1. Library Research for
First Year English:
Women and Culture
Spring 2014
Professor Yevgeniya Traps
Librarian Jenna Freedman
2. library.barnard.edu
portal to all knowledge.
resources specifically for YOU
http://
library.barnard.edu/find-books/guides/ENGL/ENGLX1201
&
http://
library.barnard.edu/find-books/guides/ENGL/ENGLX1201
3. we can help you
library.barnard.edu/contact
library.barnard.edu/personal-librarians
• IM BarnardReference: AOL, Google,
Yahoo
• Text 386.227.6273 (386.BARNARD)
6. Literary, critical,
or close reading
Image from ManageWP blog post by Tom Ewer
•Include name of text or
author in search
•Add terms to explore an
aspect of the text that
interests you
•E.g., characters, themes,
places, etc.
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8. Historical
•Include words or phrases
important to historical
context
– date-specific (18th or
nineteenth century)
– Era-specific (joseon)
– Geographical (korea)
•Do not include text title or
author
Image from Wikimedia Commons
Joseon Chest
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10. Theoretical
•Include words or phrases
related to your theorist or lens
– Select discipline specific
databases (e.g., gender
studies, philosophy,
psychology, etc.)
– Use theorist's name or
philosophy in search term in
interdisciplinary database
– Consider reference sources
•You may or may not include
text title or author
Image from South End Press.
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13. CLIO
•books, e-books, serials, media materials, microforms, etc.
•CLIO
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Truncation &
Send to phone
•Literary: add the word < criticism > to your author/title, e.g., <
"paradise lost" criticism >
•Historical: indicate dates or era and add a secondary interest to
narrow the field <korea* AND (18th OR eighteenth OR 19th OR
nineteenth) >
•Theoretical: < feminis* theor* > or < feminis* theor* haywood >
14. read
lab or stacks time
Try searches in some of the databases we reviewed
AND/OR
Use CLIO to find the call number for a book that interests you
and find it in the stacks
•A-M 1st floor
•N-Z 2nd floor
Subscription databases are NOT the same as websites. Some non-sub databases, too, as those provided by libraries and other academic institutions.
They know what&apos;s in each item (that CLIO only knows we have). Connected with e-link.
Listings by genre/format
A to Z, vs. subject lists
Pair searches: choose a text and a type of research if it seems like there&apos;s time
Ten minutes for breakouts/twenty for show and tell