HST 483Nationalism and National Identity

Spring 2013

Michael UnsworthHistory Librarian

unsworth@msu.edu

Why You Are Here

Prospectus/Bibliography = 15% Research paper = 35%

OUTLINE• Decoding citations• Retrieving Materials• Historical Abstracts• Online Reference Tools• Locating Bibliographies• Locating Primary

Sources• Other Indexes• Questions

RETRIEVING MATERIAL:WORLDCAT

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RETRIEVING MATERIAL

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Topic: Ethnic CleansingSearch in Historical Abstracts

Getting Articles From Other Libraries

14 Digit ID Number

Basque NationalismUSE Gale Virtual Reference Library:

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.

FROM AN ARTICLE’S BIBLIOGRAPHY

IRISH NATIONALISM:1900-1923

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FINDING BIBLIOGRAPHIES IN THE ONLINE CATALOG

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

sources manuscripts

archives notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.

archival resources personal narratives, American Chinese, Finnish

correspondence personnel records

diaries records and correspondence

Kosovar Nationalism

INTRODUCTION

QUESTIONS

What was/were the most valuable thing(s) you learned

today?

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

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