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Searching OSU Catalog
by Title, Author, Author/Title, Subject, Keyword (Word), and others such as call number.
• Subject Searching: finds materials about a particular topic. They are usually based on subject headings that are standard terms assigned by indexers, librarians, or authors.
• Keyword Searching: allows you to search anywhere in the catalog's list of records for the words you enter. It will search titles, authors, subject headings, and more.
Example Subject Search:
Enter “Slavery”in search box
- Results: 277 titles
- Click on the term “Slavery”
- See record 11: Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic world, 1400-1680
- Click on that title.
- The full record, meaning all of the information about the book, is displayed.
- There are two copies of the book owned by Ohio State Libraries. One is checked out. One is available.
- Click the RED tab at the top of the page that says, “REQUEST this item”
- Fill in information requested: name, numerical identification, choose PICK UP LOCATION (ATI) and submit.
- You will be sent an email when the book has arrived at the ATI Library telling you to pick it up at the circulation desk.
- This book can be checked out for 3 weeks and renewed if not requested by someone else.
Go back to results for the subject search “Slavery”:
- See record 12: Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic world, 1400-1800
- Click on that title
- There are two copies of the book owned by Ohio State Libraries. Neither one is available.
- Click on the tab with the BLUE strip at the top of the page that says, “OhioLINK Catalog”
- See a page that says, “21 OhioLINK libraries have this item”
- Click this link
- See that there are available copies.
- Click REQUEST THIS ITEM
- From the Drop-Down Menu, select Ohio State University, and click “Submit”
- Fill in information requested: name, numerical identification, choose PICK UP LOCATION (ATI) and submit.
- You will be sent an email when the book has arrived at the ATI Library telling you to pick it up at the circulation desk.
- This book can be checked out for 3 weeks and renewed if not requested by someone else.
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Primary and Secondary Sources of Information
Primary vs. Secondary Sources for examples of primary and secondary sources: http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/infosrv/lue/primary.html
Example: ARTstor OhioLINK digital art collection database
- Click “Collections,” “Image Gallery,” “The Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection.” On Page 2 see “The Gulf Stream” by Winslow Homer.
- Artwork is Primary source
- Commentary is Secondary source
OSU Libraries History Research Overview
- Click Primary Sources to find links to “Oral traditions and histories” and “Visual documents and artifacts.”
The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute
- See Site Map for examples of primary and secondary sources
Abraham Lincoln Papers of the Library of Congress:
Series 3 General Correspondence. 1837-1897.
From May 23, 1862 to May 17, 1897
Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, January 01, 1863 (Final Emancipation Proclamation, Official Copy) (#11)
See Image 7 Handwritten copy of the Emancipation Proclamation
OhioLINK Digital Media Center
- Click on “Oral Histories of the 1970 Kent State Shootings”
Click on Historic & Archival Digital Media database
OSU History Databases
Many primary historical sources such as:
American Periodical Series, 1740-1900 [Selected Articles in Full Text]
Eighteenth Century Collections Online [Selected Articles in Full Text]
North American Women's Letters and Diaries [Selected Articles in Full Text]
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