GENERAL SOURCES

Encyclopedia Britannica [R.R. AE5 .E56 2006]
Britannica Online

SUBJECT SPECIFIC DICTIONARIES & ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism [R.R. PN761 .N5]
Use the Contemporary Authors Cumulative Index in the reference area to author's names.

Dictionary of American History [R.R. E174 .D52]

Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century [R.R. E169.1 .E626 2001]

Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History [R.R. E169.1 .E624 2001]

Encyclopedia of American Studies [R.R. E169.1 .E625 2001]

American Eras [R.R. E169.1 .A471979 1997]

Encyclopedia of American Social Movements [R.R. HN57 .E5924 2004]

UTOPIANISM

Encyclopedia of Utopian Literature [R.R. PN56 .U8 S66 1995]

Historical Dictionary of Utopianism [R.R. HX806 .M626 2004]

The ABC-CLIO World History Companion to Utopian Movements [R.R. HX626 .H65 1998]

Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience [R.R. BL2525 .E53 1988]

Encyclopedia of American Religious History [R.R. BL2525 .Q44 2001]

Historical Dictionary of the Shakers [R.R. BX9766 .D84 2000]

Encyclopedia of Mormonism [R.R. BX8605.5 .E62 1992]

NATIVE AMERICAN RESOURCES

American Indians [R.R. E76.2 .A45 1995]

Handbook of Native American Indians [R.R. E76.2 .H36]
This is a U.S. government publication but housed in the reference room. (Smithsonian)

A Native American Encyclopedia [R.R. E76.2 .P75 2000]

American Indian Tribes [R.R. E77 .A53 2000]

Atlas of the North American Indian [R.R. E77 .W195]

The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas [R.R. E77 .N62 1996]

The Encyclopedia of Native American Religions [R.R. E98 .R3 H73 1992]

For books, government documents, videos and DVD's, consult:

BRIDGE catalogs resources available at St. Olaf and Carleton. Use BRIDGE to search for books and to see if we have particular journals in print, but not for chapters within books for for articles within periodicals.

You may search BRIDGE by Title, Keyword or Subject. Try combining relevant terms or concepts in Keyword search to focus your search (e.g. utopia* and communit*). Use an asterisk (*) to truncate words (e.g. utopia* will retrieve utopia, utopias, utopian, etc.). Once you find a useful title, use the linked Library of Congress Subject Headings at the bottom of the record to find more items on the same topic:

Here are some useful Subject Headings to get you started:

You may request materials housed at Carleton directly from BRIDGE by clicking

Browsing the book collection is also sometimes a useful research strategy. Here are some call number areas you may want to look at on the shelves:

For a little spice in your paper, you may want to add:

PRIMARY DOCUMENTS: Records, First-Hand Accounts and Artifacts

BRIDGE also offers subject access to primary materials in the four libraries. They may be collected in sets, published as separate items after their significance is determined over time, or they might just be materials that have been in the library collection since they were first published. Indicators of primary materials might include:

LCSH. Use the following subheadings:
Sources, correspondence, personal narratives, reminiscences, interviews, case studies

Keywords. Try adding these to your topical key word search:
document*, reading*, memoir*, autobiograph*, diary or diaries, letter*, speech*, account*

Date:
Subject search by relevant topic and limit by publication date (unfortunately, does not bring up old items published recently)

Examples from BRIDGE:

Sourcebooks/Collected Sets
Mother's first-born daughters: early Shaker writings on women and religion
Indian oratory: famous speeches by noted Indian chieftains

Personal Accounts
Desire and duty at Oneida: Tirzah Miller's intimate memoir
I saw the ravages of an Indian war: a diary

Gems of the Times (perhaps reproduced)
Picturing Utopia: Bertha Shambaugh & the Amana photographers
Beauty, honor and tradition: the legacy of Plains Indian shirts

For scholarly journal articles, consult:

JOURNAL INDEXES AND DATABASES

Academic Search Premier - General database covering many disciplines.
MLA International Bibliography - major index to journals in literature
America: History and Life - Most important index for locating historical materials.
ATLA Religion Database - index to religion journals, article collections, book reviews, etc.
Sociological Abstracts - index to 2600 sociology journals
Women Studies International - covers the core disciplines in women's studies

Jstor - An 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.

The button will lead you to full-text electronic versions of the articles you find, as well as print if held by St. Olaf or Carleton. If it is not available through BRIDGE, you can click on the ILLiad button and order through inter-library loan.

NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE ARTICLES

New York Times, 1851-2003
American Periodical Series online, 1740-1900
American Memory from the Library of Congress

WEBSITES

There are a variety of ways to search the web; Google and Google Scholar being two you might use. However, the best initial entry may be through catalogs of web sites:

Librarian's Catalogs of Web sites:

Infomine: web sites collected by academic librarians - full descriptions and subject headings.
Librarian's Index to the Internet - aimed more at public libraries but still useful.
Scout Report - reviews of web sites; searchable by keyword and subject heading

There is a lot of good information on the Internet but there is also a lot of garbage. Your task is to carefully evaluate the information you find and determine whether it is worthy of inclusion in a scholarly endeavor. The following table will help you ask the right questions as you evaluate sites:

Based on "Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask." UC Berkeley - Teaching Library Internet Workshops. 7 Jan 2005. 14 Feb 2005 and "Evaluating Web Sites." The Ohio State University Libraries. 14 Feb 2005.

Individual web sites (examples only):

New York Public Library's Utopian exhibit

American Indian History and Culture at the Smithsonian

CITATION

     MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Sixth Edition [R.R. LB2369 .G53 2003]

Online examples of MLA style can be found here - Duke University Libraries site .

Librarians can help- Please come see us at the reference desk if you have questions!