Your
Name___________________________
History 50
Name of your person___________________
due______
ASSIGNMENT TWO
FINDING
BACKGROUND INFORMATION, PRIMARY SOURCES &
STATISTICS
PART I : USING ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND DICTIONARIES FOR
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
1. In the second floor King Library
Reference Books section, find:
the Dictionary of American History (E
174 D52 2003) ,
the Encyclopedia of American History (E
174 E52 1996) and
he Encyclopedia of American Social
History (HN 57 E58 1993).
2. Compare the three reference
sources. What type of information
did each source provide? Give
specific examples of information from each source.
Attach a typed one page, double spaced
response (no more than one paragraph on each source) to this sheet when you turn
in the assignment.
PART II: FINDING BOOKS ON THE PROGRESSIVE
ERA
1. From the Library homepage
[http://www.sjlibrary.org], click on Library Catalog on the left
menu.
Select:
Keyword
Then type: progressive era
2. Use the mouse to click on the “Go”
3. To view the full information for the
first title, use the mouse to click on the first highlighted
title.
Write down two SUBJECT
headings assigned to this book:
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4. Use the mouse to click on the second
subject heading.
5. Wait until the next screen appears,
scroll down to the middle of the page, then click
on:
Progressivism
How many titles did you find?
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6. When the next screen appears,
click on the “Limit/Sort Search”
box.
7. When the next screen appears, in
the box to the right of “Year of
publication: After” type: 1990
(this will limit your search to items published
after 1990)
8. Then use the mouse to click on the
bar “Limit/sort items retrieved using
above data.”
How many titles did you
find? ________
9. As you browse through the list of titles
you have retrieved, write down the
complete
title, location, and call number of a book about
progressivism in
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Location: _________________________
Call Number:
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10. Continue browsing through the titles you
have retrieved. Click on titles
that look promising. Write down
four of the subject headings assigned to the different books that you think you
might be able to use to expand your search to find additional books with
information related to your person:
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11. Click on the box that says "Start Over."
Select: Subject, then
type:
progressivism
When the next screen appears, find a
dictionary for the progressive era.
Write down the complete title, location and
call number:
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Location: _________________________
Call Number:
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Click on the call number of the dictionary
that you found. When the next
screen appears, look at the list you got.
What do all of these titles have in common?
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12. Click on the box that says
"Start Over."
Select: Keyword then
type:
progressivism
sources
You should get 5 titles. Examine the full records for each title
by clicking on the titles. Only 4
of the titles actually contain primary source materials. List the 4 titles and their call
numbers:
(1)
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Location: _______________
Call Number:________________________
(2)
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Location: ___________
Call Number: _________________________
(3)
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Location: ____________
Call Number:___________________
(4)
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Location: ____________
Call Number:___________________
PART III: LOCATING BOOKS WRITTEN BY PEOPLE
FROM THE
PROGRESSIVE ERA
1. Using the last name of your
person, find books by your person in the Library Catalog. On the main catalog screen,
select:
Author
Type the name of the person (with the surname first), for
example:
Sinclair,
2. Use the guide sheet called "Cite Your Sources," and for three
titles, write down the information on the author,
title, place of publication, publisher, and date that you will need to include
the work in a bibliography. Also
write down the location and call number.
If you find fewer than three titles, write down all that you
find.
(1)
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Location: ________________
Call Number:__________________
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(2)
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Location: __________________
Call Number:________________
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(3)
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Location: ________________
Call Number:___________________
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PART IV: USING CENSUS
MATERIALS
1. In the second floor King Library Reference
Books section, find Historical
Statistics of the United States (HA 202 B87 1975). Use the Subject Index in the back of
Volume 2 and locate page references on topics related to your person. Using the page references find actual
statistics for 1900-1920.
Search the United States Historical Census Data
Browser [http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/]
for 1900, 1910, and 1920 on one topic most closely related to your person. Write down the topics and the statistics
that you found in both sources.
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2. During these
decades how did society change (based on the statistics you
recorded)?
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