Chris Nugent (nugent@warren-wilson.edu,
extension 3061)
I will be at the information desk in the library Wednesday and Thursday
evenings.
Library Lingo
Research Tools
How to find:
Web Resources for your topic
Books on your topic
Articles and Databases on your
topic
Reference Books
Materials
in the College Archives
What do
these library words
mean?
Source: Adapted,
with permission,
from Hunter Library, Western Carolina University.
Bibliography - A list of the resources you used to write your
paper. An
annotated bibliography
also gives brief information about the content of each resource and its
usefulness for the paper or project.
Call Number - A specific combination of letters and
numbers assigned to a book that indicates the book's location on the
shelf. Each book has its own unique call number. You find the
call number on the bottom of the screen in our catalog. You need
the entire number to find the book.
Citation - Information about a source
that contains the author, year of publication, volume number, page
numbers, title of periodical, etc. A periodical index or database will
provide a list of citations. The library catalog gives a list of
citations of books. Your bibliography will be a list of citations of
sources you used for your paper.
Copyright - According to the
United States Copyright Office in the Library of Congress, copyright is
"a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States (title
17, U.S. Code) to the authors of “original works of authorship,”
including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other
intellectual works." Copyright law protects both published and
unpublished information (
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html#wci).
Database - "An organized
collection of information, data, or citations stored in electronic
format that can be searched for specific information or records by
techniques specific to each database." -from the University of Texas,
San Antonio Library. Examples of scholarly databases are ATLAS,
JSTOR, and the Humanities Index.
Full Text - The entire text of the article (or
other
document) is available from the database, ready to print from your
computer.
Journal - A periodical containing a collection of
articles, usually written by scholars, presenting information in a
particular area. Examples:
Buddhist-Christian
Studies,
Catholic
World, Hinduism Today, Jewish Journal etc.
Literature Review - A
summary and evaluation of the important works that have been written on
a given topic. This is usually the first part of a paper and
indicates that the author is building on previous knowledge.
Plagiarism - Taking information from another
source and passing it off as your own. This may be done by not giving
credit for a quote or a passage of information or by deliberately
copying a written work or downloading a paper from the Internet.
Reserves - An item that has been
selected by your
instructor for you to read. The items are located in our circulation
area. You check them out, but can generally use them only in the
library for a few hours. Careful, there are fines for late return!
Scholarly Journal - Also referred to as
"Peer-Reviewed" or "Refereed," a scholarly journal features articles
that usually contain original research (qualitative or quantitative),
citations of other works, and have been reviewed and selected by other
scholars in order to be published.
Source or Resource - This can
be a book, a journal article, a video, a website, a CD etc. We
distinguish between primary and secondary sources.
Use these tools for help with researching your
topic
For a refresher on how to do
library research
go to Painless
Library Research
To evaluate what you find on
the Web
go to Evaluating
Web Resources (from Widener University). Look in the
left-hand column under "evaluate web pages" for relevant links.
If you want to learn this and have some fun at the same time, check out
the Internet
Detective!
To recognize and avoid
plagiarism
work with these sites:
Plagiarism,
its nature and consequences (from Duke University Libraries)
Plagiarism,
what it is and how to recognize and avoid it (from Indiana
University)
To
get books and journal articles from other libraries
use our Interlibrary Loan Service. It works like this:
If you need a journal article, check first if we have it. Go
to Journal Finder to
do this.
If there is no access to the journal, go to the library
homepage.
Select Library Services, then Interlibrary Loan. You will
find two request forms, one for books and the other for journal
articles. Fill out the journal articles form.
If you need a book, go to WorldCat
Type in the title of the book.
Look for the ILL icon on the screen, on the upper left-hand
banner. A template will appear. Fill in your personal
information and submit.
Note that it may take one week or longer for the materials to get
here.
Also, make sure you do not have any overdue books or outstanding
fines. Everything must be cleared up before interlibrary loan
requests are processed.
To cite your sources in MLA style
Use the online
guide from Duke University Library
or the
Landmark
Citation Machine.
Web resources
on
your topic
People:
www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/sixties/blmtn.html
(Black Mountain Poets)
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/olson/olson.htm (Charles Olson)
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/cage/
(John Cage)
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/creeley/
(Robert Creeley)
http://www.the-artists.org/ArtistView.cfm?id=8A01F6DD-BBCF-11D4-A93500D0B7069B40
(Ray Johnson)
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/levertov/levertov.htm
(Denise Levertov)
http://the-artists.org/artist/Robert_Rauschenberg.html
(Robert Rauschenberg)
http://www.kqed.org/arts/people/spark/profile.jsp?id=4655
(Article on Merce Cummingham)
http://www.designmuseum.org/design/r-buckminster-fuller
(Biography of Buckminster Fuller)
Biographical Information:
Biography
Resource Center
Organizations:
www.blackmountaincollege.org
(Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center)
www.bmcproject.org
(Black Mountain College Project)
http://www.awsna.org/
(Association of Waldorf Schools of North America website)
http://www.waldorfanswers.org/
(More on Waldorf education)
http://www.workcolleges.org/
(Work Colleges Consortium website)
http://www.antioch.edu/
(Antioch University website)
http://www.goddard.edu/
(Goddard College website)
On Education:
http://www.warren-wilson.edu/~library/eduweb2.htm
Here you can find links to Montessori websites.
To find books on your
topic
MCLN
Catalog
WWC E-Books
WorldCat
To
find journal articles on your topic
The databases listed below
are a good start.
These are big, full-text databases that cover all subjects.
You must specify that you want to retrieve only peer-reviewed,
scholarly articles.
Academic
Search Premier
Proquest Research Library
MasterFILE Premier
JSTOR
Everything in this database is peer-reviewed and scholarly.
Also of interest are the
Chronicle of Higher Education
and the Education database ERIC.
Selected Reference books
Encyclopedia of
Education R 370.3 E56 2003
This source has articles on experiential education,
alternative schooling,
John A. Rice and Black Mountain College, and Rudoph
Steiner.
Leaning Theories R
370.3 L581L 2002
This source has information on experiential learning.
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Last updated: October 15, 2007