Southern Cultural History

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Southern Cultural History

• Using Library Resources
• Dr. James Butler

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Advisory

• You will not use all of the strategies being
  discussed today every time you do a search.
• But knowing that these options are available and
  using them on occasions when your usual search
  strategies do not work is an indication of an
  informed and a good researcher.

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Points for Today

• Simple vs. Advanced Searching
• Subject (Thesaurus) vs. Keyword Searching
• Boolean Logic
• Truncation
• Scholarly/ Peer-Reviewed/ Referred Articles
• HTML full-text/ PDF/ or ILL

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Simple vs. Advanced Searching

• Several search terms/phrases at a time
• Allows a more detailed/accurate search
• More non-term based options for limiting your
  search

• One search term/phrase at a time
• Equates to searching very broad or very specific
• You use the simple search to find an author or
  title

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Subject vs. Keyword Searching

• Words you think of to use for searches, aka,
  natural language
• Some databases provide a thesaurus to look up the
  official term. They are not always called a
  thesaurus.

• Official words in a database or catalog, aka,
  controlled language
• If a subject term works in one database, chances
  are it will work in the others as well.

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Boolean Logic

• AND searching for two or more terms in the
  same record, Cult of Womanhood AND White
  Supremacy
• OR searching for one or the other term in a
  record, White Supremacy OR Cult of Womanhood
• NOT searching for one term, but not the
  other, Sojourner Truth NOT Cult of Womanhood

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Truncation

• A way to search for all the possible endings of a
  word at once!!
• Find the root of your word, then
• Shift 8
• Ex. word would find word, words, wordly,
  worded, wording, wordily, wordless, etc.

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Article Access

• HTML/ full-text someone has typed the article
  back into the computer
• PDF a scanned copy of the article
• Article-linker/360 search will take you either
  to the article in another Proctor Library
  database, or tells you we do not have it available

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Citing

• Chicago -- RREF Z253 .U69 2000 http//www.chicagom
  anualofstyle.org/home.html
• Will want to cite in order to avoid plagiarism,
  the most extreme result being dismissal from
  school
• Showing where you got ideas from/ providing
  acknowledgement

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Websites

• http//www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Int
  ernet/Evaluate.html
• Use this link off the Proctor Library Homepage is
  called Evaluating Websites to find out how to
  decide if a website is a good choice to use in
  your paper

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Where Well Search Today

• Librarys Catalog
• Worldcat
• JSTOR
• http//www.flagler.edu/library/
• Under Resources by Subject and then History
  you will find more information on other places to
  search