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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
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