RESEARCH MINUTES:USING HOLLIS CLASSIC

Using HOLLIS Classic for literary research

FINDING LITERARY CRITICISM

Keyword searching and Subject Searching.

TO LEARN MORE ABOUT A LITERARY WORK

First, about Keyword searches …

The first few matches of 201 total…

Keywords appear in all fields of a record.

Other search strategies

Keywords in subject headings

OR… TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THEMES, CONCEPTS, CONTEXT

Use a “?” to “truncate”… femin? retrieves: feminist, feministe, feminism etc.

Browse more records using clickable subjects.

Illustration from Liberty Enlightening the World, by the Illustrative Press Bureau (New York, N.Y.), 1886.

You may also begin by Subject Searching…

SUBJECT SEARCHING:

which displays an “ordered” view of results *browsable* this way only in HOLLIS Classic..

WIDENER LIBRARY: TWO LOCATIONS FOR

ITEMS

Widener’s Stacks & The Harvard Depository (HD)

Click on Availability to see if on shelf (stacks)…or to request from HD (the Harvard Depository).

WIDENER LIBRARY: TWO CALL NUMBER

SYSTEMS

WID-LC and “Old Widener”

http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/widener/finding_materials/stacks_docs/wid_loc_chart.pdf

http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/widener/finding_materials/stacks_docs/wid_loc_chart.pdf

TEST DRIVE AND DECIDE:

HOLLIS OR HOLLIS CLASSIC

See the “Using HOLLIS” pathfinder

Questions? Mary Beth Clack, mclack@fas.harvard.edu