Search Strategies for the Search Strategies for the 2121stst Century: Century:Using the Web and the Using the Web and the Library together to find what Library together to find what you needyou need

Jenny Rushing, Reference Librarian & Human Search Engine

Jenny.rushing@belmont.edu460-5498

FYW Library Instruction-FYW Library Instruction-Accessing InformationAccessing InformationUsing the Web and the library

togetherCitations – how to find full textCUB CatGeneral Databases

FYS Library InstructionEvaluating InformationSubstantial SourcesScholarly Journal articles

Information Literacy TestInformation Literacy TestMust pass as part of Computer

ProficiencyBILS online tutorial will help you

prepare

When you do use the When you do use the Web….Web….Be efficient!

How many of you start with Google?

Looking up citationsLooking up citationsCallow, Philip. From Noon to

Starry Night: A Life of Walt Whitman. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1992. ISBN 0929587952

How do you find the full text How do you find the full text in the library?in the library?

Lawson, Andrew. “Spending for Vast Returns”: Sex, Class, and Commerce in the First Leaves of Grass.” American Literature, 75.2 (2003): 335-365. Project Muse. Web. 9 Feb. 2010.

Do we have the full text?Do we have the full text?Murphy, Gretchen. "Enslaved

Bodies: Figurative Slavery in the Temperance Fiction of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Walt Whitman." Genre 28 (Spring/Summer 1995), 95-118.

Looking up full text…what do Looking up full text…what do you search for in the you search for in the catalog?catalog?

Pollak, Vivian R. "'Bringing help for the sick': Whitman and Prophetic Biography." In Susan Belasco, Ed Folsom, and Kenneth M. Price, eds. Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Essays (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007), 244-265.

Start with the library!Start with the library!Library catalog, CUB Cat – books,

cds, dvds, music scores

Databases - articles

Searching CUB CatSearching CUB CatAuthor search

◦Whitman, WaltSubject search

◦Whitman, Walt◦Leaves of Grass

Example searchExample searchWomen’s roles in Whitman’s

work or nineteenth century literature

Search strategiesIdentify keywords, including

synonymsUse Boolean operators

Keywords and synonymsKeywords and synonyms

SynonymsSynonymswomenGendersexfeminismdomesticity

Nineteenth century

1800sVictorian

LiteratureWhitmanpoetry

Boolean searchingBoolean searching

Combine keywords with AND Combine keywords with AND and ORand ORBoolean searching

Stand if you are maleStand if you are male OR femaleStand if you are (male OR female)

AND are a music business majorStand if you are male AND a music

business major

Boolean search strategiesBoolean search strategies

women and Whitman and literature

Or Or Or

gender and Nineteenth century and poetry

Or Or Or

sex and victorian and

Search for articles in library Search for articles in library databasesdatabases

Use the subject guides to help you choose databases

How do I find the full text?How do I find the full text?

Citing Sources – Need Citing Sources – Need help?help?Belmont Writing Center

http://www.belmont.edu/english/writing/index.html

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

Style guides in the library

Information Literacy TestInformation Literacy TestMust pass as part of Computer

ProficiencyBILS online tutorial will help you

prepare

When you have When you have questions….questions….