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Selecting a topic: Suggested Print Reference Sources, Gorgas Library, Reference Collection, 1st Floor
- American Eras. Call number: REF E 169.1 A471979 1997, vol. 1-8
- American Decades. Call number: REF E 169.12 A419 1994, vol. 1-10
- St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture. Call number:REF E 169.1 S764 2000, vol. 1-4
- Encyclopedia of Advertising. Call number: REF HF 5803 A38 2003, vols. 1-3
- Encyclopedia of Communication and Information. Call number: REF P 87.5 E53 2002, vol. 1-3
- History of Mass Media in the United States. Call number: REF P 92 U5 H55 1998
- Encyclopedia of Television. Call number: REF PN 1992.18 E53 2004, vol. 1-4
- International Dictionary of Films and Filmmaker. Call number: REF PN 1997.8 I58 1997
- Encyclopedia of Radio. Call number: REF TK 6544 M84 2004, vol. 1-3
- Encyclopedia of Photography. Call number: REF TR 9 I24 1984
Identifying Primary Resources: Primary resources can be eyewitness accounts, personal narratives, diaries, books, photographs or other graphic images (including advertisements, posters and political cartoons), public opinion polls, census or other statistical data collected or published during the time period. Reprints, microfilm or facsimile editions of original works can also be used.
Locating Primary Resources: Using Library Databases of Articles and Images: Use the full text databases listed below for html or digitized versions of primary resource documents. Access databases from: http://www.lib.ua.edu.
Accessible Archives Jstor African American History and Culture Nineteenth Century Masterfile American Periodicals Series Online North American Women’s Letters and Diaries Evans Digital ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Locating Primary Resources: Using Library Database Indexes: Use the database indexes listed below for citations to primary resource material. Access databases from: http://www.lib.ua.edu.
Readers’ Guide Retrospective Poole’s Plus To locate the articles from the indexes, search the Libraries' Catalog, using the name of the journal title (not article title) from the citation. Some older issues of journals are on Floor 4M of Gorgas Library. Some are stored in the Library Annex.
Locating Primary Resources: Using the Libraries' Catalog: Search the Libraries' Catalog to locate books published during the desired time period. The publication date of the book appears in the last column of the search display. Search results can also be limited by using the “limits” available through the Advance Search. Some older books are stored in the Library Annex.
For information on requesting items from the Annex
http://www.lib.ua.edu/annex/request.htm
Locating Books and Journals: Suggested Subject Search Terms: Libraries Catalog :
Advertising History, Graphic Design History, Graphic Arts, Commercial Art, Printing History
Motion Picture History, Documentary Films, Communism and Motion Pictures, Blacklisting of Entertainers, Motion Pictures Political Aspects
Women’s Periodicals English, Women’s Periodicals American, Publishers and Publishing
Video Games, Video Games History, Video Games Social Aspects
Music Printing, Popular Music, Music Title Pages, Popular Music Writing and Publishing
Locating Primary Resources: Using websites: The websites listed below include explanatory text, digitized versions of ads, posters, photographs, documents and articles from 1850 – forward and additional links.
Ad*Access Project, Duke University
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccessAdvertising Archives
http://www.advertisingarchives.co.ukAmerican Memory Project, Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.govDocumenting the American South, University of North Carolina
http://docsouth.unc.eduEmergence of Advertising in American, 1850-1920, Duke University
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/Harpweek Presents 19 th Century Advertising
http://www.harpweek.comLibrary of American Broadcasting, University of Maryland Libraries
http://www.lib.umd.edu/LABMaking of America, Cornell University
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moaMuseum of Broadcast and Communication
http://www.museum.tvNew York Public Library, Digital Collections
http://www.nypl.org/digitialThomas, Legislative Information, The Library of Congress
http://thomas.loc.gov
Preparing an Annotated Bibliography: “ An annotated bibliography is a list of citations to books, articles and documents. Each citation is followed by a brief (150 words) descriptive and evaluative paragraph, the annotation.” From Olin Uris Library, Cornell University. For additional information on annotated bibliographies, visit http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research
To schedule an individual research session
or for additional assistance contactLisa Yuro, 205 348-9016 or lyuro@bama.ua.edu
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