1. Senior Seminar I: Knowledge,
Practice, Power
Professor Tina Campt
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Librarian Jenna Freedman

2. Personal Librarian
Yes No (sorry!)
• Help you refine your topic
• Advise you on resources at the
Columbia libraries and around NYC
• Guide your research strategy
• Communicate with you by
appointment in person or by email or
IM/chat
• Discuss value of resources
• Support academic software like
Zotero and Courseworks and other
software, too.
• Give you buttons and other SWAG
• Fetch you stuff from the
library and hold it for you
indefinitely
• Proofread your bibliography
and fix all your citations
• Know what you and your
professor have discussed
• Provide bibliotherapy at
2am on a Saturday.
• Accept cash bribes (vegan
food offerings are
negotiable)
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3. What to do with a Citation
Alfred, Mary V. "Welfare Reform and Black
Women's Economic Development." Adult
Education Quarterly 57.4 (2007): 293-311.
Print.
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4. Keywords in CLIO
• Catalog vs. Find Articles
• Adjacency!
• Wildcards!
• FACETS!
• Texting catalog records!
(the exclamation points are all on purpose & warranted)
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5. databases - primarily articles, but
also e-books, dissertations, statistics
and other materials
Most of the same exciting (!) features we saw in
CLIO.
•Find Articles – searches multiple databases
simultaneously
•Gender Studies – specific focus
•ProQuest – range of resources: historical
newspapers, peer reviewed journals, alternative
press

6. 6
etc.
•Primary sources
•Web research
–Some tricks
–Evaluating resources
•Zotero
•Research Consultations

7. 6
etc.
•Primary sources
•Web research
–Some tricks
–Evaluating resources
•Zotero
•Research Consultations