Research guides: Arts 140: Canadian Race, Gender, and Migration: Finding & discerning resources

Omni, the Library's catalogue

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Top three search strategies
This infographic shows you how "quotation marks" and wild card (?) and truncation (*) symbols can make a big difference in the results you retrieve.

Arts 140: Library session (1)
Finding and discerning resources

Libraries and the research process
Finding and evaluating information in the academic context
- Activity: Article A vs article B
- Activity: Find your book in the stacks

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Libraries and the research process

Determine its purpose, intended audience, format, and length.

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Start with Wikipedia or check these reference works.

It should provide boundaries so that when you gather sources you focus only on information that helps to answer your question.

Try using a concept map (see example at the bottom of this section)*. It can help you brainstorm and identify relationships.

The Library catalogue.
See what print and electronic books, articles, and reports are available to you.

Ask: What have I here? Do I want to use it? If yes, in what way, to what end?

Are libraries neutral?

Language of Cataloguing Deconstructing and Decolonizing Systems of Organization in Libraries
"illegal aliens"
[...] after some debate [...] the Library of Congress agreed to replace the term with “noncitizen” and“unauthorized immigration” . The term “illegal alien” would be cross-referenced with the new terms [...] However, Republican lawmakers introduced provision HR 4926, named the “Stopping Partisan Policy at the Library of Congress Act,” i[...] This provision, which was passed on June 10, 2016, required the Library of Congress to keep “illegal alien” as a subject heading (Peet, 2016).