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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?
- Select a World War II book to read.
- Review some of the print and online sites to select a topic
for your research paper.
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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
The brief list of books
that follows, shows some of the types of titles that cover various
aspects of World War II.
General
796.48 Bac The Nazi Olympics
811.5208 Poe Poets of World War II
940.53 Kal The war at home
940.5302 Mau Up Front
940.5426 Ant The bombing of Pearl Harbor in American History
940.5426 Ric The bombing of Pearl Harbor
940.5426 Ste World War II in the Pacific
940.5409 Ste World War II in Europe
940.5426 Bra Flags of our fathers:heroes of Iwo Jima
Weapons
940.54 Law The secret World War
II
940.54 Len American gunboats and minesweepers
940.54 Len British escorts ships
940.5449 She The making of the atom bomb
Leaders
921 Chu Churchill, the life triumphant
921 Eis Eisenhower, American hero
921 Hit Adolf Hitler (People who made history series)
940.53 Tay The War Lords
Ref 903 Wor Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations Vol 6
World Leaders
Holocaust
921 Sug A special fate: Chiune Sugihara,
hero of the Holocaust
921 Mei Lise Meitner: discoverer of nuclear fission
921 Jac I have lived a thousand years: growing up in the Holocaust
940.53 Gre The hidden children
940.53 Rei The upstairs room
940.5315 Mel Rescue: story of how Gentiles saved Jews
940.5318 Bac Tell them we remember
940.5318 Lev Darkness over Denmark: the Danish resistance
940.5318 Spi Maus: a survivor's tale
Japanese Internment
921Oku Citizen 13600
921 Kor Korematsu v. United States
940.53 Con Executive Order 9066
940.5308 Jap Japanese American Internment Camps
940.5315 Fre Japanese-American Internment in American History
940.5317 Opp Dear Miss Breed
940.5472 Arm Manzanar
940.5472 Hou Farewell to Manzanar
940.5472 Uch Desert Exile
808.8193 Hol Holocaust Poetry
Navajo Indians in World War II
940.53 McC Navajo Weapon: the Navajo
code talkers
940.53 Bix Winds of Freedom: the story of the Navajo
940.5403 Kaw Warriors: Navajo code
talkers
940.5403 Pau The Navajo code talkers
940.5486 Dur Unsung heroes of World
War II: story of the Navajo
Reference Books
Ref 973 Ame American Decades
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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.
Resource Tips from the Librarian
• Browse the books in the 940.53 and 940.54
• SIRS Online database has a great history component
• Don't overlook encyclopedias, both print and online
Words to try for keyword or SUBJECT searching
the North Library catalog.
ARTILLERY--HISTORY--20TH CENTURY
AIRPLANES, MILITARY
ATOMIC BOMB
BATTLES
CONCENTRATIONS CAMPS
CRYPTOGROPHY
CRYPTOGROPHERS
FIREARMS
HOLOCAUST
JAPANESE AMERICANS
JAPANESE AMERICANS--EVACUATION AND RELOCATION,
1942
JAPANESE AMERICANS--MASS INTERNMENT, 1942-1945
Manzanar
MILITARY WEAPONS
U.S. ARMY--EQUIPMENT
VETERANS
Warfare
WEAPONS
WORLD WAR, 1939-1945
WORLD WAR--PERSONAL NARRATIVES
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Online materials
Library
Catalog
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North Library Online Databases
Easy access to current information from reliable , authoritative sources.
Home access passwords available from Mrs. Leeson
Cyberography
Selected Web sites
Cyberography by N. Kendall and K. Leeson
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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