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ENG118: Mixing Memory & Desire in the Library Spring 2008 - M. Bagg
reference contact: Bruce Sajdak x2967

Background on a Writer | Books By & About Your Writer | Book Reviews | Critical Articles
Cite Sources | Research Skills Quiz | Give Feedback

FINDING BACKGROUND ON A WRITER

Reference Sources Call Number/Access
American National Biography click here
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

click here

Biography Resource Center click here
Dictionary of Literary Biography ref PN 451 .D53
Encyclopedia of Women's Autobiography ref HQ 1185 .E63 2005

FINDING BOOKS BY & ABOUT YOUR WRITER

Use the Five College Library Catalog to look for your author. Use SUBJECT BEGINS WITH, looking for names of authors followed by words such as BIOGRAPHY or CORRESPONDENCE or DIARIES.

FINDING BOOK REVIEWS

Look in some of the following places for book reviews published around the time of your memoir's publication:

Online Source Access
Book Review Digest (1983+) click here
Book Review Digest Retrospective (1904-1983) click here
Book Review Index (1965+) ref Z 1035 .A1 B62
Humanities Abstracts (1983+) click here
New York Times Historical (1865+) click here

Times Literary Supplement (1994+)

click here
Times Literary Supplement (print ed.) 1990-2001 Neilson, Level 2 South
per AP 4 .T45
Times Literary Supplement Archive (1902-1990) click here
New York Review of Books (1978+) click here

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
(coverage varies by newspaper or magazine title)
To find reviews, first click on the red NEWS tab, then to the right of Select Sources use the drop down menu to click on "Book, Movie, Music, Play, and Video Reviews"

click here

FINDING CRITICAL ARTICLES ABOUT YOUR MEMORIST

Academic Search Premier (1965+)

Humanities Abstracts (1983+)

Humanities International Index

MLA Bibliography (1926+)

CITE YOUR SOURCES

For guidance on citing sources correctly visit the Libraries' Style Manuals page. See especially links to MLA (Modern Language Association of America) style. See how to get to Citation Help

TAKE THE TWO REQUIRED QUIZZES

Please connect to Moodle and log into the Research Skills for Students class. Please take the two brief quizzes on Research Skills and the Plagiarism Challenge. (If you wish you may take these as many times as you like to get a perfect score).

WHAT DID YOU THINK ABOUT THIS LIBRARY CLASS?

Let us know your thoughts. Please fill out the brief Feedback Form.

CONTACT THE REFERENCE LIBRARIAN

Contact Bruce Sajdak, the instructor for your library session: bsajdak@email.smith.edu

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