HST 201World War I and the Middle East.

Fall 2013

Michael Unsworth

History Librarian

unsworth@msu.edu

WHY YOU ARE HERE

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OUTLINE• Decoding citations• Retrieving Materials• Team Project• Finding Quick/Background

Info• Using the Online Catalog• Finding Articles• Locating Bibliographies• Locating Primary Sources• Questions

RETRIEVING MATERIAL

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14 Digit ID Number

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WORLDCAT

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IT’S ACTIVE LEARNING TIME!!!

• YOUR TEAM HAS FIVE (5) MINUTES

• YOU CAN USE ANY RESOURCE, INCLUDING WIKIPEDIA (except when specified otherwise)

QUICK/BACKGROUND INFORMATION

A brief description (2 paragraphs to 3 pages) about the Mandate System except Wikipedia

Getting Articles From Other Libraries

ArticleReach Form

Using the Online Catalog

Books about the Siege of Kut

SCHOLARLY ARTICLES• Authors are authorities in their fields. • Articles are written for other researchers or for serious

students of the subject.• Individual issues have little or no advertising.  • Articles are usually reports of scholarly research. • Illustrations usually take the form of charts and graphs.  • Articles use formal language or the jargon of the

discipline. • Articles must go through a peer-review or refereed

process (review by two or more experts before being approved for publication). 

• Authors cite their sources in endnotes, footnotes, or bibliographies. 

FINDING SCHOLARLY ARTICLES

INDEXES THAT LIST SCHOLARLY HISTORY ARTICLES:

U.S.A. AND CANADA

EVERY OTHER PLACE FROM 1450 ONWARDS

• A scholarly article about the Arab Revolt

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

“…the compiler of a BIBLIOGRAPHY acts as a scholarly research assistant, providing a summary of what is available in one easy-to-use guide.”Meyer, Jack Allen. An annotated bibliography of the Napoleonic era: recent publications, 1945-1985 (New York : Greenwood Press, 1987): xi.

Bibliography on World War One that has resources on the Middle East. It can not deal with a military operation. Get citations for a book and a

journal article

FROM A BOOK

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INDEX

PRIMARY SOURCES:Definition

“…items that are directly associated with their producer or user and the time period in which they were created. Examples, include diaries, newspapers articles, government documents, photographs, oral interviews, and news broadcasts.”

SOURCE: Presnell, Jenny L. The information-literate historian : a guide to research for history students (New York : Oxford University Press, 2007): 93.

CAUTION: MEMOIRS

Books or journals by the British Foreign Office dealing with the First World War. Prefer to have been written before 1920. Bonus: find one dealing with the Middle East.

PRIMARY SOURCE ABOUT THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

SOURCES USED IN A WORK

sources manuscripts

archives notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.

archival resources personal narratives, American [Chinese, Finnish]

correspondence personnel records

diaries records and correspondence

An article from a newspaper written between 1909 and 1923 about the Young Turks’ reforms

QUESTIONS

What are you not quite clear about from today’s session; what is muddy in your head?

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