School of Information Management & Systems.   Fall 2003.
142   Access to American Cultural Heritages.   M. Buckland.

Assignment 8:   Searching Through the Library. Due Oct 15

This assignment follows up on Corliss Lee's October 6 presentation. Try using her handout. The Library's licensing agreements will allow you to do these searches freely from or through a campus computer. You can access those databases from home by typing in the student ID and CalNet passphrase (the same they use for Infobears) when asked for authentication.
    Write out hypothetical portfolio topic and think of at least two concepts that might be relevant to explore for your portfolio. Make a list of alternative terms for each concept, just as Corliss Lee's example "Identity of multi-racial Americans" includes two concepts: Identit(ies) / self-concept / [self]image / etc.; and multi-racial / interracical / mixed race / racially mixed / etc.
    Go to the University Library website at http://library.berkeley.edu/.
In the top right "Libraries and Collections" menu box go to "Doe/Moffitt Libraries" - library.berkeley.edu/doemoff/. Click on the "Find books, Articles, Etc" menu (in the bar neat top, center) to reach http://library.berkeley.edu/doemoff/find.html" and select "Articles". Scroll down and click on "General Article Databases", then scroll down and select "Expanded Academic ASAP" and do a search using "political art" as search terms in title, citation, abstract. Can you find an item entitled "To cheers of totalitarian art"? If so read it, since it is relevant to a future class meeting. Note the links to numerous additional materials after the end of the article.
    Now do another search in "Expanded Academic ASAP": Find something relevant to your hypothetical portfolio topic. Write down the search you used and, briefly, what you found -- in enough detail for someone else to be able to repeat the search and find it again.
    Go back to library.berkeley.edu/doemoff/, click on the "Find books, Articles, Etc" menu, select "Find Articles" again, but, this time, choose "News Article Databases" and click on "LexisNexisAcademic" web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/form/academic/s_guidednews.html. Find something on your topic. Write down a description of your search and cite what you found in sufficient detail for someone else to repeat the search and find it again.
    Go back to library.berkeley.edu/doemoff/ again. This time select "Subjects and Collections" then "Doe/Moffitt Subjects A-Z". Scroll down and select "Ethnic Studies". In the panel at the left select "Article Databases", then "Ethnic Studies Articles". Find "America: History and Life" http://serials.abc-clio.com/active/start?_appname=serials&initialdb=AHL and do a search using Keyword "Latino" and subject "Historiography". Pick any retrieved item. Is it available on paper on this campus? If so write down the name of the library and the call number of the book or journal. Is the text available online? If so, find it and give the URL. (Note the orange UC-eLinks button.)
    Go back to "Ethnic Studies Articles" select another index - If in doubt, try "Ethnic NewsWatch" - and do a search on your topic in an index of your choice. Supply brief details of database, search, and an item found.