Library Basics
The topic of the February 19 online workshop
What is Zotero?
According to your course guide, the two library homepage book search tools
What are Discover@MU and Catalog?
What's NOT in Proquest Historical Newspapers:
a) Chicago Tribune
b) St. Louis Post-Dispatch
c) Kansas City Star
What is Kansas City Star?
The reason for searching phrases in "quotation marks"
What is, to make sure the words are searched as a phrase, not separately
The Library Tool that's a browser extension for accessing library-paid content
What is Lean Library?
The database that covers the holdings of thousands of libraries throughout the world
What is Worldcat?
The database containing digitized archival records for the AIDS activist group ACT Up
What is Proquest Gender Studies (Proquest ONE Women's Studies also ok)
Two key problems generative AI has with sources
What are made-up sources and incorrect attribution of information (source doesn't say what AI says it does)?
The part of Ellis Library where you can record podcasts, use a 3D scanner, or play with VR
What is DMIL? (or Digital Media Lab)
The call number of the book called Japan's Infamous Unit 731
What is D810.B3 G65 2019 ?
In Proquest Statistical Insight, the number of search results in the Health and Vital Statistics subject area for measles
What is 5937?
The reason to use a search string like:
tetanus OR lockjaw
What is - both words describe the same illness (synonyms)?
Where you must make an appointment to view:
Pyretologia, Or, a History of Feavers ?
What is Special Collections / Ellis Library Special Collections?
In the Catalog interface: the number of books shelved in MU Ellis Library General Collection with the subject: Midwifery Early Sources To 1800
What is 2? (There are more we own as e-books.)
In JSTOR, the title of the first article when you search for witchcraft and medicine and limit results the the subject History
What is "Witchcraft and Medicine in Pre-Petrine Russia?"
The reason to search for a string like:
polio AND immigra*
What is, finding articles that include both polio and words that START with the stem immigra ?
The FLOOR of Ellis Library that is open past midnight
What is Ground Floor?
In a keyword search for "war propaganda" in the Catalog, the library with the MOST RECENT book
What is the MU Journalism Library?
In the Digital National Security Archive, the number of results for a search on mushrooms
What is 17?
To locate primary sources on a topic, use Advanced Search and add a word/phrase such as sources or early works or correspondence or personal narratives, and specify what field?