MODERN HEROES October 28, 2008
Posted by Ms. Klemundt in Help with Assignments.trackback
Here are some of the research suggestions and web resources we discussed when Mrs. Martin’s English I classes came to the library this week. Refer to your handout for more complete information. The library staff will be happy to help if you are having trouble finding resources for your research.
There are a couple of ways to search library catalogs for books:
- Do a Subject search for your person: enter Last Name, First Name
- Do a Keyword search for your person: enter “First Name Last Name” (use the quotation marks)
- Do a Subject search by a profession or area of endeavor: Women physicians, Women dancers, Women politicians. Or broaden your search by dropping “Women”; for example, Physicians, Dancers, Politicians. Then use the Table of Contents or index to find women working in these fields.
Search the Res Library Catalog and also your public library catalog. Here are the links to some public libraries:
- Chicago Public Library (http://www.chipublib.org)
- Niles Public Library (http://www.nileslibrary.org)
- Park Ridge Public Library (http://www.parkridgelibrary.org)
Some of the databases we subscribe to that might be helpful are:
- Britannica Online. This online encyclopedia provides basic, introductory information and is a great place to start. Look at all the places your person is mentioned so you have a better idea of her accomplishments and significance.
- Reader’s Guide Full Text Select. This is a database of articles published in magazines. Once you login, click on the checkbox next to “Reader’s Guide.”
- EBSCO Science Reference Center. Once you login, click on “EBSCOhost Research Databases” to get to the Science Reference Center. This is a good place to find information on scientists, astronauts, doctors, etc. It includes chapters from books, reports, and articles from journals and magazines.
- Gale Literature Resource Center. An important source if you are researching an author or poet. Make sure only the checkbox next to “Biographies” is checked in the “By content type:” section and this will limit your search to biographical information.
- FACTS.com Issues & Controversies and Today’s Science. These are 2 separate databases. Use Issues & Controversies for information about women active in social and political issues. Use Today’s Science for women working in science, medicine, health care, etc.
Here are some web resources to get you started. Some of these sites are good places to look for ideas of a woman to research. Whatever website you find, make sure you know who the author is and their credentials so you know the extent to which you can trust the information you are given.
- Internet Public Library Biographies Collection (http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/ref15.00.00)
- Librarians’ Internet Index (http://www.lii.org)
- Time 100 (http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/time100)
- Women Nobel Laureates (http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/women.html)
- Women of NASA (http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/women/intro.html)
- Center for American Women and Politics (http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu)
- Sports : Breaking Records, Breaking Barriers (http://americanhistory.si.edu/sports/exhibit/introduction/index.cfm)
- Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership (http://www.guide2womenleaders.com)
Mrs. Martin will help you use your Writing Stylus to format your citations and create your bibliography. Another excellent resource for help with the MLA format is the Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/). The Oregon School Library Information System provides a nice set of examples of MLA citations in a PDF document (http://old.oslis.org/docs/MLAcitexamprtnprt8-07.pdf).
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