1. English 120/History 113:
Library Instruction Session
Jennifer Rosenstein, First Year
Outreach Services Librarian
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2. Assessment for today’s class
o Open the following
link:
o http://tinyurl.com/
clockandkeough
o Answer the first 3
questions
o Keep the survey
open throughout
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3. 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 2
different databases
Know how to find
primary sources on the
antebellum period

4. 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

5. 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

6. Finding Articles via Databases
• America: History and Life
– Literature on the history and culture of the United
States and Canada from prehistoric times to the
present
– When you e-mail an article be sure to select Citation
Format – MLA
– You can simultaneously search this and other Ebsco
databases
• 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.

7. Sample Searches
Jstor

8. Independent practice
• Find a relevant article in America: History and
Life
• Copy and paste the citation information into
the online survey and answer the follow up
questions

9. 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 the article is available in a different database, click
the “Article” link

10. InterLibrary Loan
• If we don’t have full text, click “ILLiad” to request
via Interlibrary Loan
• You need a library barcode to create an ILLiad
account
• Usually, you receive articles via InterLibrary Loan
within 24 hours

11. Primary Sources
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the
Federal Writers Project
– http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.
html
• American Memory: memory.loc.gov
• Library Databases
– Brooklyn Eagle
– Making of America
– NY Times Archive

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
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