dr. william mccarthy history librarian: kristin andrews [email protected]
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HST 290: Practice of History –Hate Speech
Dr. William McCarthyHistory Librarian: Kristin Andrews
Resource TypesPrimarySecondaryArticles
ScholarlyPopular
BooksTheses & DissertationsWebsites
Search tipsAnd, Or, Not
And narrowsOr adds synonyms/relatedNot excludes (use carefully)
Topic: Hate Speech in North Carolina
Hate speech AND North CarolinaSpeech OR expression OR statements
More Search TipsTruncate for word variations
Activis* = activist, activism
Words anywhere or exact phrase? Be all you can be vs. “Be all you can be”
Advanced LimitersHistorical eraSubject area (in JSTOR)
Working from a known citation• Heider, Carmen. “Farm Women, Solidarity
and the Suffrage Messenger: Nebraska Suffrage Activism on the Plains, 1915-1917." Great Plains Quarterly 32, no. 2 (Spring 2012): 113-130.
Look in the UNCW catalog for book OR journal title (in this case “Great Plains Quarterly”).
If we have the journal, check available dates for print & online formats
If we don’t have access, request via Interlibrary Loan
Finding Books
Library Catalog WorldCat Local
9,000 libraries / ~1.2 billion items
Google Books (public domain books are available in full text.)
Keyword vs. Subject in actionDo a keyword search in the
UNCW library catalog or the search box on the library home page.
When you find a title that is useful for your topic, look at the subject headings listed in the record.
Click on useful subject headings to lead you to other more books on that topic.
Searching Personal NamesKeyword searches
Either order Try name variations, e.g., initials
Author/Subject Last name first, e.g. Eaton, Hubert
Looking at the catalog record
Item InfoLocation (click for map)Call # (location on shelf)AvailabilityOnline AccessCover, summary, reviews
LC Call Numbers
LC Call Numbers
Interlibrary LoanFirst time: go to the ILL page and fill out
the form under “First Time Users”Username – UNCW domain namePassword – UNCW password
When you click “Request from Interlibrary Loan” in WorldCat Local or an article database, you can log in and it will fill out the request for you.
Allow a few days for articles & a week or so for book requests. You’ll get an email when it arrives.
Primary SourcesDiaries, journals, other writings of
“players”Eyewitness/observer accountsMemoirs, autobiographies (written later)Government & other official documents
Laws, treaties, reports, orders, transcripts of proceedings, addresses, congressional hearings, census records, etc.
Cartoons and Advertisements (of the time)
Photographs and imagesMovies!Interviews
Randall Catalog & WorldCatSubject Subheadings
CorrespondenceDiariesInterviewsPersonal
narrativesSourcesCatalogsManuscriptsPictorial Works
PortraitsSpeechesNotebooks/
Sketch-booksArchivesCartoonsDescriptionsDescription and
travel
Periodicals and NewspapersNew York Times Archive
Times Digital Archive
Readers’ Guide Retrospective
Newspapers on microfilm, e.g. Wilmington Morning Star
Digital Collections
Many out there. Some examples:
UNC – Documenting the American South
American Memory (from Library of Congress)
DPLA (Digital Public Library of America)
Official Documents - Legal
Lexis Nexis Academic
Hein Online
Bibliographies—Follow the trailBook-length (Reference Collection)Secondary sources (books and journal
articles)Types
Classified (easiest to find primary sources)
AlphabeticalFootnotes/Endnotes
What can you find?
Government & Legal DocumentsFdsys – Federal Digital System
America’s Authentic Government InformationFedStats
Statistics from more than 100 agencies and sub-agencies of federal and states government
HeinOnlineCongressional documents, court cases, etc.
Congress.govCongressional Documents
Lexis Nexis AcademicLegal Search
Questions?What will you do when you have questions?
Ask for help –it’s what we do!
Kristin [email protected]
General Library Helphttp://library.uncw.edu