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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.
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Example: Searching just MAYA will bring up all entries that contain MAYA.
Searching MAYA and MYTHOLOGY will bring up only those entries on MAYA that deal with MYTHOLOGY.
If you search, MAYA and MYTHOLOGY and ART the results will bring up only those entries that deal with all three variables--MAYA, MYTHOLOGY, ART.
•Also, you can use * to allow for all extensions of a Key Word.
Example: MYTH* will bring up MYTH, MYTHOLOGY, MYTHS
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•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 The Maya apocalypse and its western roots. 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 F1435.3.C14R471 2022 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 The Maya apocalypse and its western roots you will see the subject headings:
TWO THOUSAND TWELVE, A.D.
MAYA CALENDAR
MAYA PHILOSOPHY
If you click on TWO THOUSAND TWELVE, A.D. you will also find the book The End of Time: The Maya Mystery of 2012 as an e-book.
There are many e-book resources available. Titles that you might want to look at are:
The Burden of the ancients: Maya ceremonies of world renewal fromt he Pre-Columbian Period to the present
The End of Time: The Maya Mystery of 2012
Materializing Ritual Practices
The Maya apocalypse and its western roots
The Maya World
Unseen Art
Some keywords to consider for this course:
•Maya and apocalypse
•Maya and art
•Maya and cultur*
•Maya and custom*
•Maya and narrative*
•Maya and rites*
•Maya and ritual*
•Maya and touris*
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:
•MAYA AGRICULTURE
•MAYA ART
•MAYA ASTRONOMY
•MAYAS
•MAYAS CIVILIZATION
•MAYAS ETHNIC IDENTITY
•MAYAS FIRST CONTACT WITH OTHER PEOPLES
•MAYAS FOLKLORE
•MAYAS FOOD
•MAYAS FUNERAL CUSTOMS AND RITES
•MAYAS HISTORY
•MAYAS IN LITERATURE
•MAYAS IN POPULAR CULTURE
•MAYAS INTELLECTUAL LIFE
•MAYAS MATERIAL CULTURE
•MAYAS MYTHOLOGY
•MAYAS ORIGIN
•MAYAS POETRY
•MAYAS RELIGION
•MAYAS SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS