HST 201: PEOPLING OF AMERICA

Spring 2014

Michael Unsworth

History Librarian

unsworth@msu.edu

WHY YOU ARE HERE

Annotated Bibliography = 10%

Research paper = 45%

OUTLINE• Decoding citations• Retrieving Materials• Reviewing the Team

Project• Finding Quick/Background

Info• Finding Scholarly Articles• Using the Online Catalog• Locating Bibliographies• Locating Primary Sources• Questions

DECODING CITATIONS

Retrieving Materials

RETRIEVING MATERIAL

MELCAT

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14 Digit ID Number

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WORLDCAT

WORLDCAT

ILLIAD

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IT’S ACTIVE LEARNING TIME!!!

• YOUR TEAM HAS FIVE (5) MINUTES

• YOU CAN USE ANY RESOURCE, INCLUDING WIKIPEDIA (except when specified otherwise)

QUICK/BACKGROUND INFORMATION

• A two to four paragraph description about Immigration and Naturalization Service using any source except Wikipedia

SCHOLARLY ARTICLES• Authors are authorities in their fields. • Articles are written for other researchers or for serious

students of the subject.• Individual issues have little or no advertising.  • Articles are usually reports of scholarly research. • Illustrations usually take the form of charts and graphs.  • Articles use formal language or the jargon of the

discipline. • Articles must go through a peer-review or refereed

process (review by two or more experts before being approved for publication). 

• Authors cite their sources in endnotes, footnotes, or bibliographies. 

FINDING SCHOLARLY ARTICLES

INDEXES THAT LIST SCHOLARLY HISTORY ARTICLES:

U.S.A. AND CANADA

EVERY OTHER PLACE FROM 1450 ONWARDS

A scholarly article about labor unions and immigration for the period 1870-1930

Getting Articles From Other Libraries

ArticleReach Form

Using the Online Catalog

Books about the “Know Nothing“ Party or Movement written before 1865

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.

• Bibliography on German Americans and get citations for a book and a journal article

FROM A PUBLISHED WORK

IN THE ONLINE CATALOG

IN THE ONLINE CATALOG

PREFACE

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

Books or journals by an immigrant rights group written

between 1950 and 1980

Primary source about Chinese in the United States

or in any state

SOURCES USED IN A WORK

sources manuscripts

archives notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.

archival resources personal narratives, American [Chinese, Finnish]

correspondence personnel records

diaries records and correspondence

An article from a contemporary newspaper about Michigan’s Purple Gang

QUESTIONS

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

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