HST 290: Practice of History – Depictions of Miscegenation in Documentaries, Television Shows and Hollywood Films Dr. Glen Harris Kristin Andrews [email protected]
Your Current Research Skills? How would you rate your current
research skills? Strong Satisfactory Needs improvement Poor What
causes you the most anxiety/confusion/frustration? What are your
favorite sources for historical research?
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Our plan for the library sessions Review Research Guide for
this course.Research Guide Explore various finding aids. Learn to
identify primary sources. Become familiar with special services.
Interlibrary Loan Ask a librarian
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Where to get help Learning Commons Help Desk In person
Telephone Email Chat Text By Appointment Contact me directly:
[email protected]@uncw.edu
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Resource Types Primary vs. Secondary (more next time) Articles
Scholarly Popular Books Theses & Dissertations Websites
Search tips And, Or, Not And narrows Or adds synonyms/related
Not excludes (use carefully) Example: Miscegenation in Film
Miscegenation or ? Film or ?
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More Search Tips Truncate for word variations Film* = film or
films or filming or filmmaking Words anywhere or phrase? Black Girl
or Black Girl Field-specific searches Jungle Fever in title
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Database Exploration Library Homepage Article Search America:
History & Life JSTOR Film Literature Index Google Scholar
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Working from a known citation Gosselin, Adrienne Johnson.
"Racial Etiquette and the (White) Plot of Passing: (Re)Inscribing
'Place' in John Stahl's Imitation of Life." Canadian Review Of
American Studies 28, no. 3 (1998): 47. Does the library have it?
What format or location? Is there online access?
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Try it yourself!
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Finding Books Library Catalog local & UNCP/FSU WorldCat
9,000 libraries / ~1.2 billion items Google Books ( ~12 million /
~7 million full-text) Google Books Project Gutenberg (~40,000
books) Project Gutenberg Some databases lead to books Cited
directly Book reviews
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Keyword vs. Subject Searching Keyword Finds words anywhere in
record. Look at records to see subject headings. Search lots of
terms, word variations Subject Headings Controlled vocabulary May
not be natural language but may find more Hierarchical arrangement
helps narrow topic Searches only the subject field
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Keyword vs. Subject in action What is a useful Subject Heading
for Miscegenation and Hollywood? Start with a keyword search, then
look for subjects in the records retrieved. Use subject headings to
lead you to other titles Same terms used in WorldCat
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Searching Personal Names Keyword searches Either order Try name
variations, e.g., initials Author/Subject Last name first, e.g.
Lee, Spike
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Looking at the catalog record Item Info Location Call number
Availability Online Access Cover, summary, reviews Subjects for
related items Government Documents: SuDoc arranges by agency
Expanding search to UNCCLC Request/Add to Bag/Add to My Lists
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Finding Books LC Call Nos. Alpha-numeric Single letters before
double First number is a whole number Everything after the decimal
point is a decimal value.
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LC Call Numbers
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WorldCat May find items at Randall that catalog search didnt
(records enhanced later) Finds items for ILL requests Rare items
not lent Rare items may be reprinted & available Websites
included often w/ free access!
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Try it yourself!
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Interlibrary Loan Create an account/create a new account
Username UNCW domain name Password UNCW password
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Secondary - Primary Next Session: Find a relevant secondary
source (book or article) with a bibliography. Review the
bibliography to find a primary source. Copy the page with the
primary source citation. Highlight citation for primary source.
Complete exercise form; attach copy; bring to class.
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Next Class Primary Sources What they are How to find them
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What will you do when you have questions?
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Kristin Andrews [email protected] General Library Help
http://library.uncw.edu
Primary Sources Diaries, journals, other writings of players
Eyewitness/Observer accounts Memoirs, autobiographies (written
later) Official documents Laws, treaties, reports, orders,
transcripts of proceedings, addresses, etc. Advertisements (of the
time) Images Movies!
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Primary or Secondary? Scholarly article published in 2005 on
racial taboos in Guess Whos Coming to Dinner Congressional Record
explanation of HR 6097, a 1933 bill for supervision of motion
pictures. An encyclopedia of African Americans in motion pictures
An essay by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. entitled Jungle fever : guess
who's not coming to dinner? published in a 1991 book. Collection of
transcripts of interviews with movie directors New York Times
review of Guess Whos Coming to Dinner written in 1967. The movie
Jungle Fever
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Randall Catalog & WorldCat Search general subject headings
Motion picture producers and director -- interviews Search specific
headings or persons Stanley Kramer as author (Kramer, Stanley) Look
for items not tagged as primary source Primary documents may be
included in secondary sources Eyewitness authors may not be tagged
as sources
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Randall Catalog & WorldCat Standard Subheadings
Correspondence Diaries Interviews Personal narratives* Sources See
guide for others
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Periodicals and Newspapers New York Times Archive Readers Guide
Retrospective Humanities and Social Sciences Index
Retrospective
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Official Documents Lexis Nexis Academic Legal Lexis-Nexis
Congressional HeinOnline
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Digital Collections See the Research Guide for more!
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BibliographiesFollow the trail Book-length (Reference
Collection) Secondary sources (books and journal articles) Types
Classified (easiest to find primary sources) Alphabetical
Footnotes/Endnotes
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What will you do when you have questions?
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Kristin Andrews [email protected] General Library Help
http://library.uncw.edu