Answer the following questions by typing in responses below. You must reply to all of the prompts in bold type. On 23 January, bring one typed copy of this completed form to hand in to me. I strongly encourage you to ask for help at the library reference desk during any stage of this assignment. See the syllabus for more information about this assignment.

Leave yourself ample time to complete this assignment. Depending on your level of familiarity with the library’s resources, you may need as much as several hours to answer the questions.

Your name:
 

1. Navigating the on-line catalog and book stacks:

a. Using the library’s online catalog (use the telnet version), find one book each on the history of women in the following geographical areas. (I recommend using the subject keyword or title keyword search.) In the space provided, give the author, title, and call number of that book.

Africa:
Asia:
Latin America:
Eastern Europe/Russia:

b. Go back to the online telnet catalog listing for each of the books above. Type rw (for related works). The catalog will give you a list of subjects that that book addresses. Choose a subject that will tell you more about women in that region, and type the number. The catalog will list other books in the SU library that address that same subject. In some cases, your book will be the only book in SU’s collections on that subject. Among the four books you have listed, find at least one subject that is shared with other books in the collection. List one of those related works below. Also list the subject heading that connects the new book to one of the books listed above. (Note that only the telnet version of the catalog can perform the useful “related works” function.)

Book listed as a related work to one of the books above:
Subject heading the two books have in common:

c. Go to the stacks and look through each of the books you have listed above. Which chapter of which book would you be most interested in reading and why?

Book chapter I’d be most interested in reading:
Why:
 

2. Finding and ordering books from outside the SU library: Use WorldCat (linked from the SU library page, in the middle column under “Books, Etc.”) to find a book on women in Middle Eastern history. WorldCat is a composite catalog of most of the world’s scholarly libraries. This means that this database lists literally millions of books that are not available in Southwestern’s library.
       Choose one book from the list that your WorldCat search turns up, and click on it. Click on “libraries that own item.” Which libraries own this source? Is Southwestern one of them? Is the University of Texas at Austin one of them?
       Find a book that Southwestern does not have in its collections, and list its full reference below [Author Last Name, Author First Name, Title (Place: Publisher, Year)]. How would you obtain a copy of this book through the library if you needed to read it for a research project?

Full reference for a book on Middle Eastern women’s history that SU does not have in its collections:
How you would obtain a copy of this book through the SU library:
 

3. Finding periodical articles in and outside the SU library: Use Academic Search Premier (linked to the library main page under “General Indexes, Journals”) to find articles about women in Chinese, Japanese, or Indian history. (Find an article about women’s history, not about contemporary women.)
       Find one article that does not have the full text online, and that is in a periodical Southwestern does not have in its collections. List the full reference below [Author Last Name, Author First Name, “Article Title,” Journal Title vol. # (year): pages]. How would you obtain a copy of this article through the library if you needed to read it for a research project?
       Next, find an article that does not have the full text online, and that is in a periodical that Southwestern does have in its collections. Make a photocopy of the first page of that article, and staple it to this handout.

Full reference for article not contained in SU’s collections:
How you would obtain a copy of this article through the SU library:
Attach a photocopy of the first page of an article contained in SU’s collections.
 

4. Finding periodical articles online: Use at least one of the library’s online journal collections to find one article and one book review about women’s history. (The online journal collections can be accessed from the library’s main web page—look for the links toward the middle of the middle column. The most useful databases are likely to be JSTOR, Project Muse, and Ebsco Online—but I encourage you to try others.) At least one of the sources you list below should cover women outside Europe and the U.S. In the space below, list the full citation for the article and book review [Author Last Name, Author First Name, “Article Title,” Journal Title volume # (year): pages].

Article:
Book review:
 

5. Using the reference section: Using only resources in the reference section of the library, locate and photocopy a biographical entry on a 19th-century Latin American woman. Staple the photocopy to this handout. Also list the full reference (author, title, publication information, call number) of the source from which you photocopied the biographical entry.

Full reference for your reference source:
Attach a photocopy of the biographical entry.
 

6. Know your environment: Locate and visit the women’s studies alcove in the library. Describe below one of the items used to decorate the space.

Description of a decorative object in the women’s studies alcove:
 

7. Getting started on your position paper and Women in the Global Past project: List at least three sources that seem like they would be helpful for your position paper and Women in the Global Past project. Give full citations.

List of potentially useful sources: