English 120/History 113:Library Instruction Session

Jennifer Rosenstein, First Year Outreach Services Librarian

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Assessment for today’s class o Open the following

link: o http://tinyurl.com/clockandkeough

o Answer the first 3 questions

o Keep the survey open throughout today’s session

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Our goals for today:Review using the

Pace Catalog to find books

Request books from another Pace campus

Use ConnectNYBe able to find

articles from 2 different databases

Know how to find primary sources on the antebellum period

Tips for using Search Plus (Encore) to search the catalog

• Use the tags on the right to narrow your search

• If you need books that are immediately available to you, click on “Birnbaum Stacks” on the left– Note E-book options as well

• Look at the subject headings for a book to find more books on your topic

• While you’re browsing, you can click on the “Add to List” link to keep track of items you were interested in – Use the “My List” button at the top right to

access your list. You can e-mail the list to yourself.

• Use the Connect NY button to find resources from other universities

• Note: Encore will also give you results from a few databases, but it’s hard to narrow them down using this interface

Independent practice

• Use Search Plus to search the catalog for books on your topic

• Once you find a book enter the title, location and call number in the online survey

Finding Articles via Databases• America: History and Life

– Literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present

– When you e-mail an article be sure to select Citation Format – MLA

– You can simultaneously search this and other Ebsco databases

• Jstor – All content is at least 3 years old – Limit to Article and English Jstor will not e-mail you the full text of the article. To

save the article click View PDF and then save the PDF to your computer or flash drive.

Sample Searches

Jstor

Independent practice

• Find a relevant article in America: History and Life

• Copy and paste the citation information into the online survey and answer the follow up questions

Finding Full Text Articles

• If you don’t see a link to HTML or PDF full text in a database search, click the icon to search all the library’s print and electronic subscriptions to see if we own the full text• If the article is available in a different database, click

the “Article” link

InterLibrary Loan

• If we don’t have full text, click “ILLiad” to request via Interlibrary Loan• You need a library barcode to create an ILLiad

account

• Usually, you receive articles via InterLibrary Loan within 24 hours

Primary Sources

• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers Project – http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html

• American Memory: memory.loc.gov • Library Databases

– Brooklyn Eagle– Making of America– NY Times Archive

Using Google more effectively • Configuring Google

Scholar to show full-text available at Pace– Watch the video:

http://tinyurl.com/configscholar

– Use the site: limiter eg. site: edu

• Filter by reading level and then choose Advanced

MLA Citation StyleTo access resources on MLA citation style, click on How do I? -Cite resources?-The Bedford Handbook

- This is Diana Hacker’s online guide to citations and formatting

To get more help:

• The library home page: pace.edu/library• Use the Ask-a-Librarian link • Under “Library Services,” use the Video tutorials, How

do I?, and Research Guides links

• E-mail Jennifer! jrosenstein@pace.edu• Stop by or call the reference desk (the desk

under the big Information sign in the middle of the library)

• (212) 346-1331