HIST090 Research Strategies
Before the first lab session, read the following required lessons:
- Keywords and Subject Headings from Lane Community College: Just below the "Lane Community College" header,click on the link for tutorial page number 9. Read and test yourself with the question on the bottom of this page.
- Interactive Basic Boolean Tutorial (Colorado State University Libraries)
- Narrowing a topic brief lesson (Ohio State University)
- Brainstorm keywords brief lesson (University of Delaware)
- Advanced Boolean Operators 3-5 minutes (Colorado State University)
Read the NPR story from November 22, 2004 (click on "view gallery" for pictures) about a book store that allowed its books to be arranged by color
Superintendent of Documents Classification System (U.S. government publications)
Dewey Decimal Classification system:division of knowledge by tens (click on a number, e.g. "300" to see divisions by ones, and decimals)
Library of Congress classification system
- 21 divisions of knowledge
- how to read an LC call number (sorry about the ads!)
Image from, University of Washington Research 101 tutorial
Detailed comparison of Dewey and LC CLassification (from Wikipedia)
Learn more about ordering from Interlibrary Loan
Web sources: Questions to ask yourself | brief list of considerations
The content on this site was last updated by Dr. Judson Strain, May 28, 2014.
The content of the page was updated by Judson Strain, Reference Librarian, on 05/24/2014.