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FYS - Representing the Past and Reflections on the Present - P. Frese (Fall 2024): 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 ARCHAEOLOGY will bring up all entries that contain ARCHAEOLOGY.  

Searching ARCHAEOLOGY and ETHICAL ASPECTS will bring up only those entries on ARCHAEOLOGY that deal with ETHICAL ASPECTS.  

If you search , ARCHAEOLOGY and ETHICAL ASPECTS and MUSEUMS the results will bring up only those entries that deal with all three variables--ARCHAEOLOGY, ETHICAL ASPECTS, MUSEUMS.

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

Example: ETHIC* will bring up ETHIC, ETHICAL, ETHICS

Example: MUSEUM* will bring up MUSEUM, MUSEUM STUDIES, MUSEUMS

 

 

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.

EXAMPLE--BOOK RESOURCES (PRINT AND E-BOOK)

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 Who Owns Objects.  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  CC135.W48 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 Who Owns Objects you will see the subject headings:

CULTURAL PROPERTY PROTECTION

CULTURAL PROPERTY REPATRIATION

EXCAVATIONS (ARCHAEOLOGY) MORAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS

ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEFTS

MUSEUMS ACQUISITIONS

You may want to click on subject headings  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:

The Futures of Our Pasts: Ethical Implications of Collecting Antiquities in the Twenty-First Century

Negotiating Culture: Heritage, Ownership, and Intellectual Property

Repatriation and Erasing the Past

Whose Culture?: The Promise of Museums and the Debate Over Antiquities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keywords

Some keywords to consider for this course:

•archaeology and ethic*

•archaeology and moral*

•artifact* and ethic*

•artifact* and moral*

•cultural property

•museum* and ethic*

•museum* and moral*

 

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:

•ANTHROPOLOGICAL ETHICS

•ANTIQUITIES COLLECTION AND PRESERVATION MORAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS

•ARCHAEOLOGY MORAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS

•ARCHAEOLOGY POLITICAL ASPECTS

•CULTURAL PROPERTY POLITICAL ASPECTS

•CULTURAL PROPERTY MORAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS

•CULTURAL PROPERTY PROTECTION

•CULTURAL PROPERTY REPATRIATION

•EXCAVATIONS (ARCHAEOLOGY) MORAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS

•HISTORIC PRESERVATION SOCIAL ASPECTS

•HUMAN REMAINS (ARCHAEOLOGY)

•HUMAN REMAINS (ARCHAEOLOGY) REPATRIATION

•INDIGENOUS PEOPLES ANTIQUITIES COLLECTION AND PRESERVATION

•MUSEUMS COLLECTION MANAGEMENT POLITICAL ASPECTS

•MUSEUMS COLLECTION MANAGEMENT MORAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS