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Winter 2009
Getting Started
Make use of the library's How To Guides - particularly useful for this assignment are:
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Background Information
- Use the resources listed below to get an overview of your topic. Encyclopedias, bibliographies, and scholarly web pages are a good starting point for any research project. See How to Evaluate Information on the Web for help with assessing web pages.
- Write down key dates, facts, statistics provided, look for a bibliography and make use of it.
- Look up (in cruzcat) the titles of journals and books referenced in the encyclopedias, bibliographies or web pages and see if we own them at UCSC.
The list below represents a sample of options, use Cruzcat to find more.
Selected UCSC-owned Print Options:
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Selected UCSC-owned Electronic Options
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Selected Web Sites
- African American World - PBS website, browse the site, select "reference room" link for people or topic overviews or select "resources" link for paths to other websites of interest.
- The Black Press: Soldiers without Swords - a sub-site of the African American World site, includes brief biographies of writers/editors and descriptions, histories of the papers.
- In Motion The African American Migration Experience - website produced by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Site includes many images, maps, scans of original texts, timelines, bibliographies, coverage from slave trade through present.
- Harlem 1900-1940 Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - New York Public Library Schomburg Center produced site. Site includes bibliographies, timelines, and brief biographies.
- American Memory - Library of Congress site. Contains brief overviews of topics, biographies and links to pamphlet collections (primary source material).
- Five Views An Ethnic Historic Site for the State of California - California Department of Parks and Recreation Office of Historic Preservation sponsored site. Overview of history of African Americans in California and a "selected" bibliography.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute - Stanford University affiliate. The institute is pulling together and publishing MLK's papers. Click on the King Papers Project link and browse the individual links listed under each volume. Bibliographies, brief biographies and titles of collections produced by the center, are all available for your perusal.
- Documenting the American South - University Library of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill project includes texts, oral histories, interviews and songs that document the history of the American south. Search under collections for links to oral histories of the civil rights era, for example.
- Archives of African American Music and Culture - Indiana University (IU) managed archive site. The external resources site provides a nicely organized list of musical genres and IU vetted external internet sites.
- Timeline of African American History - Library of Congress site.
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Find Articles
Select the Newspaper link from the library research page for a list of on-line newspaper options, historical and current.
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Find Books & Journals
- Start with a keyword search in cruzcat.
- Use the keywords you gathered through searching in the encyclopedias and web pages in cruzcat.
- Make note of the subjects cruzcat uses to describe your topic; link from the subject headings
- If your topic is a person, try searching for your person as a subject in cruzcat, ex. Du Bois, W.E.B.
- Use the modify or limit/sort button to focus your search
- Send successful searches to your email account - put the keywords you used in the message line to remind yourself of how you found the item
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Statistics
- Statistical Record of Black America - McHenry Reference E185.5 S73 (3rd ed.)
- Black Americans: A Statistical Source Book - McHenry Reference E185.86 B48 2001
- Historical Statistics of Black America - McHenry Reference E185 H543 1995
- How to find Statistics web page.
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Format Your Bibliography/Works Cited
Make use of the database citation tools to help keep track of and format your citations:
- America History and Life allows you to instantly format citations in MLA style and email them to yourself, or, export them into Endnote or RefWorks.
- JSTOR and Project Muse allow you to email all of the citation information you will need to format your citation, but won't do it for you.
- Attend a FREE Bibliography/Works Cited Software Library workshop on 2/19/09, 2pm, in the S&E Library. Send me an email if you would like to attend or learn more about these tools.
- Make use of the library's print copies of the MLA handbook or A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (Kate Turabian)
Updated 1/16/09
Kerry Scott
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