HIST 101 : Communities, Environments & Spatial Dynamics in Social History

Library Prize for Undergraduate Research

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:26:52 -0800

The Library Prize for Undergraduate Research recognizes excellence in undergraduate research projects that show evidence of significant inquiry using the library, its resources, and collections and learning about the research and information-gathering process itself.

Off-campus Access to Library Resources

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:26:52 -0800

Before you can access Library resources from off campus make sure you have configured your computer with proxy server settings.

After you make a one-time change in your web browser settings, the proxy server will ask you to log in with a CalNet ID or Library PIN when you click on the link to a licensed resource.

Staying Informed

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:13:16 -0800

The UC Berkeley History Collection News blog will keep you informed of new digital collections, trials of resources, workshops, events related to History collections, and other news of interest to researchers in History. Options for accessing the blog include:

Visiting the blog (History Librarian, Jennifer Dorner, posts a few times a week)
Subscribing to the RSS feed for the blog
Following Jennifer on Twitter at @ucbhistorylib

UCB Libraries

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:15:00 -0800

The library website is your gateway to research at UC Berkeley.

Library hours and maps
Types of resources
Over ten million volumes
Several dozen libraries

HathiTrust

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:57:49 -0700

HathiTrust (Hathi is pronounced hah-tee) is a partnership of libraries that works towards the goal of developing a shared digital access, preservation, and storage solution for the materials held in the member libraries. The contents of HathiTrust are similar to that of GoogleBooks, but the collecting focus is on scholarly materials and the resource includes content and features (such as indexing and manipulation of results) not available in Google Books.

Downloading PDFs

To limit to “full view” (public domain materials) in your search, check the “full view only” box.
From the “full view” of any item, click on Download whole book (PDF).
Click login.
Choose the University of California, Berkeley from the drop down list and click login.
Enter your CalNet ID and passphrase.
Click Download whole book (PDF).
PDF will load and you will choose to either open it or save it.

Tips for searching HathiTrust:

Phrase Searching: Use quotes to search an exact phrase: e.g., "occult fiction"
Wildcards: Use * or ? to search for alternate forms of a word. Use * to stand for several characters, and ? for a single character: e.g., optim* will find optimal, optimize or optimum; wom?n will find woman and women.
Boolean Searching: Use AND and OR between words to combine them with Boolean logic: e.g., (heart OR cardiac) AND surgery will find items about heart surgery or cardiac surgery.

Tips for doing a full-text search:

Phrase Searching: Use quotes to search an exact phrase: e.g., "occult fiction."
Multiple Term Searching: When your search terms are not quoted phrases, avoid common words (such as: 'a', 'and', 'of', 'the', etc.) to speed up your search.
Boolean Searching: Use AND and OR between words to combine them with Boolean logic: e.g., heart OR cardiac will find items containing the word heart or the word cardiac; heart AND cardiac will find items containing both words. Use a minus (-) to remove words from the result e.g., heart -cardiac will find items containing the word heart that do not include the word cardiac.

Creating Collections

On the Collections page, click on login.
Choose the University of California, Berkeley from the drop down list and click on login.
Enter your CalNet ID and passphrase.
Click on Create a New Collection and name your collection (the description is optional).
Indicate whether it is a "Private" or "Public" collection.
Click on Add.

In the future if you want to edit, change the private/public setting, or delete the collection, your collections will always be listed in the "My Collections" tab whenever you are logged in to HathiTrust.

Searching Library Catalogs

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:46:58 -0700

Use OskiCat to locate materials on the shelves of the UC Berkeley libraries and also to:

renew books online
find course reserves and to
place holds on items that are checked out.

