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Library Info Skills

Michelle Ward, September 2006Okanagan College Penticton, Librarywww.okanagan.bc.ca/library

Getting Started !Defining your topic, approachIdentifying keywordsMargaret Laurence Stone Angel

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Next step! Library Websitewww.okanagan.bc.ca/library

Searching Library CatalogueLibrary CatalogueOC WebpageLibrary Webpage

Searching Library CatalogueVoyager main page Course Reserve search

Searching Library CatalogueReserve search resultsClick on these linksFor more on the subject

Searching Library CatalogueKeyword Relevance Search

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Critical material on an author of a literary work! authors family name first! look for handy sub-headings, to aspects such as biography, characters, criticism, outlines, title of specific work

Discussion of literary genres, periods, themesWomen novelists, Canadian - 20th centuryTheater England History 16th , 17th centuryTragedy

Searching Library CatalogueLocations & Status:

! watch for Penticton Circulating Multiple locations Reference Reserve Desk

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Reference sets for Literature

Use Gale Literary Index [online]

Dictionary of Literary Biography [online]

Gale Literary Criticism reference sets [online & print]

Contemporary Literary Criticism Ref PN771.C59Shakespearean Criticism Ref PR2965.S43Shakespeare for Students Ref PR2987.S47www.okanagan.bc.ca/library

Reference sets for LiteratureSearch in Article Databases for Humanities

Reference sets for LiteratureGale Literary Index

Reference sets for LiteratureOn Reference Shelves in the Library

Need more

Back to Library Website !www.okanagan.bc.ca/library Find ArticlesHumanities Online Resources Gale Literary databases Academic Search Premier CBCA Full-Text Reference MLA International Bibliography Humanities Index

! try out all those keywords, try different combinations! watch for full-text and Where can I get this ?

Acknowledge & Cite !

Keep Records of your Sources References

AuthorsBook & chapter Titles, Video TitlesPublishers/Producers, Place & Date of PublicationArticle titles, newspaper/magazine/journal titlesVolume, Issue & Page numbers

Plus for internet sites Retrieval datesLibrary Database namesWebsite urlsWebsite titles, authoring responsibilities

Acknowledge & Cite !MLA StyleStyle Guides

MLA StyleBook

Peck, John and Martin Coyle. How to Study a Shakespeare Play. 2nd ed. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave, 1995.

Chapter in a Book

Bertz, Doug. Some Notes on the Stone Angel. Challenging Territory: the Writing of Margaret Laurence. Ed. Christian Riegel. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1997. 170-178.

MLA StyleJournal ArticleWoodcock, George. Many Solitudes: The Travel Writings of Margaret Laurence. Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d'etudes canadiennes 13.3 (1978): 3-12.

When Article is retrieved from a Library DatabaseAdd : name of Library database accessed and the online subscription service, name of Library, city where Library is located and date retrieved

Contemporary Literary Criticism-Select. Gale. Okanagan College Lib,, Penticton. 27 Sept. 2006.

Info Skills Replay ! listing Keywords

searching Library Catalogue

checking Reference books (print/online)

finding Articles on databases

recording References

using MLA style

Need help ?Ask Us ! Come to Library Reference DeskLibrarians Anne Cossentine, Michelle WardAsk Us (reference help)From library webpage