GE111K: Our World Through the Artistic
Lens
A Guide to Library Resources
Fall 2007
Reference
Materials
For overviews on your topic, for initial bibliographies, and for
the name of an expert in the field, it is useful to find scholarly,
disciplinary-based encyclopedia articles. Please consider brainstorming
with a Reference Librarian in addition to checking the following:
Best Customers: Demographics of Consumer
Demand [REF HC79.C6 R87 2005]
Contemporary Youth Culture: An International
Encyclopedia [REF HQ796 .C8154 2006, v. 1-2]
Encyclopedia of Agricultural, Food,
and Biological Engineering [REF TP368.2 .E57 2003]
Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America
[REF TX349 .E45 2004, v.1-2]
Encyclopedia
Britannica ONLINE! <http://search.eb.com/>
Grove
Music Online ONLINE! <http://www.grovemusic.com/index.html>
International Encyclopedia of Adolescence
[REF HQ796 .I58 2007, v.1-2]
The Oxford Encyclopedia to Theatre and
Performance [REF PN2035 .O92 2003, v.1-2]
Youth, Education, and Sexualities
[REF LC192.6 .Y68 2005, v.1-2]
Traditional
Encyclopedias & Wikipedia
Even Wikipedia itself will warn
you not to use it as a major source for a research paper/project.
That said, Wikipedia can still serve as a very useful tool in
the process of locating reliable information. We'll cover
this in class.
Finding
Books: Searching the Bridge Catalog
The Bridge
Catalog is the online catalog for both St. Olaf and Carleton College.
Use Bridge to search
for books on your topic.
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Use a Simple Keyword search if you do not know
the subject or wish to combine more than one idea, e.g. [music
and psychology] Use an asterisk (*) to search various endings
(e.g. "music*" will retrieve music, musician, musical,
etc.)
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Once you have found a relevant record, explore the Subject
Headings. The Subject Headings are links, so go ahead and
click on one if it seems relevant to your topic. You'll be taken
to more items with that designation.
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Use the limiting option to search for different
types of material (e.g. videos, music recordings, government
documents), specific publication dates, or language.
You may request materials housed at Carleton directly
from Bridge by clicking on the  button.
Finding
Books: Searching Beyond Bridge
WorldCat
is a "catalog of catalogs" that provides records of
materials owned by libraries across the country and internationally.
This database, combined with our Interlibrary Loan services (see
below) allows you to use materials from throughout the country.
Finding
Journals: Searching the Periodicals Title List
To find out if we own a specific journal (in print
or electronic format), go to our Periodical
Title List and enter the journal name.
Electronic
Research Tools: Searching for Scholarly Articles
To access our many databases, select
"Electronic
Research Tools: Articles and More" from the library webpage.
Here are a select few that may be relevant to your topics:
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Subject-Specific
Databases
Agricola:
An index to books, journals, government documents, and reports
received by the National Agricultural Library. Covers 1970
to the present.
America:
History & Life: An index to approximately 2,800
journals, plus dissertations and books in North American
History. Covers 1964-present.
Art
Index: Indexes English-language art periodicals, plus
museum bulletins, bibliographies, film reviews, and conference
reports. Covers 1984 to the present.
Biology
Digest: Provides abstracts to literature in medicine,
health, zoology, botany, environmental science, and related
disciplines. Covers 1989 to the present.
Communication
Abstracts: Indexes journal articles and books about
communication, contemorary media, and popular culture.
GenderWatch:
A full-text collection of international journals,
magazines, and newsletters devoted to women's and gender
issues. Includes literature on the impact of gender and
gender roles on areas such as: the arts, popular culture
and media, education, family, politics, and religion. Coverage
back to the mid-1970s.
Historical
Abstracts: An index to history articles and books. Excludes
articles on North America (see America History &
Life, above). Covers material published from 1955 to
the present written about the time period 1450 to the present.
MLA
International Bibliography: Our primary databases to
literature and language articles. Covers 1923-present.
Philosopher's
Index: An index with abstracts to Philosophy books and
journals in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian.
PsycINFO:
Our primary psychology database. Indexes articles on the
psychology of sport and exercise.
Sociological
Abstracts: An index to 2600 sociology journals plus
book abstracts and review citations. Covers 1963-present.
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Multidisciplinary
Databases
Academic
Search Premier: An interdisciplinary database that is
fairly easy to use and provides the full-text to many
(not all) of the articles it cites. Always worth
searching!
JSTOR:
An index to and full text of select, academic journals in
the fields of language, literature, music, film studies, folklore,
performing arts, religion, and history.
LexisNexis
Academic: Provides access to a wide range of news, business,
legal, and reference information. Excellent source for full-text
articles in national and international newspapers. Also includes
"Medical News" and "Medical Journals"
search features.
New
York Times (1851-2004): Offers "full page and article
images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
The collection includes digital reproductions providing access
to every page from every available issue."
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Interlibrary
Loan
Any item not owned by St. Olaf or Carleton
may be ordered through Interlibrary Loan (ILL), provided you allow
enough time. Our ILL request software is called ILLiad. You'll
need to register in ILLiad the first time you use it. SEE
Interlibrary
Loan.
MLA
Citation Style
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While there are many web sites that may provide some information
on MLA style, the most comprehensive and reliable source is
the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. The
Modern Language Association defines proper MLA style, and
this manual, published by the MLA, clearly outlines how to
cite information of any material type (books, articles, chapters,
web sites, government publications).
- Rolvaag Library has 3 copies of the MLA Handbook for
Writers of Research Papers in the Reference Room. Call
# LB2369 .G53 2003.
- See the MLA's own website, which provides useful MLA Style
information in its online FAQ.
It also includes a section on citing
online resources.
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Page Information: |
Natalie Wall
Rolvaag Library 302
507-646-3597
walln @stolaf.edu |
Created by: Natalie Wall | 9-19-07
Created for: Professor Susan Bauer
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