Introduction to Library Research

1. A Student's Guide to "Big Red": Library of Congress Subject Headings (p. 24))
    
2. Guide to the Library of Congress Classification Scheme (p. 25)
    
3. Evaluating Books and Journal Articles (p. 27)
   
   
4. Using Contemporary Authors (p. 28)
    
5. How to Use Book Review Digest (p. 29)
    
6. Evaluating Print Sources (p. 30)
   
   

1. Natural Language v. Library of Congress Subject Headings (p. 56)
    
2. Advanced Catalog/Subject Headings (p. 57)
    

Contemporary Authors.  Detroit: Gale, 1962- .  [Reference Index Area:  Z1224.C6]

Library of Congress Subject Headings  [Reference Index Area]
 

Examples from Library of Congress Subject Headings
http://bullpup.lib.unca.edu/library/lr/lr101/greene/lcsh.html

Evaluating Print and Web Resources (Univ. of Massachussetts)
http://www1.umassd.edu/specialprograms/info_lit/evalu.html

Evaluation of  Print Sources (BC Library)
http://www.bakersfieldcollege.org/library/qualify.asp

Gale Literary Index
http://www.galenet.com/servlet/LitIndex

Gale Biography Resource Center (See Library Homepage)

limits
natural language primary sources
relevance
qualifying sources
secondary sources sub-headings
truncation 

1. Advanced Catalog/Library of Congress Subject Headings
    
2. Evaluating Print Sources--Books