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 POETRY just will bring up all entries that contain POETRY .
Searching POETRY and NATURE will bring up only those entries on POETRY that deal with NATURE.
If you search, POETRY and NATURE and WOMEN the results will bring up only those entries that deal with all three variables--POETRY, NATURE, WOMEN
•Also, you can use * to allow for all extensions of a Key Word.
Example:
Example: POET* will bring up POET, POETIC, POETICAL, POETICS, POETRY, POETS
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.
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:
•ANTI-WAR POETRY
•AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL POETRY
•BALLADS
•CHILDREN'S POETRY
•EPIC POETRY
•EXPERIMENTAL POETRY
•FEMINIST POETRY
•POETRY
•POETRY BLACK AUTHORS
•POETRY HISTORY AND CRITICISM
•POETRY MALE AUTHORS
•POETRY NATIVE AMERICAN
•POETRY PUBLIC OPINION
•POETRY SLAMS
•POETRY SOCIAL ASPECTS
•POETS
•POETS LAUREATE
•POLITICAL POETRY
•RELIGIOUS POETRY
•WAR POETRY
•WOMEN POETS
Some keywords to consider for this course:
•poetry
•poetry and [specific demographic]
•poets
•[individual names of poets]