HY 410 People, Ideas and Objects in Circulation

Library Research Guide

Library instruction provided for Professor Jane Murphy’s Block 3, 2009 class.

How to Do A Literature Review

A Colorado College student describes the literature review process.

Writing an Annotated Bibliography

How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography from Cornell University Libraries.

Finding Book Reviews

Search for book reviews in the Book Review Databases as well as searching your discipline’s databases for extensive reviews of recent scholarly books.

Locating Book Reviews in Scholarly History Journals from Rutgers University.

Using Bibliographies and Footnotes to Find Sources

Using Bibliographies from University of Tennessee

How to Search for Archives

What are Archival Records from McMaster University.

What is a Finding Aid? from Northwestern University Libraries.

Consult Directories

Subject collections : a guide to special book collections and subject emphases as reported by university, college, public, and special libraries and museums in the United States and Canada.
3rd Floor-Oversize Z731.A78 1993 v. 1-2

Directory of archives and manuscript repositories in the United States
Spec Coll Office CD3020 .D49 1988

Browse Online Lists

Archives and Manuscript Collections

National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections

Finding Primary Sources from Archives and Libraries from Princeton University.

Repositories of Primary Resources from University of Idaho.

Ready, ‘Net, Go! Resources for Archives from Tulane University.

Search WorldCat

Limit to Type (archival materials) to retrieve catalog records for manuscript and archival collections. Single item manuscripts are generally coded in the Books format.

Search Google

Try using terms like archive, special collection, finding aid, papers, etc. See List of primary source terms.

Utilize the Center for Research Libraries

Browse their collections or search in Prospector.

Identify Licensed Online Archives

Adam Matthew Digital

Finding Books

• Search the Tiger Catalog for books available in Tutt Library.

Search TIGER for Keyword Title Author Subject Journal Title Go

Try searching “chinese-american* and world war*”.

• Search Prospector for books available from academic and public libraries in Colorado. Materials can come in as few as 3 days.

• Search Google Books to identify books by words in the text.

Finding Journal Articles

Google Scholar

JSTOR

Coverage: late 1800's - most recent 5 years

Archival access to many scholarly periodicals. Jstor does not cover the most recent three years of most journals.

Historical Abstracts

Coverage: 1967 - current

Covers world history.

Finding Journal Articles in Subject Specific Databases

Try searching a subject specific database from Film Studies Databases for more articles from individual disciplines.

For example, try searching Humanities International Complete listed under Film Studies Databases, for the topic “cold war and histor”.

Finding Full Text Versions of Articles

When searching article indexing databases, sometimes the full text of the article you need is not provided to you by the database. Or you have identified a citation in a bibliography or footnote and need to find the full text. There are two ways of finding the full text of any article that you need.

1. Check Find Journals to see if Tutt Library subscribes to an electronic version of your journal or magazine or if we own databases which may have your article in full text. Find Journals a.k.a Tutt Link a.k.a Full Text Online is available next to the citations in most of our databases and in GoogleScholar.

1. Request an ILLiad/Interlibrary Loan of your article directly from your database (use button or hotlink) or log into ILLiad and fill out an Interlibrary Loan Request Form. (Articles can come in as few as 24-48 hours.) You must be registered with ILLiad for either method to work – see First Time User Registration for Interlibrary Loan.

Citing Your Sources

How to Cite Sources?

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA handbook for writers of research papers.
PE1478 .M57 2003 (1st Floor North-Ref Desk, 1st Floor North-Reference, Permanent Reserves – Circ, Tutt North Basement)

The Chicago manual of style.
PE1478 .U69 2003 (1st Floor North-Ref Desk, 1st Floor North-Reference, Permanent Reserves – Circ, Tutt North Basement)

Managing Your Bibliography

RefWorks training every Wed. 1 p.m. @Tutt Library.

Additional Assistance

Contact Reference Desk, 9 a.m. – 10 p.m., x6662, IM=tuttlibrarian

Contact Krystyna Mrozek, Interdisciplinary Programs Librarian, x6669, Tutt Library 201, kmrozek@coloradocollege.edu, IM=tuttkrystyna

Last revised, 11-04-09, km.