The Reference Research Log
Professor Catherine Lavender
Reference Search Log
Although we often bypass the Reference Department when we go to the library to begin research, there are numerous works there which will serve us well.
Referring to On Research Logs (http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/researchlogging.html), you will produce a log which contains the following:
• A statement of the research question to be addressed;
• A listing of the hours and locations of the CSI Library and the most convenient two New York Public Branch Libraries (or the Main library and one branch library, if that is convenient to you);
• A list of key terms and ideas pertaining to your research question, as well as the Library of Congress subject designations for your topic;
• A log of print materials available regarding your topic in the Reference Departments of the CSI Library and the most convenient two New York Public Branch Libraries (or the Main library and one branch, if that is convenient to you) (This will require you to visit these two libraries and make a log of what you encounter there).
• A log of electronic reference materials available regarding your topic via the Electronic Resources page of the CSI Library (http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/eresource/). At the minumum, you must do complete searches of Ebsco Academic Search Premier; Infotrac Expanded Academic; Lexis/Nexis; Humanities Abstracts; Social Science Abstracts; Modern Language Association (MLA) Bibliography; America: History and Life; and Historical Abstracts. Provide a printed copy of your results for each search (but not of all the individual resources identified).
(Due October 16, 2001)
Prepared for HST 701--Historical Method and Historiography, the M.A. Program in History, The College of Staten Island of the City University of New York, Fall Semester 2001. Send email to lavender@postbox.csi.cuny.edu
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