research minutes: using hollis classic
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RESEARCH MINUTES:USING HOLLIS CLASSIC
Using HOLLIS Classic for literary research
FINDING LITERARY CRITICISM
Keyword searching and Subject Searching.
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT A LITERARY WORK
First, about Keyword searches …
The first few matches of 17 total…
Keywords appear in all fields of a record.
Other search strategies
Keywords in subject headings
OR… TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THEMES, CONCEPTS, CONTEXT
Use a “?” to “truncate”… wom?n retrieves: woman and women.
Browse more records using clickable subjects.
Illustration from Liberty Enlightening the World, by the Illustrative Press Bureau (New York, N.Y.), 1886.
You may also begin by Subject Searching…
SUBJECT SEARCHING:
which displays an “ordered” view of results *browsable* this way only in HOLLIS Classic..
WIDENER LIBRARY: TWO LOCATIONS FOR
ITEMS
Widener’s Stacks & The Harvard Depository (HD)
Click on Availability to see if on shelf (stacks)…
or to request from HD (the Harvard Depository).
WIDENER LIBRARY: TWO CALL NUMBER
SYSTEMS
WID-LC and “Old Widener”
http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/widener/finding_materials/stacks_docs/wid_loc_chart.pdf
http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/widener/finding_materials/stacks_docs/wid_loc_chart.pdf
TEST DRIVE AND DECIDE:
HOLLIS OR HOLLIS CLASSIC
See the “Using HOLLIS” pathfinder
Questions? Mary Beth Clack, mclack@fas.harvard.edu
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