EDPA 1905 Freshman Seminar Student Activism: The Lost Art of Nonviolent

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Laurel Haycock, September 2007

Take a Look: Library Resources

• Books: MNCAT• Reference Sources: Sage eReference Encyclopedia• Articles: Education Full Text• Newspaper Articles: Proquest Newsstand

• Many others: Academic Search Premier:– http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/asp.cgi

– Google Scholar, blogs...

http://www.lib.umn.edu/

• Library web page is a starting point to link into books, articles, newspapers, other materials; many are e & some are paper

• Undergraduate Virtual Library is also an option:– http://www.lib.umn.edu/undergrad/

• Sometimes Google Scholar works well too!– http://scholar.google.com/

http://mncat.lib.umn.edu/

• MNCAT: Books– Keyword Searches…Words adjacent?

– Try: student activism, nonviolence, hunger strike… employee strikes … labor union strike …protest movements … war protests … environmental activism

– Check Availability & Location

http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/sageereference

• Sage eReference:– Full Text Search in all the Sage E Reference Encyclopedias

– Keyword search: social protest, student activism, nonviolence... environment activism… “sit in”… hunger strike…

http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/eft.cgi

• Education Full Text for Articles:– Keyword Searches– Direct Link to Full Text or Else Use Find it!

http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/pn.cgi

• Proquest Newsstand– Newspaper Articles and More

Consider…

• How will you decide if you are finding quality sources?

– Scholarly? …Academic?– Sensational? – Opinion?– Biased?– Substance?– Timely?– Accuracy?– Credibility?