USE OF OTHER LIBRARY CATALOGS

Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. I want to find general books that offer general literary criticism on her.

How many critical commentaries on Toni Morrison are listed in Catalyst, the HSU Library catalog?

What standard Library of Congress Subject Heading "subdivision" is used for works that are literary criticism?

How many critical commentaries on Toni Morrision are listed in the CSU Union Catalog using Pharos?

How many critical commentaries on Toni Morrision are listed in the California Digital Library (Melvyl) catalog?

How many critical commentaries are listed in WorldCat on Toni Morrison?

What conclusions can you make about the results of your searching through these library catalogs?

USE OF DISCIPLINE INDEXES

Most every discipline has at least one database or print index that indexes its scholarly literature. Use the Databases page on the HSU Library webpage or the Selected List of Print Indexes and Abstracts to find two indexes that index the literature in your major or current area of interest.

Index 1:

Name:

Types of literature included:

Unique indexing features (e.g., has online thesaurus of "controlled" subject keywords; other unique ways each reference is indexed that might be discipline dependent:

Interesting database search features (e.g., search options - basic & advanced; recall previous searches; display fulltext and library holdings; interlibrary loan options; print, save, email search results):

Name:

Types of literature included:

Unique indexing features (e.g., has online thesaurus of "controlled" subject keywords; other unique ways each reference is indexed that might be discipline dependent):

Interesting database search features (e.g., search options - basic & advanced; recall previous searches; display fulltext and library holdings; interlibrary loan options; print, save, email search results):