a large impact at the time of their appearance or a large influence on subsequent events.

History of St. Olaf College [RR LD4827 .S62 S5]
Use this in addition to The Manitou Messenger and The Viking [LD4827 .S65 1973]

Dear Old Hill [RR LD4827 .S62 S4 1992] and History of St. Olaf College, 1874-1974 [RR LD4827.S62 S5]
Additional copies of both books can also be found in Rolvaag stacks.

Bridge catalogs resources available at St. Olaf and Carleton libraries. Use Bridge to search for books and periodicals, but not chapters within books or articles within periodicals.

You may search Bridge by Title, Author, Keyword or Subject. Try combining relevant terms or concepts in Keyword search to focus your search (e.g. "immigra* and minnesota"). Use asterisk (*) to truncate words (e.g. immigra* will retrieve immigrant, immigrants, immigration, etc.)

You may request materials housed at Carleton directly from Bridge by clicking on the "Request" button.

These are only some of the indexes you may use. Consult Indexes on the Libraries' webpage for the entire list.

Academic Search Premier
A multidisciplinary database with access to over 8040 scholarly and popular publications, many in full-text. Covers 1975 to present.

MasterFILE Premier
A general multidisciplinary database to mostly popular publications. Includes biographies, reference books, primary source documents, maps and photos. Covers 1975 to present.

JSTOR
Amulidisciplinary index to and full text of select, academic journals.

Project Muse
An index to and full text of journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and other scholarly publishers.

Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature [RR AI3 .R48] 1890-
Index to magazines and reviews arranged in one alphabet that includes both authos and subject headings.

Physical Education Index
An index to articles about dance, health, physical education, physical therapy, recreation, sports and sports medicine, biomechanics, kinesiology, coaching, facilities, motor learning and perception

America: History and Life
Scholarly index to articles on all aspects of U.S. and Canadian history, including recent events.

Sociological Abstracts
Shares same interface as Physical Education Index and PsycINFO. You can search across all these databases at once.

LexisNexis Academic Universe
Provides access to full-text articles in national and international newspapers.

The New York Times Index [RR AI21 .N45]
Paper index dating back to 1894. A searchable archival index (1851 to 1995) to NYT is also available on the Internet at http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nytimes/advancedsearch.html

COLLEGE ARCHIVES

The College Archives, located on level 1 in Rolvaag Library, is a "repository of historical materials relating to the founding and growth of the college." It contains "correspondence, minutes, reports, publications, photographs, audio tapes, video tapes, artifacts and related materials" donated mostly by the college constituents.

To locate archival materials, search The Collections, Manitou Messenger, and Alumni Magazine , an online database indexing books, catalogs, manuscripts, negatives, photos, yearbooks and more, including abstracts of each issue of the Manitou Messenger, the student newspaper of St. Olaf College, and full-text articles from the Alumni Magazine.

INTERLIBRARY LOAN

Any item not owned by St. Olaf may be ordered through Interlibrary Loan (ILL) provided you allow enough time. Use electronic delivery (MEDD) for articles to shorten delivery time.

Go to Scholarly Websites from the library home page or search on your own. Useful site to try is American Memory, maintained by the Library of Congress, with vast resources of digitized American historical materials. See especially Today in History, one of collections included in American Memory.

If you choose to search on your own, remember to evaluate each site critically for authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency, and coverage. Evaluating Internet Research Sources is a good succinct guide to evaluating websites.

Proper use of textual citations, notes and bibliographies is essential. In addition to the information found in MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers Sixth Edition [RR LB2369 .G53 2003, you may wish to consult:
MLA Style
Choose MLA Style => Frequently Asked Questions => How do I document sources from the World Wide Web in my works-cited list?

GE 111-I THE POWER OF LANGUAGE

Fall 2004

LIBRARY RESOURCES FOR RESEARCH (1874 - 1986)