HTTP://MIRLYN.LIB.UMICH.EDU/ MIRLYN IS THE UM LIBRARIES
CATALOG. MIRLYN LISTS WHAT THE UM LIBRARIES OWN AND PROVIDE ACCESS
TO. YOU CAN SEARCH MIRLYN TO FIND: BOOKS, MUSIC, JOURNALS, MEDIA,
ETC. Using Mirlyn
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Library Homepage Click here for the Catalog! You can also
search the catalog here!
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Mirlyn Home Page Enter your search on this line here.
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Use Advanced Search to better refine your search. Sometimes the
best search is the most simple but the advanced search can be a
useful too. 1 Use the different fields of the advanced search to
limit by multiple concepts. 2 This Search will only return
materials that are about the Subject World War AND have the word
Roosevelt in the Title. Only materials written in English, have a
copy in Shapiro, and are tagged with the Discipline-United States
History will show up in your search results. Searching by both
Subject AND Title will help you find more specific materials than
if you included both ideas in the same line. You can narrow your
search by language, academic discipline or format
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Selecting books from the search results. The results of the
search. You can see that search terms at the top of the page and on
the left you can see the limiting factors that you put in place
Clicking on the limiting factors will broaden the search and return
more items. If your returns are too broad you can limit your
results by the factors here
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Using the Book Record to refine/broaden your search Ways to
continue your search 1) Author 2) Subjects 3) Series Some books are
part of series Click on the author. He/She might have written other
materials relevant to your search Look at the subject heading.
These might be good terms to search if you need more
materials.
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Using the book record to find similar materials. Users can
continue searching by looking at the Similar Items box. Similar
items include those with similar topics but are often books by the
same author. As you can see these are not necessarily the same
topic. Look at these similar item. But notice some items seems more
closely connected then others.
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Find more books using call numbers. Library of Congress call
numbers relate to the Library of Congress subject headings. In the
example on the left: Call numbers that start with D will be about
(General) History and the number 731-838 focus on World War II.
Once you have found materials. Search using call numbers Notice how
all these materials have similar call numbers and similar
topics
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Mirlyn offers a number of tools to help you access the
materials you have selected. 1 Call number. Michigan primarily uses
the Library of Congress call numbers. Always remember to include
the letter at the beginning of the sequence. 2 Cite this 3 Text
this/Email this 4 Export to refworks/Endnote 5 Get this Will
produce APA and MLA citation styles. Send the title, author, and
call number to your email or your phone If you use refworks or
Endnote this will send the information there. Use get this to have
the material delivered to the library closest to you. The call
number and the library it can be found in.
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Making sure the book you found will be useful. When you have
found the book you think you need, take a moment to look at the
Table of Contents. For example: You are writing a paper about class
in Medieval Europe. Looking at the Table of Contents might tell you
if this book will be useful. In addition, using the table of
contents will help you narrow down what sections of the book you
will need to read.
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Making sure the book you found will be useful part II. If you
are researching something more specific, look at the index. Not
only will this help you make an evaluation about the usefulness of
the material, it will also help you decide what sections of the
book you need to read.
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Using References/Bibliography to find other materials Knowing
what sources authors have used will help you make decisions about
whether or not you can trust the work. Are the sources the author
used reputable, are they outdated etc. References can also give
suggestions about what other materials might be useful.
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Finding other books in the stacks. When you find the book you
want in the stacks. Take a look at the books nearby. Notice they
might be useful to you as well. Not all will be useful but it is
worth the time to look.
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References Slide 10 Bloch, Marc Lopold Benjamin. Feudal
Society.. [Chicago]: University of Chicago Press, 1961. Slide 11
and 12 Beckett, I. F. W. The Great War, 1914-1918. Harlow, England:
Longman, 2001.