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Mary Livermore Library
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Mythology
Exercise
Read each
section carefully. Do each task printed
in italics. Be prepared to talk about what you have found
and how you found it.
A. Defining your topic.
1. Explain
in one or two sentences the topic you have chosen for your paper.
Be as
specific as possible.
2. Write
down two or three words or phrases that describe or relate to your topic.
B. Finding background information: general
and subject encyclopedias.
1. Find
two articles on your topic: one in a general encyclopedia (World Book, Encyclopaedia
Britannica, etc) and one in a subject reference work (encyclopedia, dictionary,
handbook, etc.)
2. Examine
the two articles. Consider length,
depth, amount of detail, and the extensiveness of the bibliographies at the end
of the articles.
3. Record
the information about the encyclopedia articles including the author (if given), title
of the article or section, title of the encyclopedia, volume and page numbers.
C. Finding subject headings: Library
of Congress Subject Headings.
1. Using
the subject words you have found in your background search, find several
headings for your topic.
2. List
one or two of the Library of Congress subject headings terms that describe your
topic.
3. List
any “see” references, as well as “Broader Term (BT),” “Narrower Term (NT),” or “Related
Term (RT)” references, if there are any.
If there are none, make a note of that.
D. Finding books: BraveCat (UNCP’s
online catalog)
1. Use
the keywords or the subject term(s) you found in
step C.
2. To
search, click on the button that indicates the type of search you want to do,
then type the words, titles, etc., and click Search or Submit
Search. Click on the colored
underlined text corresponding to the information you want and the computer will
display the item information for you.
3. Write
down the author, title, call number, and location code of at least two books on
the subject.
E. Finding journal articles: periodical
indexes (online and print)
1. Search
one of the electronic resources (not BraveCat)
listed on your bibliography.
2. Write
down the number of records you found on your topic.
3. Print
out a citation on your topic and attach the printout to this worksheet.
4. Find
a citation on your topic in a print index.
Use indexes such as Art Index, Psychological
Abstracts (pre-1987), Essay and General Literature
Index, Humanities Index
(pre-1984), or Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature
(pre-1982). This must be a
different citation than the one you located E.1.
5. If
your citation is for a journal, use Journal Finder to see if the
Library provides access to this journal in an electronic format or if it is
available in print in the Library.
6. If
your citation is for a book, check BraveCat to see if the Library
owns the book.
7.
Find the article or book chapter for your citation from a print
index. Make a copy of the first page of
the item and attach it to this worksheet.
F.
Finding Web resources
1.
Search one of
the Web resources listed in the Web
Resources portion of the “Selected Resources for Mythology” handout. Do not use Wikipedia alone.
2. Find
information about your topic.
3. Write down the name of the resource used from the Web Resources portion. Write down the name and the URL of the
resource with the information on your topic.
Make a copy of the first page of information about your topic and attach
it to this worksheet.
Revised 10/06 jes