LIB 250: Humanities

Find a scholarly or professional association that is relevant to your major or minor, or your research topic.

Tell us:

• Where you looked.
• Your search strategy (terms you used, how you combined them into a search statement).
• The results you got.
• Whether you modified your search strategy, and if so, how.
• Any difficulties you encountered in your research.
• An MLA-style citation for the website of the association you found.

Find a reference source relevant to your research topic.

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• Where you looked.
• Your search strategy (terms you used, how you combined them into a search statement)
• The results you got.
• Whether you modified your search strategy, and if so, how.
• Any difficulties you encountered in your research.
• An MLA-style citation of the reference source you found.

Find a book in ZSR’s catalog that is relevant to your research topic.

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• Where you looked.
• Your search strategy (terms you used, how you combined them into a search statement)
• The results you got.
• Whether you modified your search strategy, and if so, how.
• Any difficulties you encountered in your research.
• An MLA-style citation of the book you found.

Find a resource in another library’s collection that is relevant to your research topic.

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• Where you looked.
• Your search strategy (terms you used, how you combined them into a search statement)
• The results you got.
• Whether you modified your search strategy, and if so, how.
• Any difficulties you encountered in your research.
• An MLA-style citation of the resource you found.

Find a database relevant to your research topic.

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• Where you looked.
• Any difficulties you encountered in your search.
• The title of the database you found.

In a scholarly database, locate a journal article relevant to your research topic.

Tell us:

• The database you used.
• Your search strategy (terms you used, how you combined them into a search statement)
• The results you got.
• Whether you modified your search strategy, and if so, how.
• Any difficulties you encountered in your research.
• An MLA-style citation of the article you found.

Find a library’s rare-books collection, or in an archive, that is relevant to your research topic.

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• Where you looked.
• Your search strategy (terms you used, how you combined them into a search statement)
• The results you got.
• Whether you modified your search strategy, and if so, how.
• Any difficulties you encountered in your research.
• An MLA-style citation for the collection’s website.

Find a primary source (e.g., diary, letters, contemporary magazine/newspaper article, art or manuscript reproduction, autobiographical material, interview, digital image or video/footage) that is relevant to your research topic.

Tell us:

• Where you looked.
• Your search strategy (terms you used, how you combined them into a search statement)
• The results you got.
• Whether you modified your search strategy, and if so, how.
• Any difficulties you encountered in your research.
• An MLA-style citation of the primary source you found.

Find a work of criticism (journal article, review, etc.) that is relevant to your research topic.

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• Where you looked.
• Your search strategy (terms you used, how you combined them into a search statement)
• The results you got.
• Whether you modified your search strategy, and if so, how.
• Any difficulties you encountered in your research.
• An MLA-style citation of the review/criticism you found.

Find a scholarly website relevant to your research topic.

Tell us:

• Where you looked.
• Your search strategy (terms you used, how you combined them into a search statement)
• The results you got.
• Whether you modified your search strategy, and if so, how.
• Any difficulties you encountered in your research.
• An MLA-style citation of the website you found.