AFRICAN AMERICAN LIT BY WOMEN AAS3960

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AFRICAN AMERICAN LIT BY WOMEN AAS-3960

• LIBRARY RESEARCH

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AGENDA

• BASIC LIBRARY INFORMATION
• INTRODUCTION TO PRINT RESOURCES
• INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
• HANDS-ON PRACTICE

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BASIC LIBRARY INFORMATION

• THE PANTHERCARD IS USED FOR
• Entering the building
• Printing from computers on campus and
• in the library
• Checking out books
• Off campus access to some databases

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BASIC LIBRARY INFORMATION

• GIL (the online catalog) books, periodicals,
  media owned by the library.
• List of Databases Periodical Databases for
  finding articles.
• Galileo Periodical Databases for finding
  articles

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BASIC LIBRARY INFORMATION

• SFX This symbol in most cases takes you to the
  full text of the article or to the library
  catalog for the call number.
• Use your panthercard i.d. to check out material
  from any University System library.

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BASIC LIBRARY INFORMATION

• Reference Help Library North 1st floor
• Check out books,etc library north and south
• Journals and magazines library north and south
  3rd and 4th floor

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BASIC LIBRARY INFORMATION

• Photocopiers library north 1st, 2nd, and 3rd
  floor
• Videos, DVDs, CDs, laptop computers library
  south media center 2nd floor.

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BASIC LIBRARY INFORMATION GETTING HELP

• THE REFERENCE DESK
• BY PHONE [phone]
• BY E-MAIL www.library.gsu.edu/askalibrarian
• ONLINE CHAT MON THURS. 8 A.M. 5 P.M. and
  8 a.m. 2 Fri. www.library.gsu.edu/askalibrarian/
  patronchat.htm

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BASIC LIBRARY INFORMATION GETTING HELP

• Specific help with research on your topic Make
  an appointment with Elaine Hughes 404-463-9940
  libmeh_at_gsu.edu

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INTRODUCTION TO PRINT RESOURCES

• Ref. PN771.C585 Contemporary Literary Criticism
  selected excerpts from critical writings on
  contemporary writers (writers who are now living
  or have died since January 1, 1960.) Full
  citations to the source of the excerpts are
  included.
• Ref. PN761.N5 Nineteenth Century Literature
  Criticism - follows the same model but is
  limited to writers who lived between 1800 and
  1900.
• Ref. PS129.D52 - Dictionary of Literary
  Biography - a series of separately edited volumes
  each a collection of biographical and critical
  essays on authors.
• Ref. PS153.N5A3444 African American Writers A
  Dictionary
• Ref. PS153.N5B556 Black Literature Criticism -
  a 4 volume set
• Ref. PS153.N5A344 African American Writers a
  2 volume set
• Ref.PN43.D48 Dictionary of Literary Themes and
  Motifs
• Ref.PN41.H355 A Handbook to Literature

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INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

• For books use GIL the online catalog try
  keyword searching examples literary AND
  criticism AND jacobs
• beloved AND literary AND criticism
• family AND incidents in the life of a slave
  girl

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INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

• Click on List of Databases for articles
• Contemporary Authors -It provides complete
  biographical and bibliographical references for
  more than 90,000 authors in the U.S. and around
  the world.
• American Humanities Index
• JSTOR
• Academic Search Premier
• MLA - They index literature, languages,
  linguistics, and folklore from over 4,000
  journals and serials published world wide, as
  well as books, essay collections, working papers,
  proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies.

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HANDS ON

• Log-on and find at least three articles on your
  topic