PowerPoint created for Prof. Keough's ENG 120/ HIS 113 class.

1. English 120/History 113U:
Library Instruction Session
Jennifer Rosenstein, First Year
Outreach Services Librarian
Photo by Sara Morishige Williams

2. Assessment for today’s class
o Open the following
link:
o http://tinyurl.com/
eng120his113
o Answer the first 3
questions
o Keep the survey
open throughout
today’s session Photo by Mark Menzies

3. The library… not just books
• http://youtu.be/W3ZHPJT2Kp4

4. Our goals for today:
Review using the Pace
Catalog to find books
Request books from
another Pace campus
Use ConnectNY
Be able to find articles
from 3 different
databases
Learn how to search
Google more effectively
Know where to go for
information on MLA
citation style
Photo by Erin Vermeulen

5. Tips for using Search Plus (Encore) to
search Use the catalog to narrow your
•
the tags on the right
search
• If you need books that are immediately
available to you, click on “Birnbaum
Stacks” on the left
– Note E-book options as well
• Look at the subject headings for a book to
find more books on your topic
• While you’re browsing, you can click on the
“Add to List” link to keep track of items you
were interested in
– Use the “My List” button at the top right to
access your list. You can e-mail the list to
yourself.
• Use the Connect NY button to find
resources from other universities
• Note: Encore will also give you results from
a few databases, but it’s hard to narrow
them down using this interface

6. Independent practice
• Use Search Plus to search the catalog for
books on your topic
• Once you find a book enter the title, location
and call number in the online survey

7. Finding Articles via Databases
• Academic Search Premier
– When you e-mail an article be sure to select Citation
Format – MLA
• America: History and Life
– Literature on the history and culture of the United States
and Canada from prehistoric times to the present
You can search both of these databases at the same
time using the Choose Databases link
• Jstor
– All content is at least 3 years old
– Limit to Article and English
Jstor will not e-mail you the full text of the article. To save
the article click View PDF and then save the PDF to your
computer or flash drive.

8. Generating Search Terms
Terms relating to Terms relating to Terms relating to
Justification Bombing Location / Context
Ethic* Atom* bomb Hiroshima
Necess* Nuclear weapon* Nagasaki
Japan
Moral* Little Boy
Justif* Fat Man World War II
Casualt*

9. Sample Searches
Jstor

10. Independent practice
• Find a relevant article in Academic Search
Premier and/or America: History and Life
• Copy and paste the citation information into
the online survey and answer the follow up
questions

11. Finding Full Text Articles
• If you don’t see a link to
HTML or PDF full text in
a database search, click
the icon to
search all the library’s
print and electronic
subscriptions to see if
we own the full text
• If we don’t have full text,
click “ILLiad” to request via
Interlibrary Loan
• You need a library barcode to
create an ILLiad account
Photo by Chris Gladis

12. Using Google more effectively
• Configuring Google
Scholar to show full-text
available at Pace
– Watch the video:
http://tinyurl.com/config
scholar
– Use the site: limiter
eg. site: edu
• Filter by reading level
and then choose
Photo by scarletgreen Advanced

13. MLA Citation Style
To access resources on MLA
citation style, click on How do
I?
-Cite resources?
-The Bedford Handbook
- This is Diana Hacker’s
online guide to
citations and
formatting

14. To get more help:
• The library home page: pace.edu/library
• Use the Ask-a-Librarian link
• Under “Library Services,” use the Video tutorials, How
do I?, and Research Guides links
• E-mail Jennifer! jrosenstein@pace.edu
• Stop by or call the reference desk (the desk
under the big Information sign in the middle
of the library)
• (212) 346-1331