Annette Mller Madsen

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Annette Møller Madsen Subject librarian English
language and literature
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I Library orientation and library services BIBSYS
Key skills interpret a reading list search
BIBSYS for its references find the documents if
in your library order them if not in your
library
II Subject oriented searching Printed reference
collection Database searching Key
skills find, select, present relevant
information for your assignments for your
own ideas, critical thinking, etc. for
professional updating for flexibility on the
job market
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A reference to a book
Studying literature the essential companion /
edited by Paul Goring, Jeremy hawthorn, Domhnall
Mitchell. London Arnold, 2001
Title Author/editor Place of
publication Publisher Year
study? hawth? gor?
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Location and collection

• Dewey numbers answer 2 question
• Where is the book?
• What is the book about?
• Look at the books on the same shelf. Those books
• may be on the same topic or on related topics

Studying literature
Goring Hawthorn Mitchell
807 Gor
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A reference to an article in a book
Clue IN a title the page numbers indicate a
part of a book
A bibliographic record in a different format
TI What is the history of books AU
Darnton,-Robert PB 13-27 IN Carpenter,-Kenneth
(ed.). Books on society in history papers.
Amsterdam Rodopi, 1998.
Title (article) Author (article)
Author/editor (book) Title (book)
carpent? book? societ?
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McKenzie, D. F. "Ch. 1 The Book as an
Expressive Form. In Bibliography and the
Sociology of Texts. London The British Library,
1986. 1-21. Search BIBSYS for the book
biblio? text? sociol?
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Wrong year! (1999/1986) Could this cause trouble?
Books from the reference collections cannot be
taken out of the library. So, dont make
reservations.
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No articles in BIBSYS!Search for the book
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A reference to an article in a journal
TI Women poets and anonymity in the Romantic
eraAU Feldman PRSO NEW LITERARY HISTORY 33
(2) 279-289 SPR PY 2002 IS 0028-6087
Title (article), Author (article), Title
(journal), Volume, Issue, pages, Year, ISSN
Clue Volume issue numbers 2 titles indicate
a journal article
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A journal the print version
volume 33, issue 1- 4 Foto Zsuzsanna Kiss
NEW LITERARY HISTORY 33 (2) 279-289 SPR
2002 vol. no. date
pages 33Issue No. 1 (Winter 2002)
1-192 33Issue No. 2 (Spring 2002) 193-
401 33Issue No. 3 (Summer 2002) 402-606 33Issue
No. 4 (Autumn 2002) 607-808
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No articles in BIBSYS!Search for the journal
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Search BIBSYS for the journal title
New literary history?
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Journals in BIBSYS electronic or printed version
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Make sure that UHS has the volume and issue you
need
NEW LITERARY HISTORY 33 (2) 2002 is not in UHS
(1969-1994) Check the printed version!
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The printed versionCheck the location and dates
of the librarys holdingsPrinted back issues
(pre 1980) are often in the stacks
3 terminated subscriptions in the stacks. Ask
the staff.
UHS holdings from 2(1970-) UHS is still
subscribing You go and get them
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Where to start
Analyse the title of your assignment dictionaries
of terminologi, critical concepts
You need a text where do Boswell and Walpole
write about? Concordance, internet Critical
edition.
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Gales Literary Indexan electronic master index
to a large number of reference works
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Charles Dickens

• Gales Literary Index
• Criticism series
• Dictionary of Literary Biography
• BIBSYS
• Texts
• Person as subject
• Title as subject
• Companions, guides, etc.
• MLA International Bibliography
• ABELL Annual Bibliography of English Language and
  Literature

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Books on or by Hardy
One name only Dont forget truncation ?
By Hardy
hardy, thomas?
On Hardy
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Latest books in BIBSYS on Jude the Obscure
Select omtalt tittel
Jude the obscure?
Select nyeste først
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A recent book on Chaucer

• Does UHS own a copy?
• If yes is it in the library now or on loan?
• Find some other recent books on Chaucer in UHS
• Find a companion or guide to Chaucer in BIBSYS
• Where can you find a book review?
• Get the review full text on the screen
• Who is the author of the review. Has he written
  anything on that period?

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Who wrote Shakespeares works?

• Find book reviews
• Database Atekst.
• Tore Rem, Keith Brown, Olav Lausund
• have all written about this book in
• Aftenposten.
• Datatabases LION (ABELL), or ISI
• Nelson, Alan H.. review of James, Brenda
• Rubinstein, William D. "Truth will out unmasking
• the real Shakespeare." Times Literary
  Supplement,
• 25 Nov. 2005, 28
• Search BIBSYS for TLS (online).
• Search TLS for the book, and follow links to the
  article.

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Quick tip from the journal Choice
Best Bet Search Syntax Place a plus sign () in
front of all words you wish to retrievehibernat
ion bearsPlace a phrase within double quotes
"freedom of the press"Put it all
together"El Niño" "North America"
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From Larry Shues play The Nerd.Google to find
out what the coloured bits are about.

• WILLUM Sorry I'm late. They were so backed-up
  at the clinic, I
• thought they'd never get to me.(holds up his
  hand.)
• But they did, finally.AXEL Kemp is with us
  again - I suspect to give us his
• St.Crispin's Day speech
• WILLUM Oh. Hi, Kemp. . . .
• KEMP'S VOICE "If not to heaven, then hand in
  hand" . . .
• AXEL What were you singing there, minute ago?
  
• RICK "Venus in Blue Jeans"
• AXEL Ah. . . . RICK That's my favorite
  song. Next to Nancy". AXEL What's "Nancy"?
  How does that go? RICK It's a comic strip.

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Checking quotations
"St.Crispin's Day speech"
St Crispin's Day - Henry V, William Shakespeare
St Crispin's day Henry V, ... Saint Crispin's Day
Speech from Henry V by William
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Checking quotations
"If not to heaven then hand in hand"
Richard III by William Shakespeare Act 5. Scene
III If not to heaven, then hand in hand to
hell. His oration to his Army
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Songs and texts
Venus in blue jeans"
Venus In Blue Jeans She's Venus in blue jeans
Mona Lisa with a ponytail She's walkin talkin
work of art ... My Venus in blue jeans Is
everything I hoped she'd be ...
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or comic strip nancy
cartoon nancy
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Other peoples ideas Check your sources Avoid
plagiarism
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Cowper, William, 1731-1800  THE TASK. from The
Works (1835-1837) 206      England, with all
thy faults, I love thee still , 207      My
country! and while yet a nook is left 208     
Where English minds and manners may be
found, 209      Shall be constrain'd to love
thee. T
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Nedergaard, Paul Personalhistoriske,
sognehistoriske og statistiske bidrag til en
dansk præste og sognehistorie (kirkelig
geografi) 1849-1949 / samlet og udgivet af
Paul Nedergaard. - København Lohse, 1951- .
- b.
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