ENGL 2322 @ NLC Library 

 

HANDOUTS

    Library Essentials Word PDF

    Using Online Databases Word PDF

    Literary Criticism Word PDF

 

Want books? Use:

ALAMO LIBRARY ONLINE CATALOG 

 

Print Books: 

A companion to medieval English literature and culture, c. 1350-c.1500

 

Daily life in medieval Europe

 

Family life in the Middle Ages

 

Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe - NLC Reference

 

Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity

 

Ebooks:

Events that changed Great Britain since 1689

 

A companion to Old and Middle English literature

 

Studies in the history of Old English literature

 

 

Want articles? Use:

ELECTRONIC DATABASES

   Databases by Subject -

          

     Literature

 

INTERNET SITES

     Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in 18 Volumes  

 

SEARCH STRATEGIES

• Boolean - AND, OR, NOT
• Field searching - Subject, Author, Title
• Quotation marks for exact phrase
• Truncation - root + variants (*) 
• Database Limiters: date, publication type, type, peer-reviewed, etc.

 

OPTIONS FOR FULL-TEXT - Where is the actual article???

•  PDF or HTML in database
• A to Z Online Journal Locator
• IDB & ILL

 

ACTIVITIES

Group Exercise

 

JUST FOR FUN

Search Smarter, Search Faster - YouTube Video

 

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Library Instructor(s):  Julie Nichols