Library History 204

Annotated Bibliographies:

Over the next few weeks, you'll be gathering and curating a list of sources for your annotated bibliography. Here are some resources that will help you think through how to structure your bibligraphy and what to include in your annotations:

• Purdue OWL's Guide to Annotated Bibliographies
• Cornell Library Guide - How to prepare an Annotated Bibliography

Other useful resources:

• History Research Guide
• News Research Guide
• Research Guides (by subject)

Handout we used in class
List of recommended historical figures

Relevant databases for contextual information:

• America, History & Life (1964 to present)
  Covers the world's scholarly literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada.
• Historical Abstracts with Full Text (1955 to present)
  Scholarly literature about world history since 1450 (excluding the United States and Canada).
• Political Science Database (ProQuest) (1985 to present)
  Full-text articles from leading political science and international relations journals.
• JSTOR
  Full-text backfiles of over two thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. (Alumni access)
• Project Muse
  Online database of more than 200 journals from nonprofit publishers. (Alumni access)
• Discover: Start here for books, articles & more
  Simultaneously search research databases plus the Five Colleges Libraries Catalog to find full-text articles, books and more.

• Encyclopaedia Judaica
  Important scholarly encyclopedia for all aspects of Judaic studies.
• Oxford Reference
  Digitized entries from Oxford's Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias, spanning multiple subject areas.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
  70 reference e-books, including multivolume works like the Encyclopedia of Religion, American Decades, and more.
• American National Biography
  Information on over 17,400 men and women.
• Reference Universe
  Searchable index of the library's entire reference collection, both print and electronic.
• Encyclopedia of Religion
  Online version of 15-volume standard reference work.

Entire works written about your figure:

• In the 5 Colleges Catalog, use the "New Search" box in the top left corner, and enter the figure's name, with the last name first, separated by a comma (i.e.: arendt, hannah). Select "Subject begins with" from the drop-down menu (the default is "Keywords anywhere").
• There will often be multiple subheadings that start with the figure's name (such as "Criticism and interpretation"), so you might browse the available options in case something stands out.