EXDS 2001  Nostalgics and Nowhere-ians

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Eva Maglott

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Assignment #1• research on the history of your own town or city (or, if

more appropriate, state, region, or country); i.e., the place of residence with which you have greatest familiarity. 

• highlight major changes that have occurred and compare current characteristics of the locale with key characteristics from the past. 

• seek to identify what has given the locale its unique identity, then strategize means for preserving that uniqueness in the face of (post-) modernity and globalization

Resources for Assignment #1

utilize various resources for your historical-sociological study:  • Local history collections of local public library or museum• Viable internet resources• Books,• Newspapers or other periodicals,• Tours, • Visits with civic groups, • Interviews

So what do I do first?

• Head to Google or your favorite search engine

• Now is the time to use this often less than reliable resource

• If there is information you need to verify, head to the library resources or governmental resources such as Proquest Statistic Abstracts USA  or Fact Finder of the US Census Bureau

Internet Resources• Local public library

– Most have local history or genealogy rooms– Most do not have the staff to help over the

phone– Local histories but DO NOT BELIEVE

EVERYTHING YOU READ!!!• Chambers of Commerce• Genealogy pages for the city, county or state• Personal pages of enthusiasts but DO NOT

BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ!!!

Other places to search

• Hathi Trust -- ebook collection• AP Images• Archives of the Ohio Historical Societ

y• Ohio History Central• Ohio Memory Project• Remarkable Ohio•

SEARCH

What is included?

• POLAR• Article-level searching for all EBSCO

databases• Article-level searching for a variety of other

databases: JSTOR, Hoover’s, AccessPharmacy, etc.

• Title-level searching for most other databases: IEEE, CIAO, Proquest Nursing & Allied Health

• OhioLink central catalog

Results: Full Text, Polar

Results: OhioLink

Results: Find It @ ONU

Results: ILL

Facets: Limit Your Results

Things to Remember• Facets are your Friend: After you

search, limit your results to what you really want

• A tool not a solution: This is not the solution to everything

• Ask the librarians for help• There will still be some small changes

coming

HML resources

• Catalogs– POLAR– OhioLINK– SearchOhio– WorldCat

• Databases• Newspapers• Other

Catalogs

• POLAR -- shows you what is here and at the law library

• OhioLINK -- shows you what is available at other Ohio colleges and universities

• SearchOhio -- shows you what is available at several of the largest public libraries in Ohio

• WorldCat -- shows you what is available at scholarly and public libraries around the world.

Databases• America : History & Life • American Periodicals Series Online • Ancestry Library Edition • Early American Imprints - Series 1: 1639 - 1800 • Early American Imprints, Series II, Shaw-Shoemaker,

1801-1819• Historical Statistics of the United States• History and Archival Images • Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, 1867-1970, Ohio• Serial Set Maps

Newspapers

• Early American Newspapers, Series 1-3, 1690-1922

• HarpWeek : The Civil War Era• New York Times (1851 – 2007) • Newsbank• Ohio Newspapers • Newspaper Source 

• Ask at the Reference Desk• Phone the Reference Desk – 2185• Contact us by E-mail

reference@onu.edu • Contact me at t-moritz@onu.edu

or ext 2473

QUESTIONS?

Assignment #2• A project in a format to be agreed upon by instructor and

student—research paper, extended book report, scholarly analysis of an encounter with the unfamiliar, creative project

•  Each of you will choose a contemporary setting or (sub-) culture which is quite different from your own and research it through instructor-guided reading.  You then will produce a project which attempts to explain that subject from a sensitive outsider’s perspective and to shed light on the human search for meaning as relevant to the subject.

So what next?• Start big doing background reading• Look for patterns• Look at reference sources, LC subject

heading list, subject headings in research tools

• Ask a librarian• Look at thesaurus in the research tools• Narrow your topic for a more focused

product

Resources

• Catalogs• Databases• Verified internet resources• Lexis-Nexis academic• International organizations

– United Nations– World Trade Organization– Amnesty International

Country

Databases

• Revisit ones listed above +• Academic Search Complete• MasterFILE Premier (popular magazines)  • JSTOR : the Scholarly Journal Archive• CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Onlin

e) 

• International organizations • See Research guide for other suggestions

Google ScholarONU buysFull-textdatabase

OhioLINKPermits

Google tolink to full-text

Google asksto link tocontent

ONU user sees licensed full-textarticles

Run Google ScholarSearch

Note: If working offcampus please see the “google scholar” tab at the Research Guide for EXDS 2001

Internet Tools

• Ask at the Reference Desk• Phone the Reference Desk –

2185• Contact us by E-mail

reference@onu.edu • Professor Moritz at ext 2473 or

t-moritz@onu.edu

QUESTIONS?