Use Melvyl to locate materials at other campuses in the UC system, or worldwide, and also to

request materials from another library if we don't own it
find articles from some article databases
easily format a citation for copying into a bibliography

Google Books

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:26:53 -0800

Google Books contains millions of scanned books, from libraries and publishers worldwide. You can search the entire text of the books, view previews or "snippets" from books that are still in copyright, and read the full text of out-of-copyright (pre-1923) books. Want to read the entire text of an in-copyright book? Use Google Books' Find in a Library link to locate the book in a UC Berkeley library, or search OskiCat to see if UC Berkeley owns the book.

Why use Google Books?

Library catalogs (like OskiCat) don't search inside books; using a library catalog, you can search only information about the book (title, author, Library of Congress subject headings, etc.). Google Books will let you search inside books, which can be very useful for hard-to-find information. Try it now:

Find Dissertations

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:26:54 -0800

Find Dissertations by searching Dissertations and Theses (Dissertation Abstracts) Full Text, which indexes graduate dissertations from over 1,000 North American, and selected European, graduate schools and universities from 1861 to the present. Dissertations published since 1980 include brief abstracts written by the authors and some feature 24-page excerpts. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and some full text coverage for older graduate works.

Also see Find Dissertations and Theses for other specialized sources. Dissertations completed at UC Berkeley can be found in OskiCat, using the feature allowing you to limit to dissertations/theses:

Older dissertations not available full text may be obtained through Interlibrary Loan or using the "Request" option in Melvyl.

Library catalog history

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:24:14 -0800

Photo of card catalog index card by dfulmer on Flickr.

Getting Material from NRLF

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:40:13 -0800

A large part of the library's collection is stored off campus at the Northern Regional Library Facility [NRLF].

Use the REQUEST button in OskiCat to borrow material at the NRLF. To receive electronic or paper copies of book chapters or journal articles, submit an online request via the "Request an article from NRLF (photocopy or web delivery)" link that appears in eligible titles in OskiCat.

History Journal Articles

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:27:06 -0800

General Article Databases

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:14:41 -0800

A complete list of Library-licensed article databases is available at Find Articles.

Where's the PDF?

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:21:00 -0800

Once you've used an article database to find articles on your topic, you may need to use this button: to locate and read the full text of the article.

UC-eLinks will link you to the online full text of an article if UCB has paid for online access; otherwise, UC-eLinks will help you locate a print copy on the shelf in the library. If UCB doesn't own the article in print or online format, UC-eLinks can also help you order a copy from another library.

For more information, watch this video tutorial (about 4 min.)

You can also set up UC-eLinks to work with Google Scholar. For more information, watch this video tutorial (about 2 min.)

Maps and GIS

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:41:16 -0800

The Library subscribes to 30 different map collections. Some of the most useful are linked below.

The Earth Sciences & Map Library can help with questions about maps and GIS. The Data Lab in Doe can also assist with questions about using GIS data.

The UCB Geospatial Innovation Facility offers workshops (for a fee) to UC Berkeley students.

Historical Census Browser (University of Virginia)
Examine and map state and county statistics from historical volumes of the US Census of Population and Housing.

Searching OskiCat for Primary Sources

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:26:57 -0800

Certain words and phrases (part of the Library of Congress Subject Headings classification system) will find primary sources in library catalogs. You can use these in OskiCat or Melvyl:

-correspondence
-sources
-diaries
-personal narratives
-interviews
-speeches
-documents
-archives
-early works to 1800
-newspapers

Examples:

history victorian britain sources
women 19th century personal narratives

Primary Sources: America and beyond

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 15:18:08 -0800

This is a small sampling of digital collections available from the Library. For a complete list, go to Archival Collections and Primary Source Databases.

Primary sources and news

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 09:32:27 -0800

In addition to scholarly journals, the Library subscribes to a number of news and other primary source databases. A few that are focused on 20th century western newspapers are included below.

Primary Sources: California & the West

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:27:52 -0700

See also: UCB's Government Info page for more details on finding local, county and state records. There are a number of librarians available to help you unearth government documents.

The Bancroft Library

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:46:30 -0800

The Bancroft Library is one of the treasures of the campus, and one of the world's great libraries for the history of theAmerican West.

