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.
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.
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.
NARROW YOUR TOPIC
Key Words
•Use AND between key words to narrow your topics
Example: Searching just FOOD will bring up all entries that contain FOOD.
Searching FOOD and CULTURE will bring up only those entries on FOOD that deal with CULTURE.
If you search, FOOD and CULTURE and AMERICA the results will bring up only those entries that deal with all three variables--FOOD, CULTURE, and AMERICA.
•Also, you can use * to allow for all extensions of a Key Word.
Example: CULTUR* will bring up CULTURE, CULTURAL
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 OR you can limit your search to WOO ONLINE in the LOCATION box
•look at other option boxes, to further refine your results by language or year of publication.
There are many book resources available in WOO MAIN that will be useful for researching topics in this course. One title that you may want to look at is Food and Culture: a Reader. If WOO's copy is checked out, you can check out a copy from CONSORT or OHIOLINK.
You can go to the shelf to find the book under the CALL NUMBER WOO MAIN GT 2850.F64 219 and other books on the same topic will be shelved in the same area.
Also, whenever you find a book on your topic, you may want to look at assigned subject headings. If you look at Food and Culture: a Reader you will see the subject headings:
Food Habits
Food Social aspects
You may want to click on the subject heading to see what books are available in Wooster or other CONSORT libraries. Remember, you can move your search to OHIOLINK to view titles available for request from schools outside of CONSORT libraries.
There are also many e-book resources available. Titles that you might want to look at are:
Adventures in Eating: Anthropological Experiences of Dining From Around the World
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Chile peppers: a global history |
Collards [electronic resource] : a southern tradition from seed to table
Maize: origin, domestication, and its role in the development of culture
A rich and tantalizing brew: a history of how coffee connected the world
A Taste of Power: Food and American Identities
Some keywords to consider for this course:
•coffee
•chile
•chocolate
•collards
•corn
•food and culture
•food and popular culture
•food and society
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:
•CHOCOLATE
•COFFEE HISTORY
•COFFEE SOCIAL ASPECTS
•COLLARDS
•CORN HISTORY
•FOOD HABITS
•FOOD SOCIAL ASPECTS
•HOT PEPPERS
•HOT PEPPERS HISTORY