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English 251, K. Foster, Instructor
REFERENCE BOOKS: The following titles are not exclusive, but will give you a good idea of what is available. A great search strategy is to browse in the area where you have found useful books. Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism R 809.04.T971 Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism Annual Cumulative Title Index R 809.04T971 American Women Writers R 810.99287 A512 v.2 Dictionary of American Biography Supplement Four 1946-1950 R 920 D554 Critical Survey of Drama, Revised Edition R 822.009 C934 Current Biography, 1948 R 920 C97 ONLINE BOOK CATALOG: Search by title, subject, author, key word. **Great search strategy, find a book(s) that is very relevant to your topic and then look at the subject headings of that book for further searching. For example, the key word gender brought up books that yielded the following subject headings that may be useful: sex role; sex differences; gender identity; sexism; man/woman relationships; women-psiychology; femnism. From these subject headings, these titles looked good: Male/Female Roles (Opposing Viewpoints series); Feminism (Opposing Viewpoints series); Fire with Fire The New Female Power and How it Will Change the 21st Century; The Feminine Mistake Are We Giving Up Too Much? NetLibrary: eBooks. Electronic full-text copies of published print materials, such as reference books, scholoarly monographs, fiction and non-fiction books. Can access NetLibrary on campus, but will need a NetLibrary user account for access from a computer outside the COS library. See instructions under Online Book Catalogs on the COS Library homepage. It is easy! Search example: Subject search - sex role. ACADEMIC ELECTRONIC DATABASES: To find out which periodicals have articles on a given topic, it is necessary to use an index. Indexes are available in paper and electronic formats. REMOTE ACCESS: page containing the necessary logins and passwords. Academic Search Elite (Ebscohost): Infotrac (Expanded Academic ASAP): Default search page is a subject search. Glaspell, Susan is a subject and there are several articles that may prove helpful. INTERNET SEARCHING:
Sample searches in Google: The Internet Public Library - IPL - Online Literary Criticism Guide - a very useful web site for Literary Criticism. SEARCH TIPS: Click on this link for helpful search tips, including the use of Boolean operators, phrase searching and truncation. PERIODICALS: Literary magazines /Journals in COS Library: American Literature Explicator Journal of Popular Culture Literature Cavalcade (1966-My2005) Lyric Modern Fiction Studies New York Times Book Review PMLA Papers on Language and Literature Short Story International (1978-Fe1997) Studies in Short Fiction (Winter 1971-1999) Very interesting - reading/browsing/looking in older journals that portray a definite slant concerning man/woman, husband/wife roles, etc. Of course, these were published in the 1950's and 1960's, so keep in mind that there is a certain bias; remember, this is a bias and evaluate the material in terms of time, bias, etc. Some journals that may prove useful that COS owns: Ladies' Home Journal - Bound from Jan. 1954 to 2006; Redbook - Bound from May 1964 to 2006; Good Housekeeping - 1963 to current; Parents - Bound from 1948 to 1978. Bound copies are located on the 2nd floor. Current copies are located at the Periodicals Desk on the 1st floor.
For more information on Evaluating
Information Sources, see the course syllabus for Library 103, taught by Gina
Haycock, Faculty Librarian, who teaches this invaluable course; you can click on different links.
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