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FYS Fighting Scots! - Welsch (Fall 2023): FINDING BOOKS

CONSORT

Search the CONSORT CATALOG for items held by CONSORT Libraries. Consort is a shared catalog for the following schools: The College of Wooster, Denison University, Kenyon College, and Ohio Wesleyan University. You can request books held in other CONSORT libraries directly through the CONSORT system.  They will be placed on hold for you at the Andrews Circulation Desk.

OhioLINK

Search the OhioLINK CATALOG for items held by OhioLINK Libraries. You can request books held in other OhioLINK libraries directly through the OhioLINK system. They will be placed on hold for you at the Andrews Circulation Desk.

Browsing the Collection

History materials are found in the following areas of the library:

Woo Reference

Woo Main

Woo Oversize

Woo Periodicals

History materials will be in the C (Auxilary Sciences of History), D (World History), E & F (History of the Americas) classification areas. Follow the link to see a detailed outline.

 

SEARCH STRATEGY

NARROW YOUR TOPIC

Key Words

•Use AND between key words to narrow your topics 

Example:  Searching just MASCOT will bring up all entries that contain MASCOT.  

Searching MASCOT AND SPORTS will bring up only those entries on MASCOT that deal with SPORTS.  

If you search MASCOT and SPORTS and NATIVE AMERICANS, the results will bring up only those entries that deal with all three variables--MASCOTS, SPORTS, and NATIVE AMERICANS.

•Also, you can use * to allow for all extensions of a Key Word.

Example: MASCOT* to bring up MASCOT or MASCOTS

 

By FORMAT, LANGUAGE, LOCATION, DATE OF PUBLICATION

•In CONSORT you can go to the top tool bar to MODIFY SEARCH

•if you are only want INTERNET RESOURCES, click on that option in the COMPUTER FILE box 

•Look at other option boxes, to further refine your results by language or year of publication.

LC Subject Headings

Books in the CONSORT and OhioLINK catalogs are assigned Library of Congress (LC)

Subject Headings. Here are some subject headings to consider for this course.

 

For Research on mascots:

INDIANS AS MASCOTS

MASCOTS

SPORTS TEAM MASCOTS

 

For Reseach on Scotland:

NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS, SCOTTISH

NATIONALISM--SCOTLAND

SCOTLAND--CIVILIZATION

SCOTLAND--HISTORY

SCOTLAND--IN POPULAR CULTURE

SCOTLAND--IN MOTION PICTURES

SCOTLAND--SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS

 

For Research on The College of Wooster History:

COLLEGE OF WOOSTER

COLLEGE OF WOOSTER--HISTORY