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Print materials in the North Library
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What?
Task Definition
1. What is my research question?
2. What do I already know?
3. What information do I need?
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Where?
Search Plan
1. What type of information do I need? For example: general,
in depth, current, historical, biographical, issue oriented,
other?
2. Review suggested resources, circle ones that fit, prioritize
your list.
3. Evaluate resources for significance, accuracy, currency,
authority
Sample Book List
Books with unique perspectives
951.9042 Gra I remember Korea
973 Dav Don't know much about history
973 Loe Lies my teacher told me
Sample Reference Book List
Ref 301.0973 Enc Encyclopedia of American Social History
[3v]
Ref 305.4097 You The Young Oxford History of Women in the
United States [10v]
Ref 305.896 Gro The ABC-CLIO Companion to the Civil Rights
Movement
Ref 330.973 Dep Depression America (6v)
Ref 909 His History in Dispute (18v)
Ref 909.82 His History behind the headlines
Ref 909.8209 Col The Cold War, 1945-1991 (3v)
Ref 959.7043 Hil Vietnam War: Almanac
Ref 973 Ame American Decades (10v)
Ref 973 Har The Timetables of African-American History
Ref 973.003 Enc Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth
Century [4v]
Ref 973.9203 Sch The Cold War Culture
Special Collections
CQ Researcher Online
Series Titles
Series Title books cover various aspects of
U.S. History through a series of books.
Search the titles listed below in the Library catalog by refining
your search using the Series Titles designator.
• American War Library (14 titles)
• American War Series (7 titles)
• A Cultural History of the United States Through the Decades
(10 titles)
• Daily Life Through History (4 titles)
• History Firsthand (3 titles)
• In American History (18 titles)
• Presidents and Their Decisions (6 titles)
• World History Series (17) titles
• Turning Points (10 titles)
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How?
Location & Access
1. Jot down rich words that relate to your topic.
2. Check your words, change your words if your search fails.
3. Focus your search by looking for relationships between elements
in your research question.
Words to try for keyword or SUBJECT searching
the North Library catalog.
CIVIL RIGHTS
IRAQ-KUWAIT CONFLICT, 1990
IRAQ WAR, 2003
PURSIAN GULF WAR
MIDDLE EAST
TWENTIETH CENTURY
UNITED STATES--20TH CENTURY
VIETNAM
VITENAMESE CONFLICT, 1961-1975
WORLD WAR, 1914-1918
WORLD WAR, 1939-1945
1968? [Try just using the date you are interested in]
NINTEEN SIXTIES (Try spelling out the decade)
Search for primary sources using these keywords in the
North catalog.
conversations
letters
personal narratives
primary sources
voices
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Online materials
Library
Catalog
Find books fast!
North Library Online Databases
Easy access to current information from reliable , authoritative sources.
Home access passwords available from Mrs. Leeson
Cyberography
Selected Web sites
- American Cultural
History: the Twentieth Century
Cultural history [art, music, television, books, fashion and more] organized
by decade.
- 1960's through 1990's Flashback
Cultural history [art, music, television, books, fashion and more organized
by decades 1960-1990.]
- Multnomah
County Library, American History, 20th Century (1900's)
Index of megasites organized by decade and
topic.
- Multnomah
County Library, Wars and History
Index of war megasites.
- Multnomah
County Library, Cuban Missile Crisis
Index of Cuban Missile Crisis megasites
- American
Memory Today in History
Library of Congress searchable database for articles about major events
in U.S. History.
- American
Studies
Index of reliable American Studies sites on various historical topics.
Cyberography made available by Mrs. Leeson, Librarian
Citation
Maker
Helps you state exactly from where you got your ideas and information.
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