The document provides guidance for students on conducting library research, including an overview of the research process and resources available. It recommends beginning in the reference section to explore books for background on topics before searching the catalog for books and databases for journal articles. Tips are provided on evaluating sources and obtaining sources not held in the library through interlibrary loans.

1. Library Research:
An Adventure!
Eng. 1100
Hindishe Lee 3/19/14
(With assistance from Vivian
Moskowitz & Elinor Grumet)

2. • Reference materials
• YULIS catalog for books
• Databases for journal
articles

3. Selected reference books:
World Poets
REF PN 1021 .W67 2000
Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature
REF PS 21 .E 537 2004
American Women Writers
REF PS 147 .A42 2000

4. Oxford
Encyclop.
Of Am.
Lit.
Vol.1
p.181

6. For literary themes:
Dictionary of Literary
Themes & Motifs
REF PN 43 .D48 1988
2 vols.
See: “Travel” (v.2)

7. Things to Think
About Before
You Start….
What can you say about the
background: childhood, family life
and education of
Elizabeth Bishop?
From the age of five she was raised
by various relatives and traveled
throughout her life.*
Do you think these factors
influenced her work? How?
Can you compare her experiences
and work with that of another poet?

10. What is “The Right Stuff”?
What is “The Right Stuff”?
What is
“The Right Stuff”?

11. Scholarly &
Peer Reviewed
Sources

12. How to know if an article is
peer reviewed (or refereed)?
Go to Serials Directory in the
Library Database list.
Enter the title of the
periodical.

15. What’s the problem with Google?
Why Not Wikipedia?

16. GOOGLE & Internet:
“Risky business”.
Difficult to know if
information is reliable.
Anyone can set up a website!
WIKIPEDIA: Anyone can change
the information.

17. GoogleScholar has
scholarly material.
Access through
YU Databases to get Full
Text!

18. Books :
YULIS
catalog

19. 40 results Basic Search

20. Books
Advanced
Search
Limit your search

21. Limiters

22. 55 results

24. 7 Results

27. Databases:
Journal
Articles

28. YU
LIBRARIES HOME PAGE:
yu.edu/libraries

29. YUFind is a metasearch
engine - It searches many
(but not all) - databases
for journal articles
simultaneously.

30. YUFind

31. 6,616 Results

32. 70 results

33. Some Databases for Journal Articles
in Literature
*JSTOR
*Project Muse
Literature Online
Literature Resource Center
*GoogleScholar
MLA
*- covers other subjects as well

34. Databases for
journal articles

37. JSTOR
*

39. 217 R4e5s uRltessults

40. CTRL F

42. Citation Tools

43. Organizes references
Composes bibliography – like
magic!

44. Bibliographic Citation
(MLA style):
White, Heather Cass.
"Elizabeth Bishop's Calling.“
Twentieth Century Literature 48.2
(2002): 117-49. .
JSTOR <http://www.jstor.org/
stable/3176014>.

45. Extra Tip!
The bibliography of an article
or book
can provide further leads
on your quest!

46. ILL – Interlibrary Loans
Never fear!
If you can’t find it
in the YU library, fill out an
Interlibrary Loan request. We will
try to get it for you from another
library!

48. Never be
Afraid to
Ask!

51. Image Credits
Title Image
http://1337x.org/torrent/224468/Space-Travel-Screensaver/
Stop Sign image
https://www.google.com/search?q=stop+sign+image&rls=com.
microsoft:en-US:IE-SearchBox&
tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=tCUFU_mnKdfUsASSg4
C4BQ&ved=0CCYQsAQ&biw=
1010&bih=642#facrc=_&imgdii=_
&imgrc=hZEFifgflxfuEM%253A%3BXFtr4wBcLpcYcM%3Bhttp
%253A%252F%252Fupload.
wikimedia.org%252Fwikipedia%252Fen%252F6%252F69%252F
Stop_
sign(standard).svg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fen.wikipedia.org
%252Fwiki%252FFile%253AStop_sign(standard

52. Puzzled Bird image
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=questioning+images&qpvt=
questioning+images&FORM=IGRE#view=detail&id=A5D23A916E72929655BB12C92
A77701579944677&selectedIndex=392
Grad. Cap image
http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&biw=1010&bih=642&tbm=isch&tbnid=d
FTScETDCyzoyM%3A&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.123rf.
com%2Fphoto_11100940_graduation-cap-and-diploma-vector.html&docid=fkqs
YMdxCRwdRM&imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fus.123rf.com%2F400wm%2F400%2F400%
2Fninell%2Fninell1111%2Fninell111100021%2F11100940-graduation-cap-and-diploma-
vector.jpg&w=1200&h=882&ei=oCwFU-ORK-Ll0wH494GoCg&zoom=
1&ved=0CNkCEIQcMFU&iact=rc&dur=16492&page=6&start=78&ndsp=17
Poet writing with Quill
http://theothershmead.blogspot.com/2011/07/poets-corner-ubi-sunt.html
Earthrise
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1249.html

53. Sailing Ship
http://www.hnsa.org/ships/niagara.htm
Boy Lookout on ship
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Lookout.jpg
Superman image
http://getgraphic.org/blog/index.php/2013/06/08/superman-turns-75/
Stack of books
http://www.npr.org/blogs/ombudsman/2012/09/10/160768675/when-a-popular-list-of-
100-best-ever-teen-books-is-the-whitest-ever
Scholarly journals (Science, etc.)
http://www.udel.edu/research/presenting/reviews.html
Scholarly & Peer Reviewed Sources:
From: Yeshiva University LibGuide Finding Sources by YU Reference Librarian

54. Scholarly & Peer Reviewed Sources:
From: Yeshiva University LibGuide Finding Sources by YU Reference Librarian
Linda Miles - Last Updated Jan 14, 2014
http://libguides.yu.edu/Sources/Scholarly
Primary, Secondary Sources…
From: Hesburgh Libraries – University of Notre Dame -
http://library.nd.edu/instruction/potofgold/informationcycle/?page=11

55. Your research visit to the library will usually
Entail a 3 – pronged process :
1) YULIS catalog for
Books.
2) Reference Section
3) Databases for
journal articles

56. Your research visit to the library will usually
entail a 3 – pronged
process :
• YULIS catalog for Books.
• Reference Section.
• Databases for journal
articles.

57. 6,616 Results!
You can
Refine Results
by:
• Full Text
• Peer Reviewed
• Specific source
types (e.g.:
books)
• Date

58. Where to begin?
Reference books can give you a brief
biographical background and summary of a
writer’s style and work. The Reference
section is located in the North Wing Library.
(Ground floor)
These books may provide you with ideas and
questions you may wish to explore.
The books listed below are a few examples of
literary reference texts that might be helpful.