In Ellis Library
News and Periodicals
Primary Source Collections
From AI to Zotero
Search for Nerds
100

The number of study rooms on the 2nd floor of Ellis Library

What is 9?

100

The city for which we have a database of all its Times newspaper issues from 1785 to 2014

What is London?

100

The database with oral histories of U.S. soldiers in World War II

What is America In World War II?

100

The name of the app, word processor plugin, and browser plugin that can help organize your sources and cite them accurately in many formats

What is Zotero?

100

Two words that will be found in your results if you search Discover@MU for nationalis*

What are (any of these):
nationalist
nationalists
nationalism
nationalistic

(but NOT: nation, nations, national)

200

Starting at this time, you must show your MU ID to enter Ellis Library.

What is midnight / 12:00 AM?

200

This database contains searchable full text for nearly 500 British periodicals from the 1600s to the early 20th century

What is British Periodicals?

200

The database you'd use when writing about the British colonies in Jamaica.

What is Colonial Caribbean?

200

The name of the website and word processor plugin Mizzou is piloting now, that will help you find current-day articles on the topic you're writing about

What is Keenious?

200

The reason for searching "English Civil War" instead of English Civil War in Discover@MU

What is "to search for those words together and in that exact order" or "to search those words as a phrase"?

300

The new tool focused on exploring the PRINT book collections on this campus and other UM campuses

What is "Catalog?" ("Libcat" or "Vufind" are also acceptable)

300

The "Collection" that appears at the top of search results when you search British Pathe for world war ii

What is "World War II in France?"

300

One of the most important search filters, limits, or refinements for historians, in almost any database

What is date (or year)?

300

The name of the browser plugin that will let you know if there's free or MU-funded access to the book/article you're looking at online

What is Lean Library?

300

In Discover@MU, adding this subject-heading word to this search will find primary sources such as government documents:

war AND Italy AND SU ___________

What is SOURCES?

400

Most books with a call number starting with D, DA, DC, DD, etc. can be found on this floor.

What is 3 East?

400

From JSTOR's Advanced Search, the number of articles with totalitarianism in the title, published between 1939 and 1945 and classified as "items I can access"

What is 12?

400

The number of MU campus libraries that have an external CD/DVD drive you can use to play DVDs

What is 4?

400

The area in which generative AI is strongest and the one in which it is weakest, according to your course guide

What are language/rhetoric and facts/sources?

400

The thing that makes a subject search different from a keyword search

What is standardized, librarian-assigned terminology meant to capture the main subject of a work (anything close to this is acceptable)
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