English 120/History 113U:Library Instruction Session

Jennifer Rosenstein, First Year Outreach Services Librarian

Photo by Sara Morishige Williams

Assessment for today’s class o Open the following

link: o http://tinyurl.com/eng120his113

o Answer the first 3 questions

o Keep the survey open throughout today’s session

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The library… not just books

• http://youtu.be/W3ZHPJT2Kp4

Our goals for today:Review using the Pace

Catalog to find booksRequest books from

another Pace campusUse ConnectNY

Be able to find articles from 3 different databases

Learn how to search Google more effectively

Know where to go for information on MLA citation style

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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• Academic Search Premier

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

• America: History and Life– Literature on the history and culture of the United States

and Canada from prehistoric times to the present You can search both of these databases at the same

time using the Choose Databases link

• 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.

Generating Search Terms

Terms relating to Justification

Terms relating to Bombing

Terms relating to Location / Context

Ethic* Atom* bomb Hiroshima

Necess* Nuclear weapon* Nagasaki

Moral* Little Boy Japan

Justif* Fat Man World War II

Casualt*

Sample Searches

Jstor

Independent practice

• Find a relevant article in Academic Search Premier and/or 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 we don’t have full text, click “ILLiad” to request via Interlibrary Loan• You need a library barcode to

create an ILLiad account

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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 AdvancedPhoto by scarletgreen

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