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Exds 2001 Nostalgics and Nowhere-ians
This document provides guidance to students on two assignments for a class. The first assignment asks students to research the history of their hometown or a place with which they are familiar, highlighting changes over time and what gives the place its unique identity. Students are directed to use resources like local history collections, websites, books, newspapers, tours, and interviews. The second assignment involves researching a contemporary setting or subculture different from one's own to explain it from an outsider's perspective and how people search for meaning. Students are advised on narrowing their topic and given examples of resources to use, including databases, verified websites, and international organizations. The document offers help and contact information for librarians.
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- 1. EXDS 2001 Nostalgics andNowhere-ians
- 2. How am Isuppose to remember all this stuff? Click Here on “Research Guides” link 2
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- 4. ONU ID isLibrary card EVA Eva Maglott 00021559801 Eva Maglott Please use all digits in your student ID number.
- 5. Assignment #1 • researchon the history of your own town or city (or, if more appropriate, state, region, or country); i.e., the place of residence with which you have greatest familiarity. • highlight major changes that have occurred and compare current characteristics of the locale with key characteristics from the past. • seek to identify what has given the locale its unique identity, then strategize means for preserving that uniqueness in the face of (post-) modernity and globalization
- 6. Resources for Assignment#1 utilize various resources for your historicalsociological study: • • • • • • • Local history collections of local public library or museum Viable internet resources Books, Newspapers or other periodicals, Tours, Visits with civic groups, Interviews
- 7. So what doI do first? • Head to Google or your favorite search engine • Now is the time to use this often less than reliable resource • If there is information you need to verify, head to the library resources or governmental resources such as Proquest Statistic Abstracts USA or Fact Finder of the US Census Bureau
- 8. Internet Resources • Localpublic library – Most have local history or genealogy rooms – Most do not have the staff to help over the phone – Local histories but DO NOT BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ!!! • Chambers of Commerce • Genealogy pages for the city, county or state • Personal pages of enthusiasts but DO NOT BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ!!!
- 9. Other places tosearch • Hathi Trust -- ebook collection • AP Images • Archives of the Ohio Historical Society • Ohio History Central • Ohio Memory Project • Remarkable Ohio •
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- 11. What is included? •POLAR • Article-level searching for all EBSCO databases • Article-level searching for a variety of other databases: JSTOR, Hoover’s, AccessPharmacy, e tc. • Title-level searching for most other databases: IEEE, CIAO, Proquest Nursing & Allied Health • OhioLink central catalog
- 12. Results: Full Text,Polar
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- 14. Results: Find It@ ONU
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- 16. Facets: Limit YourResults
- 17. Things to Remember •Facets are your Friend: After you search, limit your results to what you really want • A tool not a solution: This is not the solution to everything • Ask the librarians for help • There will still be some small changes coming
- 18. HML resources • Catalogs –POLAR – OhioLINK – SearchOhio – WorldCat • Databases • Newspapers • Other
- 19. Catalogs • POLAR --shows you what is here and at the law library • OhioLINK -- shows you what is available at other Ohio colleges and universities • SearchOhio -- shows you what is available at several of the largest public libraries in Ohio • WorldCat -- shows you what is available at scholarly and public libraries around the world.
- 20. Databases • • • • • • • • • America : History& Life American Periodicals Series Online Ancestry Library Edition Early American Imprints - Series 1: 1639 - 1800 Early American Imprints, Series II, ShawShoemaker, 1801-1819 Historical Statistics of the United States History and Archival Images Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, 1867-1970, Ohio Serial Set Maps
- 21. Newspapers • Early AmericanNewspapers, Series 13, 1690-1922 • HarpWeek : The Civil War Era • New York Times (1851 – 2007) • Newsbank • Ohio Newspapers • Newspaper Source
- 22. QUESTIONS? • Ask atthe Reference Desk • Phone the Reference Desk – 2185 • Contact us by E-mail reference@onu.edu • Contact me at t-moritz@onu.edu or ext 2473
- 23. Assignment #2 • Aproject in a format to be agreed upon by instructor and student—research paper, extended book report, scholarly analysis of an encounter with the unfamiliar, creative project • Each of you will choose a contemporary setting or (sub-) culture which is quite different from your own and research it through instructor-guided reading. You then will produce a project which attempts to explain that subject from a sensitive outsider’s perspective and to shed light on the human search for meaning as relevant to the subject.
- 24. So what next? •Start big doing background reading • Look for patterns • Look at reference sources, LC subject heading list, subject headings in research tools • Ask a librarian • Look at thesaurus in the research tools • Narrow your topic for a more focused product
- 25. Resources • • • • • Catalogs Databases Verified internet resources Lexis-Nexisacademic International organizations – United Nations – World Trade Organization – Amnesty International
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- 27. Databases • • • • • Revisit ones listedabove + Academic Search Complete MasterFILE Premier (popular magazines) JSTOR : the Scholarly Journal Archive CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online) • International organizations • See Research guide for other suggestions
- 28. Internet Tools Note: If working off campus please seethe “google scholar” tab at the Research Guide for EXDS 2001 Google Scholar ONU buys Full-text database OhioLINK Permits Google to link to full-text ONU user sees licensed full-text articles Google asks to link to content Run Google Scholar Search
- 29. QUESTIONS? • Ask atthe Reference Desk • Phone the Reference Desk – 2185 • Contact us by E-mail reference@onu.edu • Professor Moritz at ext 2473 or t-moritz@onu.edu