Locating Library Resources

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Locating Library Resources
Presentation for The Canadian North Past
Present class
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Map
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10 research tips

• Sub catalogues
• Nesting and Truncation
• Limits
• Advanced keyword
• Locations shelving map
• VPN
• FIND IT _at_ McGill
• P drive (1 GB)
• EndNote
• Information Services/Liaison Librarians

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Searching the Library catalogue

• Contents what am I searching?
• Answer Record descriptions
• Browse
• Known item search.begins with
• Keyword
• Less known..word(s)

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Library web site

• Subject guides
• Anthropology
• Canadian History
• Communications Media Studies
• Cultural Studies
• Quebec Studies
• Course guides - CANS 407

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Databases

• Shopping malls or boutiques (Canadian
  coverage)
• Understand the database coverage what am I
  searching?
• Citations and abstracts, sometimes full-text of
  the article
• Formulating your search question into keywords
• Try out the search in several databases
• Adjust your keywords to suit the database, based
  on finding a good record!

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• Article Indexes databases

Hubert Wenger Eskimo Database University of
Alaska Fairbanks Searchable database of 200
books and journal articles written by explorers,
missionaries, ethnographers, and others who were
among the first Euroamericans to travel among and
write about Inuit/Eskimo peoples. It includes
out-of-print and hard to find material, basic
works descriptive of each Inuit/Eskimo and Aleut
group, drawings, photographs, and maps.   (Trent
University )  
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Article Indexes databases
Arctic and Antarctic Regions (AAR) Biblioline
1million records An anthology of 12
files AAR is the world's largest collection of
international polar databases. Coverage is
multidisciplinary. A wide variety of sources are
indexed including scientific periodicals,
monographs, proceedings of conferences and
symposia, government reports, theses,
dissertations, and books.
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Article Indexes databases
Arctic Science and Technology Information System
(ASTIS) Arctic Institute of North America The
Arctic Science and Technology Information System
(ASTIS) database contains over 64,000 records
describing publications and research projects
about northern Canada.
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Article Indexes databases
Periodical Article Bibliography (PAB) Centre for
Newfoundland Studies, Memorial University
Libraries The objective of the PAB is to make a
major scholarly contribution in the form of a
vast retrospective bibliography to the journal
and periodical literature of Newfoundland and
Labrador, and particularly to record it for the
first time.
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Databases

• Canadian coverage
• CPI.Q
• CBCA
• REPERE
• Shopping malls
• Academic Search Premier
• Theses Dissertations
• Research Databases Other
• Anthropological Literature

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Nunavut

• Current

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Nunavik

• Ceased

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Labrador

• Oldest
• Current

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Caninuit
http//www.libris.ca/inuit/go.exe
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Rare Books Special Collections

• Access to the collections
• http//www.mcgill.ca/rarebooks/collections/descrip
  tion/
• Special Collections
• http//www.mcgill.ca/rarebooks/collections/special
  /
• Lande Canadiana Collection
• Map Collection
• Print Collection
• Tundra Books
• Childrens Collection

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Primary collections

• McGill University Library
• Library and Archives Canada (LAC)
• University of Alberta Libraries
• University of Calgary Library
• Arctic Institute of North America (AINA)
• Trent University
• University of Saskatchewan