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name____________________________ BRING UP THIS EXERCISE ON THE WEB
Some notes about researching your topics. World Theatre students have a tremendous range of possible topics! To get acquainted with the range of resources available to you, everyone will want to do all the little exercises on this handout. ONLINE CATALOG -- To find books in this library
Although you can search for books by author, titles, and subject, oftentimes, it is handy to do a keyword search. You can use an asterisk ( * ) to truncate a word. For example, japan* theat* will search for books that have Japan and its variations, AND any word that begins with the letters t-h-e-a-t (theatre, theater, theatres, etc.). To check if the library has books about a person, do a SUBJECT HEADING search, and type in last name first, e.g., Ibsen, Henrik Books may be in the main stacks, or, if they are oversized, in the folio stacks (main stack and folio stack books are the ones you can borrow). You'll also run across books shelved in Reference (you use those in the library). Search for books on your topic. Note information about one that interests you here:
Electronic books Increasingly, you'll find electronic versions of printed books via the library catalog. They're called eBooks. We have about 18,000 of them. You can read the library's eBooks from any computer connected to the Internet. When you are on campus using the online catalog, you just click through to use them. If you're off campus, you just type in your library card number to get access.
FIND INFORMATION
ABOUT PLAYWRIGHTS, PLAYS
FIND PERIODICAL ARTICLES Academic Search Premier provides access to information about articles published in approximately 8,000 periodicals (both magazines and journals) for about the last 10-15 years. For more than half of those periodicals, full text copies of the articles are in the database. Most of you already know how to use this database. For those of you for whom this is new, here's how you use Academic Search Premier.
Type in your search terms. You can use an asteriak ( * ) to search for words with various word endings.
Once
you find an article, click on the article title to get to the screen
with full information about it. Plus, from here, you can print, email, and even get a citation for the article! Wow!
NOTE: Just so you know You'll probably end up emailing yourself the materials you access today and want to get back to. We support students doing research here in the classroom. You can print out during your session here today -- limit yourself to about 10-15 pages per student. Newspapers 1) The Library subscribes to a National Newspapers database, which provides indexing, and full text, for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Christian Science Monitor. Use this database for research about contemporary theatre people and productions.
Suppose I were interested in finding interviews with Meryl Streep. My search could look like this: 
2) Older newspaper articles (1851-2005) The Library subscribes to the Historical New York Times database. Use this database for research about historical theatre people and productions.
Suppose you were interested in Sarah Bernhardt and wanted to see if anyone had written in the New York Times about her theory of acting. Your search could look like this:
Notice that you can limit the date ranges. This is terrific! Suppose you wanted to read stories about Bernhardt written when she was on tour in America. All you'd need would be the tour dates, and you'd be set! For access to other newspaper Web sites -- From the Cabrillo College Library homepage, click on Internet Links, and then on News & Newspapers. VIDEOS As you probably know, there are a gazillion videos now easily available on the Web. They come from everywhere -- perhaps you've uploaded some, surely your neighbors have. You know that you can get to home-made videos like that through YouTube.com. For mostly non-homemade videos, the best outlet I've found is Poke around for a video on a topic of interest to you. What did you find? ____________________________________________________ Google Books -- Google is digitizing books. They have just passed the 7 million mark!!! Here's a little video that shows one of the digitizers being used. Here's another one. The important point is that, like with the NetLibrary e-Books, you can search inside these books. Here's a sample search:
Your turn. Try using Google Books for information on your topic. What did you find? _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ WEB RESOURCES FOR THEATRE RESEARCH There are abundant, excellent sites that support theatre research. Here are a few of them:
Finding Web Resources on Your Own It's one thing to have a Web resource recommended to you, and it's quite another to go out and find quality resources on your own. The quality and usefulness of Web resources varies a good deal. Some useful criteria to use for evaluative purposes are
Getting to a list of Internet Search Engines
Many of us use Google all the time, but you might want to try some others. Look for some Web resources on your topic and make notes here about what you found:
You can use Google Books to look up chapters in books about researching and writing papers. Here are some suggestions:
Also available in the Cabrillo Library's electronic book collection is The Research Project: How to Write It -- Routledge Study Guides; 5th Ed. by Berry, Ralph. London Taylor & Francis Routledge, 2004. To get to the NetLibrary ebooks:
CITE YOUR SOURCES When you writing your research paper, you will need to writing citations to the sources you used. There are style guides on the Web that help you!
COPYING IMAGES
INTO WORD DOCUMENTS Go to one of these image sources:
To insert an image into a Word document:
If you copy and include the image in something you write, the origin of the image should be acknowledged. At the minimum, give the title of the Web site and the complete URL (you can just copy and paste the URL into your Word document -- highlight the URL, then Ctrl C to copy and Ctrl V to paste). Your image is there. Word is not PhotoShop (an expensive software program for altering images) -- you can't really "doctor up" your image, but you can do some manipulations. You can write next to and below the image. To put text around the image -- click on the image, go to Format -> Picture. Click on Layout tab, and select the wrapping format you want. You can also, you'll note, change the size and do some other minor alterations. Okay: I can't resist. This has nothing to do with this class. But Google has just come out with these:
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