R. Curt Rice, Instructor Student_______________________

This tutorial will familiarize you with the Library's webpage, catalog, and select print resources. It will also give you a jump-start on your annotated bibliography assignment. This assignment is worth 10 points. Please return it to the Reference Desk of the Library by Weds. Feb 6^th, 1 pm. 2 points/day will be deducted for work turned in after that. No work will be accepted after Fri Feb 8^th.

If you have any questions, please refer to the class research guide for HIST 17A [http://library.shastacollege.edu/americanhistory.htm ] or contact me:

Carolyn Salus Singh, Librarian, ph 225-4896, singh@library.shastacollege.edu

I. WEBCATalog provides author, title, and subject access to the more than 70,000 items that comprise the bricks and mortar collection of the Shasta College Library. Use this resource to locate an entire book or video on a topic.

Go to the library's webpage, http://library.shastacollege.edu, and click on WEBCATalog.

The Reserve Desk provides access to materials selected by an instructor for a course. These items are culled from both the instructor’s personal collection and the library stacks. To locate a reserve item, open WEBCATALOG then click on the Reserve Desk.

1. Enter Rice in the textbox and click on Instructor. How many courses has he placed on reserve?_____
2. What is the call number for volume 7 of the video series titled Biography of America? __________________


Suppose you are interested in the topic of Indian Treaties. Click on Search/Home. Enter indian treaties in the textbox. Click on Search.

3. How many items did you retrieve? _____
4. Examine the Full Details of the first book.


4-1) Give the call number for this book_______________

4-2) List 2 other subject headings that might prove helpful in researching this topic._____________________________________________

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5. Return to the list of books or search again for the book titled Indian treaties, 1778-1883. Examine the Full Details for the book

Power searching is useful to find videos on a topic. Go to the WEBCATalog welcome screen and click on the Or, Switch to Power Search button.

Enter indians in the first text box (it's labelled words or phrase).

Scroll down to type, click on VIDEOCASS, and click on the Search button.

1. How many videos did you find? _____


Examine the Full Details for #3.

2. Give the call #_________________ and title__________________

6-3) Do you think any of the 9 volumes of this series might discuss

treaties with North American Indians? _____yes _____no

If "yes", give the title of one: _________________________________________
 
 

Annotated Bibliography--Getting Started

In a few weeks, you will be writing an annotated bibliography that includes five resources. This highly selective list will be culled from a larger pool of materials that you’ve skimmed, evaluated, and either rejected or retained. Although you will be able to include some websites and journal articles in the final bibliography, this preliminary exercise is restricted to books and videos in the Shasta College collection. For this exercise, you are asked to research two topics. In a few weeks, you will select one of these topics for more in depth research.

Think of two topics that interest you. For each topic, list possible keywords or subject headings and search WEBCATalog to find:

1. At least two books—one should contain primary source material
2. One article from a reference book or specialized encyclopedia article
3. One video.

Topic 1: Keywords ___________________ ______________________

Topic 2: Keywords ___________________ ______________________