ANT 416: Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology
Finding Books (and Journal Titles) Using the Library's Online Catalog
Use the library's on-line catalog
to locate books in our collection. You may also use it to check for holdings
at UNC-CH, Duke, and NC Central. Workstations in the D. H. Hill Library are
located on the first floor, East Wing (Learning Commons), West Wing (Reading
Room); the ground floor Reading Room; the north end of the second floor tower;
and the southwest corner of the fifth and sixth floor stacks. The book
catalog is available from any computer on the Internet.
You can search for books by author, title, subject, keyword, and by a
variety of alpha-numeric control numbers.
Standardized subject headings are used in LC (Library of
Congress) subject searches. The LCSH
is available online, and in a four volume set near the reference desk. Here
are some some sample subject headings relating to cultural anthropology:
| Anthropology |
Ethnic relations |
| Acculturation |
Ethnologists |
| Communication in ethnology |
Ethnology |
| [country] - Civilization |
Ethnomusicology |
| [country] - Ethnic identity |
Folklore |
| [country] - Ethnic relations |
Indigenous peoples |
| [country] - Folklore |
Industries, Primitive |
| [country] - Social life and customs |
Manners and customs |
| Cultural relativism |
Maritime anthropology |
| Economic anthropology |
Political anthropology |
| Ethnic barriers |
Race relations |
| Ethnic groups |
Social anthropology |
If you know the title of a relevant book, you can also
search this
title in the online catalog, look at what subject headings were used to index
it, and then search those subject headings for further books on the topic.
A second way to discover what subject terms have been chosen for use in the
library's catalog is to do a keyword search, display the
results, and
examine the subject heading lines that appear in each record's display. Note
any subject terms that interest you, quit the keyword search mode, and then do
a subject search on the terms you've noted.
Books in the library stacks on the 3d through 9th floors of the building
are arranged by LC
classification numbers that group material on a topic together. You may
be able to go to an area of the stacks and browse the books there to find
material of interest.
Records of the journal titles the library holds are
contained in the
library's catalog. The catalog also shows which years are available in the
building in hard-copy. A periodical title's catalog record provides a link to
an electronic copy of the title, if we have access to it in that format.
The library's catalog does not contain references to the
articles
within journals. It only records the titles of journals. You must use
databases to search the contents of journals. In
some
cases, you can find full-text of a journal's contents using these databases.
But that is not always possible. When full-text electronic access is not
available, search the library's catalog under the name of the journal you
want, obtain its call number, and then get the volume from the bookstack.
While this is a large library, it does not have all the books and journals
you may want to use in your studies. The Interlibrary and Document Delivery
Services (ILL/DDS) Office facilitates access to materials not available in
the NCSU Libraries. Requests for material in other Triangle libraries can
usually be filled in three to four days; items that must be obtained from a
greater distance may take several weeks to arrive.
Since the primary focus of the NCSU Libraries is not social science
subjects, you may want to search library catalogs comprehensively. The OCLC database contains millions of
records
of books, and you can find records to many volumes not held in local
libraries. You may request these books through the ILL service, but remember
to give yourself plenty of lead-time. We could be requesting these books from
libraries at a remote distance, and delivery time will be longer than for a
book found in the Triangle.
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