ESL0420 - Finding Information on a Current Public Figure

David Bezotte, Librarian (Room 203, dbezotte@mtu.edu, 487-3041) Website: www.lib.mtu.edu

 

For Assistance

         For online library tours, guides, maps, and tutorials, select Tours, Tutorials, and/or Maps on the Librarys website.

         For a copy of this guide and for lists of resources recommended for specific classes, select Course Guides.

         For individual assistance or instruction from a librarian, visit the Reference & Information desk on 2^nd floor, phone 487-2507, or use e-mail or instant messaging by clicking Ask a Librarian on the Librarys website.

 

Locating Books & Periodicals (Shelved by Library of Congress Classification System call number.)

Books are located on the Third Floor in the Main Collection.

Periodicals in are shelved by Library of Congress call number in these locations:

CURRENT JOURNALS (1^st Floor): Recent issues kept here until bound or reissued in microfilm/fiche.

SERIALS COLLECTION (Garden Level): Older volumes in print format.

MICROFICHE & MICROFILM AREA (2nd Floor, west): Older volumes on microfiche or microfilm.

Electronic journals are found under E-Journals on the Librarys web page. To determine whether or not the library owns a particular periodical, checking both the JRVP Online Catalog and E-Journals is recommended.

 

Interlibrary Loan (ILL) To request books and articles from other libraries, select Interlibrary Loan on the Library's website and log into ILLiad (Inter-Library Loan Internet Accessible Database). When using ILLiad for the first time, click on First Time Users to set up your account.

 

Reference Collection - 2^nd Floor Use to collect background information on an issue or start your research. The collection is arranged by subject using the Library of Congress Classification System (LCCS) call numbers. An outline of the system is available at http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html.

World Book Encyclopedia AE 5 .W55 2008 REF

Current Biography CT 100 .C9 REF

Europa World Year Book D 2 .E82 REF

 

JRVP Online Catalog - Contains records of materials owned by the MTU Library.Use the Location, Status, and Call Number information to find an item in the Library collections. To search for a periodical, search by Journal Title for the periodical title (sometimes called "Source"), rather than by article title or author.

 

Databases (Periodical & Newspaper Indexes)

To find citations to articles from journals, conference proceedings, and other publications, go to the Librarys website and select Databases. Select "Search by Subject Headings" to view databases grouped by subject. For example, you might choose News & Current Events to find indexes to news publications.

If you're viewing an article citation from a database and see the Husky Fetch symbol , click on it for options for locating the article. Most of these databases may be accessed by MTU students/faculty/staff from off-campus by entering your ISO/Husky Mail user ID and password.

 

Academic OneFile - The premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources with coverage of physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

Biography Index- Cites periodicals and books, including individual and collective biographies, and juvenile literature.

CQ Electronic Library (Online) - Definitive reference resource for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs. Includes CQ Researcher (1991-present; see H 35 .E2 REF for coverage back to 1959), CQ Weekly (1983-present), CQ Almanac (1941-present) and CQ Global Researcher (2007-present).

General OneFile - News and periodical articles on a wide range of topics.

InfoTrac Custom Newspapers - Collection of newspapers from around the country and the world.

LexisNexis Academic Wide range of business, legal, medical, and current affairs information. Newspaper coverage in full text.

NewsBank - The Detroit News, Grand Rapids Press, and Lansing State Journal and articles from news magazines in full text.

Readers Guide Abstracts Indexes/abstracts popular periodicals from the US and Canada for a wide variety of subjects.

Wilson Business Abstracts - Provides complete and accurate indexing and abstracting of 345 leading business magazines

WilsonSelectPlus Full text articles from over 1400 periodicals covering research in the Social Sciences, Humanities, Business, Education and General Sciences.

World News Digest (Facts on File) - Concise, comprehensive record of world events since 1940.