HST 290: Practice of History – Local History: Civil Rights

1. HST 290: Practice of History – Local History: Civil Rights Dr. Lisa Pollard Kristin Andrews andrewsk@uncw.edu

2. Your Current Research Skills? • How would you rate your current research skills? • Strong • Satisfactory • Needs improvement • Poor • What causes you the most anxiety/confusion/frustration with research?

3. Our plan for the library sessions • Review Research Guide for this course. • Explore various search tools. • Learn to identify primary sources. • Become familiar with special services. • Interlibrary Loan • Ask a librarian

4. Where to get help • Learning Commons Help Desk • In person • Telephone • Email • Chat • Text • By Appointment • Contact me directly: andrewsk@uncw.edu

5. Resource Types • Primary vs. Secondary (more next time) • Articles • Scholarly • Popular • Books • Theses & Dissertations • Websites

6. Finding Articles • Home page Article Search (WorldCat Local) • Databases A-Z • Individual databases • Databases by Subject • Citation Searching

7. Database Exploration • America: History & Life • JSTOR • Academic Search Complete

8. Search tips • And, Or, Not • And narrows • Or adds synonyms/related • Not excludes (use carefully) Civil Rights Movement in North Carolina • Civil rights AND North Carolina AND movement • Movement OR activism OR civil disobedience

9. More Search Tips • Truncate for word variations • Activis* = activist, activism • Words anywhere or phrase? • Be all you can be vs. “Be all you can be” • Field-specific searches • American Historical Review in Source

10. Working from a known citation • Heider, Carmen. “Farm Women, Solidarity and the Suffrage Messenger: Nebraska Suffrage Activism on the Plains, 1915-1917." Great Plains Quarterly 32, no. 2 (Spring 2012): 113-130. • Does the library have it? • What format or location? • What online access?

11. Working from a known citation • Dumenil, Lynn. "Women's Reform Organizations and Wartime Mobilization in World War I-Era Los Angeles." Journal Of The Gilded Age & Progressive Era 10, no. 2 (April 2011): 213-245. • Does the library have it? • What format or location? • What online access?

12. Database Exploration • America: History & Life • JSTOR • Academic Search Complete

13. Try it yourself!

14. Finding Books • Library Catalog • local & UNCP/FSU • WorldCat Local • 9,000 libraries / ~1.2 billion items • Google Books (~12 million / ~7 million full-text) • Project Gutenberg (~40,000 books) • Some databases lead to books • Cited directly • Book reviews

15. Keyword vs. Subject Searching • Keyword • Finds words anywhere in record. • Look at records to see subject headings. • Search lots of terms, word variations • Subject Headings • Controlled vocabulary • May not be “natural language” but may find more • Hierarchical arrangement helps narrow topic • Searches only the subject field

16. Keyword vs. Subject in action • What is a useful Subject Heading for Civil Rights Movement? • Start with a keyword search, then look for subjects in the records retrieved. • Use subject headings to lead you to other titles • Same terms used in WorldCat

17. Searching Personal Names • Keyword searches • Either order • Try name variations, e.g., initials • Author/Subject • Last name first, e.g. Eaton, Hubert

18. Looking at the catalog record • Item Info • Location (click for map) • Call # • Availability • Online Access • Cover, summary, reviews • Subjects for related items • Library of Congress outline • http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html • SuDoc arranges by agency • Expanding search to UNCCLC • Add to Bag/Add to My Lists

19. Finding Books – LC Call Nos. • Alpha-numeric • Single letters before double • First number is a whole number • Everything after the decimal point is a decimal value.

20. LC Call Numbers

21. LC Call Numbers

22. Try it yourself!

23. WorldCat • May find items at Randall that catalog search didn’t • Finds items for ILL requests • Rare items not lent • Rare items may be reprinted & available • Websites included – often w/ free access!

24. Interlibrary Loan • Create an account/create a new account • Username – UNCW domain name • Password – UNCW password

25. Next Class • Primary Sources • What they are • How to find them • Government Documents

26. Questions? What will you do when you have questions?

27. Ask for help – it’s what we do! Kristin Andrews andrewsk@uncw.edu General Library Help http://library.uncw.edu

28. HST 290: Practice of History – Local History: Civil Rights Dr. Lisa Pollard Kristin Andrews andrewsk@uncw.edu

29. Since last time… • How’s it going? • Any issues? • Guide

30. Primary Sources • Diaries, journals, other writings of “players” • Eyewitness/observer accounts • Memoirs, autobiographies (written later) • Government & other official documents • Laws, treaties, reports, orders, transcripts of proceedings, addresses, congressional hearings, census records, etc. • Cartoons and Advertisements (of the time) • Photographs and images • Movies! • Interviews

31. Primary or Secondary? • Scholarly article on the use of civil disobedience during the civil rights movement. • The text of the 19th amendment on voting rights • An encyclopedia on the civil rights movement. • Collection of transcripts of interviews with NC civil rights activists published in a book. • A News & Observer article about the history of civil rights in NC. • New York Times advertisements, found in the New York Times Archive database.

32. Randall Catalog & WorldCat • Search general headings • civil rights and interview • Search specific headings or persons • as author (Eaton, Hubert) • Look for items not tagged as primary source • Primary documents may be included in secondary sources • Eyewitness authors may not be tagged as sources

33. Randall Catalog & WorldCat • Standard Subheadings • Correspondence • Diaries • Interviews • Personal narratives • Sources • Catalogs • Manuscripts • Pictorial Works • Portraits • Speeches • Notebooks/Sketch-books • Archives • Cartoons • Descriptions • Description and travel

34. Periodicals and Newspapers • New York Times Archive • News & Observer Index • Readers’ Guide Retrospective • Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective • Newspapers on microfilm, e.g. Wilmington Morning Star

35. Digital Collections • Lots of collections • Libraries (UNCW Collections) • Library of Congress • UNC – Documenting the American South • American Memory • DPLA (Digital Public Library of America)

36. Official Documents - Legal • Lexis Nexis Academic • Legal research • A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation – LOC • History of the Federal Judiciary – Federal Judicial Center • Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights – Thurgood Marshall Law Library • Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research – GSU College of Law

37. So Many Collections So Little Time! • American Presidency Project • AMDOCS – Documents for the Study of American History • Hathi Trust >10,000,000 volumes • Project Gutenberg >42,000 e-books • Making of America • Cornell • University of Michigan • Online Speech Bank • Women and Social Movements in the US, 1600-2000

38. Bibliographies—Follow the trail • Book-length (Reference Collection) • Secondary sources (books and journal articles) • Types • Classified (easiest to find primary sources) • Alphabetical • Footnotes/Endnotes • What can you find?

39. Government Documents • FDLP – Federal Depository Library Program • was established by Congress to ensure that the American public has access to its Government’s information • anyone can access depository libraries and use its collections • Regional and Selective Depositories • UNCW is a large selective at @ 75% • Classified by publishing agency • SuDocs

40. Government Documents • Fdsys – Federal Digital System • America’s Authentic Government Information • FedStats • Statistics from more than 100 agencies and sub-agencies of federal and states government • HeinOnline • Congressional documents, court cases, etc. • ProQuestCongressional • Congressional Documents

41. Questions? What will you do when you have questions?

42. Ask for help –it’s what we do! Kristin Andrews andrewsk@uncw.edu General Library Help http://library.uncw.edu