Introduction to Literature: Library Resources

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Introduction to Literature: Library Resources Frederic Murray M.L.I.S. Instructional Services Librarian [email protected]

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Introduction to Literature: Library Resources

Frederic Murray M.L.I.S.Instructional Services [email protected]

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Wikipedia

Wiki: A Web application that allows users to add content to a collaborative hypertext Web resource (coauthoring), as in an Internet forum, and permits others to edit that content

(open editing).

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Wikipedia

• Jimmy Wales January 15, 2001• No Original Research• NPOV (Neutral point of view)• No owners, multiple anonymous

authors• Anyone with Internet access can

create or edit an entry…Anyone

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Wikipedia

• Contributors: male, English speaking, denizens of the Internet.

• Problem is not that it disregards the facts, but that it elevates them above all else.

• Most of the content is discussion/history of edits & not the entries themselves.

Rosenzweig, Roy. “Can History Be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the

Past.” The Journal of American History 93.1 (2006): 117-146.

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Wikipedia

• Participation maps popular, not academic concerns

• It is a working community…but is it a good historical resource?

• Lack of Critical Analysis• Problematic as a sole source of

information • Like all encyclopedias…ok to start,

terrible place to stop. • Benefits are to its active participants,

not its readers.

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Goals

• Highlight Background Resources

• Explore Three Literary Research Databases

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Background Resources

• One volume literary encyclopedia.

• Brief entries describing authors, books, characters, genres.

• R 803 B435 1996

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Background Resources

• Discusses and defines various literary terms.

• Provides a solid foundation for understanding terms common in the discussion of literature.

• R 803 H731h6

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Background Resources

• Bibliography of Literary Criticism 1st Floor Reference R

016.8 M272m

• Reference Guide to World Literature1st Floor Reference R 809 R259

• Dictionary of World Literature: Criticisms, Forms, and Technique

1st Floor Reference R 803 Sh6da

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Goals

• Look at Useful Print Resources

• Explore Three Literary Research Databases

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Literary Databases

• Lion: Literature Online Complete

• Literary Resource Center

• JSTOR

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LION: Literature Online Complete• This database

contains a full library of up-to-date, fully searchable criticism and reference resources.

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Literary Reference Center

• LRC is a completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books, major literary encyclopedias, reference works, and hundreds of literary journals.

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JSTOR

• JSTOR is a full-text scholarly journal archive. Searching is possible within each title and across the whole database.

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Goals

• Look at Useful Print Resources

• Explore Three Literary Research Databases

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Thank You !

Frederic Murray M.L.I.S. [email protected] 774 7113