A Library Instruction session for graduate students in French Studies

1. Library Research for French Studies Graduate Students Christy Sich, French Studies Librarian Marni Harrington, Linguistics Librarian October 28 th , 2008

2. Christy’s Literary Anecdote

3. Everything you ever wanted to know about the library…

5. Searching Overview Refine or expand the search. Define the question. Analyze the concepts. Create a logical search strategy using the available tools. Run the search & view the results.

8. Literature Criticism Online If off-campus, connect here first

13. 46 pages!

17. Defining Your Topic French writer, J.M.G Le Clézio recently won the nobel prize for literature…I think I will write about him…

18. Creating a Search Chart (class discussion) “ Mobility & Identity in the works of J.M.G. Le Clézio” …that sounds like a good topic

19. Christy’s Search Chart

23. Access MLA (live)

24. Searching MLA (live)

25. Hmm…3 results is not many…maybe I should broaden my results

26. Ah, 211 is more promising… How do I get this article?

29. Tracking Research Forwards & Backwards This is a good article… I should check the references…

30. Web of Science This looks perfect!

32. 8 possible references

36. Érudit

37. Érudit

39. Key Indexes NOT online yet

40. The Klapp DBW Reference Z2171 .B56

41. And now for a little more mathematics…

42. 29 references on Le Cl ézio in 1997 volume 10 references duplicated in MLA 29 – 10 = 19 19 x 10yrs = 190 That is an estimated additional 190 articles on Le Clézio not indexed by MLA…

43. Trusty Library Catalogue

44. Trusty Library Catalogue Western’s collection is really great, but what if I find a book in MLA that Western doesn’t have?

46. Accessing External Collections

47. RefWorks Login or create an account

55. Questions on the Board

56. Any other Questions? Thanks for coming 