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Here are some reminders about how to locate the books, articles, and images you will need for your research. Having trouble? Send me an e-mail at pat.semple@montgomerycollege.edu.

NEWS FLASH, 2007 March 22: If you are accessing the databases and articles from off-campus or are planning to renew books online, note that after April 1 you will have to use your new College ID# to do so. Read more about The New College ID# & The Libraries.

Reminders: Go into MC Library Catalog. Remember to change the search engine setting to "Keyword Boolean" and create a search expression that consists of keywords (tend to be nouns), the Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT), and punctuation (parenthesis used with OR, quotations marks for phrases):

smithsonian

("native american" OR indian) AND culture

"george catlin"

holocaust AND history

"postal service"

Request Book From Another Campus: Go into MC Library Catalog and use the REQUEST ITEM button at the top of the page.

Renew Books Online: Go into MC Library Catalog and use the MY ACCOUNT button at the top of the page.

Help: Speak to the reference librarian on duty or call the reference desk:

Germantown: 240-567-7853

Rockville: 240-567-7130

Takoma Park Silver Spring: 240-567-1536

Here is the list of the books that are being held on reserve for you at the Rockville Campus Library.

Art References From xreferplus

A collection of art encyclopedias that have been put online.

Encyclopedia Britannica

In addition to the Encyclopedia Britannica, includes links to Web pages and selected articles.

History E-Book Project

Enter a simple phrase and do a keyword search: "postal service" or "george catlin"

Safari eBooks   (5-user limit)

1,482 full-text eBooks on technical topics in the fields of computers applications and computer science.

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ARTstor

Click LAUNCH button on right to search for images.

Semple: Digitized Images, Manuscripts, Books, Ephemera

Each of these links will take you to collections of images and text that can be used without fear of violating copyright.

Semple: Art & Artists

User, Beware! These sources are not free of copyright; you may link to the pages, but you may not copy the image onto your hard drive.

Academic Search Premier

Simply enter your search expression in the Find field; results can be sorted afterwards.

Expanded Academic ASAP

To generate a list that is ordered by Relevance, not Date, you will have to select Relevance Search before entering you search expression.

History Resource Center

The College's online database for students of history.

National Newspapers

Full text of New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Baltimore Sun.

SIRS Knowledge Source

Change radio button to Keyword/Natural Language before entering your search expression.

Searching: Results can be sorted by date or relevance. To print, use the button within the database. Here are some sample searches using keywords and Boolean operators:

holocaust AND (revisionist OR denial)

"native american" AND repatriation

"george catlin" AND influences

"pony express" NOT "book review"

museums AND curators

online AND exhibitions AND (art OR culture)

"web design" AND (issues OR trends)

Embedding Links: To create a hyperlink to an article in one of the databases, put the College's proxy server string in front of the document URL (sometimes given in the citation, sometimes taken from address bar in browser):

http://houdini.mc.cc.md.us:2048/login?url=

For more information, visit the library's page on Creating Persistent Links to Electronic Articles.

Limit Domains in Google: To limit your Google search to reputable Web sites, enter the domain you are interested in searching in front of your search terms:

site:edu     or     site:gov

    or     site:org

site:edu children AND holocaust AND (poetry OR writing)

site:gov "civil war" AND letters

site:org american AND (indian OR native) AND (culture OR tradition)

Smithsonian Institution

Look for the link to Exhibitions. Check out Visitor Information before heading down for the day. (Smithsonian Institution)

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For the correct MLA-style format of a work cited entry for an image from ARTstor, print out this page of examples.

The library has six-page handout on MLA citation style: MLA Citations: The Works Cited Page.

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