Senior Seminar I: Knowledge, Practice, Power

Professor Tina CamptWednesday, September 18, 2013

Librarian Jenna Freedman

Personal Librarian

Yes No (sorry!)

• Help you refine your topic• Advise you on resources at the

Columbia libraries and around NYC• Guide your research strategy• Communicate with you by

appointment in person or by email or IM/chat

• Discuss value of resources• Support academic software like

Zotero and Courseworks and other software, too.

• Give you buttons and other SWAG

• Fetch you stuff from the library and hold it for you indefinitely

• Proofread your bibliography and fix all your citations

• Know what you and your professor have discussed

• Provide bibliotherapy at 2am on a Saturday.

• Accept cash bribes (vegan food offerings are negotiable)

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What to do with a Citation

Alfred, Mary V. "Welfare Reform and Black Women's Economic Development." Adult Education Quarterly 57.4 (2007): 293-311. Print.

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Keywords in CLIO

• Catalog vs. Find Articles• Adjacency!• Wildcards!• FACETS!• Texting catalog records!

(the exclamation points are all on purpose & warranted)

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databases - primarily articles, but also e-books, dissertations, statistics and other materials

Most of the same exciting (!) features we saw in CLIO. •Find Articles – searches multiple databases simultaneously•Gender Studies – specific focus•ProQuest – range of resources: historical newspapers, peer reviewed journals, alternative press

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etc.

• Primary sources• Web research

–Some tricks–Evaluating resources

• Zotero• Research Consultations