Some Bancroft materials are available online via Calisphere, which includes primary sources from many California libraries and museums.

Before you go:

1. Be prepared! Read secondary sources and know something about your topic.

2. Search OskiCat so you can bring call numbers with you. Use the Entire Collection pull-down menu in OskiCat to limit your search to the Bancroft Library only. (Remember that there are primary sources in many other campus libraries as well.)

If the item you want is in storage (the location is NRLF) and it's owned by The Bancroft Library, do not use the Request button in OskiCat. Instead, use the Bancroft's online request form at least 72 hours in advance (they prefer a week.)
If you have 72 hours in advance, you can also use the online request form for Bancroft materials that are not in storage; that will speed things up when you arrive.
If the OskiCat record mentions a finding aid (an index) to a manuscript collection, you should use it to help you find what you need in the collection. If the finding aid is online, there will be a link from the OskiCat record. The finding aids that are not online are near the Registration Desk at the Bancroft Library.

3. Learn about the Bancroft's policies: read about Access (bring a quarter for lockers) and Registration (bring two pieces of ID). You may want to read about the new camera policy ($10/day, no flash) or about getting photocopies.

Other Bay Area collections

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:26:13 -0800

Oakland History Room
African American Museum & Library, Oakland

San Francisco History Center

Citation Management Tools

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:26:57 -0800

Citation management tools help you manage your research, collect and cite sources, and create bibliographies in a variety of citation styles. Each one has its strengths and weaknesses, but any are easier than doing it by hand!

Zotero: A free plug-in that works exclusively with the Firefox browser: keeps copies of what you find on the web, permits tagging, notation, full text searching of your library of resources, works with Word, and has a free web backup service. A guide is available.
RefWorks - free for UC Berkeley users. It allows you to create your own database by importing references and using them for footnotes and bibliographies. Use the RefWorks New User Form to sign up. A guide is available.
EndNote: may be purchased from UC Berkeley's Software Central.

It's always good to double check the formatting -- sometimes the software doesn't get it quite right.

Chicago Manual of Style

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:26:57 -0800

The Chicago Manual of Style includes two slightly different documentation systems: (1) notes and bibliography (NB) and (2) author-date. The notes and bibliography style is preferred by many in literature, history, and the arts.

In the NB system, you mark within your paper where you have cited something by adding a number, which refers to a detailed reference either at the bottom of the page (footnote) or at the end of the paper (endnote). These notes indicate the specific place in your source you are referencing.

The bibliography includes complete information for each item, with the items arranged in alphabetical order by author's last name.

Purdue's Writing Lab provides an example of a paper formatted using Chicago NB style.

Ask a Librarian 24/7 Chat

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:26:58 -0800

Research Advisory Service

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:26:58 -0800

Research Advisory Service for Cal Undergraduates

Book a 30-minute appointment with a librarian who will help refine and focus research inquiries, identify useful online and print sources, and develop search strategies for humanities and social sciences topics (examples of research topics).

This service is for Cal undergraduates only. Graduate students and faculty should contact the library liaison to their department or program for specialized reference consultations.

Schedule a consultation with the History Librarian

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 15:17:05 -0800

Some reference questions can't be easily answered over e-mail and the History Librarian, Jennifer Dorner, is happy to talk with you in person or over the phone if your question is more complex or if you'd like a more in-depth consultation. Trying to schedule appointments via email is time-consuming. Here are some alternatives:

1. Call Jennifer at 510-768-7059

2. Use bCal to find Jennifer's calendar (dorner@berkeley.edu) and locate a free slot between 9-5, Mon-Fri. You can propose an appointment in bCal or contact her by email asking to reserve that slot for you.

3. If you don't use bCal yet and you have a gmail address, you can send that to Jennifer and she'll grant you access to her calendar.

A few questions to finish

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:24:17 -0800

Fill out this quick survey to finish up the class. thanks!