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JOMC 56 Class: Feature Writing
Val Lauder, Instructor
Fall Semester 2000
First Steps in Research
- Find your way to the UNC Davis Online Library Catalogs here
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- Try keyword searching in the UNC-CH Online Catalog here [Note: sample
searches on Larry King: books and articles]
- Explore the Virtual Reference Desk here
- The North Carolina Collection (UNC-CH Wilson Library) here
- Check out The Park Library services and collections here
- Academic Universe biographical references here
[Note: sample searches on Larry King: articles]
- World Biographical Index here
- Biographical search links here
North Carolina biographical links here [Note: NC newspaper
microfilm & newspaper clippings]
JoMC Halls of Fame biographical briefs here
Biographical collection links here
- Print/online sources for biographical data
Who's Who (look for
more in the online database catalog: fi ti biographical dictionaries
. . . in the Southeast
. . . in Finance and Industry
. . . Among Hispanic Americans
Contemporary Newsmakers
Contemporary Black Leaders
Current Biography
Gale's Biography Index
Almanac of American Politics
- Question authority! Ask a professor or a librarian
Basics of any Search
- Search Strategy Example
- Well-defined topic
- Clear question(s)
- Good keywords, search terms, subject headings (Library of Congress, ERIC, etc.)
- Sound search strategies
- Likely places to search
- catalogs (online and print)
- encyclopedias
- indexes
- bibliographies
- statistical, demographic sources (GIS)
- polling data sets (IRSS)
- map collections
- scholarly journals (Note: bibliographic access online is limited for the most part to
period after 1989; CARL UnCover and K-R's Dialog contain recent scholarly material from
wide range of resources. Nexis is a large, useful online database but it does not offer
access to scholarly journals. Lexis is the legal database and does offer access to
scholarly materials among many other law resources.
- monographs
- government records
- organizations' reports
- scholars specialty fields
- special collections (libraries and archives)
- original manuscripts, tapes, diaries
Bibliographic citations (AP, MLA, APA, Turabian, Legal, online)
Useful Web Links: general reference and fact finding
Useful Web Links: writing/interviewing links
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