short story laird
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PROFESSOR LAIRD
Short Story Research
THE NEXT FEW SLIDES WILL SHOW YOU HOW TO NAVIGATE THROUGH 4 KEY
LITERARY DATABASES:
• LITERATURE RESOURCE CENTER• ARTEMIS
• SALEM PRESS LITERATURE• HUMANITIES RESOURCE COMPLETE
Finding literary criticism and analyses…
You can search by name of work,
author or a combination.
Let’s pick “Person Search.”
You can select from the titles
that first come up or type in the
name of the work you are looking for if you don’t
see it.
Here we typed in “The Man Who Would be King.”
Looking for D.H. Lawrence
Select “L” or type in name
Scroll down to analyses and short stories.
IN ADDITION TO LIBRARY DATABASES, BOOKS CAN BE A GOOD SOURCE OF
LITERARY ANALYSES.
Finding literary criticism in books…
Tip: You can also add your author’s name in
your search
to refine your
results.
Use the “call number” to find the book on the
shelf.
YOU CAN USE ANY OF THE LITERARY DATABASES JUST COVERED TO FIND THE
NAME OF ANOTHER SHORT STORY BY YOUR AUTHOR.
ONCE YOU HAVE THE NAME OF A SHORT STORY YOU WANT TO FIND IN FULL TEXT ,
YOU CAN (1) RUN A BOOK SEARCH CONTAINING THE ENTIRE SHORT STORY
OR (2) USE ARTEMIS.
Finding the text of another short story by your
author…
Library of Congress call
number is used to locate print books on the
library shelves.
Click on book link to see description.
This is an example of using a book in the library to find another short story in full text by your author.
ARTEMIS
Finding the text of a short story using…
Scroll down to
document type.
There are 79 short
stories in full text.
You have the full text of these stories by Kipling and can
view all 79.
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