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Library Tutorials
Skill Guides
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Subject Bibliographies and Lists

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Library Tutorials

Library Research: A Hypertext Guide ~ NEXIS: The Basics

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Skill Guides: How to Find Resources

These online guides explain how to find books, periodicals, and other resources in the Cornell University Library. Included are guides explaining how to conduct library research from choosing a topic to citing library resources in the bibliography of a research paper.

For a tutorial that incorporates many of these guides and other suggestions and resources, see Library Research: A Hypertext Guide.

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Finding Videorecordings and Sound Recordings in the Cornell Library Catalog

Research Strategy: Finding Information Efficiently

How to Use the Online Catalog

How to Search by Keyword in the Online Catalog

Distinguishing Scholarly from Non-Scholarly Periodicals

Finding the News

How to Critically Analyze Information Sources

How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography

Basic Searching on First Search: MLA

How Literature is Structured

Library of Congress Classification

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Bibliographies and Other Instructional Materials

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Course Materials: Bibliographies, Tutorials, and Guides Prepared for Specific Classes

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FALL 1998

Art History 110: Art in Society

Asian Studies 211: Introduction to Japan

Classics 117: Greek Literature: Who were the Greeks?

Communication 130, Who Are We Becoming?

Communication 203, Argumentation and Debate

Comparative Literature 103.5: Of Mice and Men

Comparative Literature 103.6: Fictions of the Americas and Regional Spaces

Cornell Model UN

Economics 101: Introduction to Microeconomics ~ Econ 101 class page

English/Women's Studies 105.06: Women and the Holocaust

English 108: Writing About Film

English 127: Shakespeare

English 136: The Practice of Prose

English 158: American Literature and Culture

English 271: The Reading of Poetry

French Literature 109: Intro to Semiotics

German Studies 130: The Roaring Twenties, German Style

German Studies 180: Towards the Net.citizen

Government 100.1: Power and Politics: India

Government 100.5: Approaches to Political Economy

Government 494: Government Honors Seminar

History 126: Local History: Cornell University

PAM 230: Introduction to Policy Analysis ~ PAM 230 class page

Philosophy 100.10: Socrates, Sage or Sophist?

Rural Sociology 109: AIDS and Societies

Sociology 102: The Social Contruction of Fatness and Thinness

Writing Workshop 137 (Pierpont section)

Writing Workshop 137 (Shapiro sections)

SUMMER 1998

English for Later Bilinguals 215

Human Ecology 101

Human Ecology 101 (Art History Section)

Telluride Summer Program: Almost Human: Monstrous Forms and Identity Crisis

Writing Workshop 134.3

Writing Workshop 134.4: Finding Images

SPRING 1998

Communication 130: Who Are We Becoming? Self, Identity, and the 'Net

CRP 400: Urban and Regional Theory

English 127: Shakespeare

English 158: American Literature and Culture

English 271: The Reading of Poetry

English 345: Victorian Controversies

History 100.85: Who Killed JFK?

Italian Literature 101: The Craft of Storytelling

Landscape Architecture 363: American Indians, Planners, and Public Policy

PAM 380 (was HSS 315): Human Sexuality Library Tutorial

Plant Pathology 102: Environmental Issues and the Changing Global Climate

Psychology 209: Developmental Psychology

Science and Technology Studies 119: Scientific Method: History and Politics of the Controversy

Writing Workshop 138: An Introduction to Writing in the University

FALL 1997

Anthropology 152: Sports and Culture

Anthropology 153: The Culture of Magazines

Anthropology 167: Masculinity in Light of Feminism

Communication 203: Argumentation and Debate

Communication 350: Magazine Writing

Comparative Literature 113: Reading Sonnets

CRP 100: The American City

CRP 417/517: Industrial Restructuring

English 115: The State of the Language

English 158: American Literature and Culture

English 185.1: Victoria's Secrets

French Literature 109: Intro to Semiotics

History 100.69: The Sixties

Italian Literature 101: The Craft of Storytelling

Library Research Orientation Sessions

Medieval Studies 101.2: Barbarians of Medieval Britain

Near Eastern Studies 108: Modern Hebrew Literature

PAM 230: Introduction to Policy Analysis

PAM 383: Social Welfare as a Social Institution

Plant Pathology 101

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SUMMER 1997 AND BEFORE

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Subject Bibliographies and Lists: Where to Find Resources

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British Parliamentary Papers

Genealogical Research at Cornell

Journals, Directories, and Indexes in American Fiction & Poetry [titles and call numbers]

Linguistics: A Reference Bibliography

Pre-1800 Imprints

Reference Sources in American Literature: A Selected Bibliography

Reference Sources in Anthropology: A Selected Bibliography

Reference Sources in English Literature: A Selected Bibliography

Sources of Information on Historic Preservation

Women's Lives and Politics: Microform Collections at Cornell

List of O*K*U Reference Subject Bibliographies in print

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Reference Home Page

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Revised November 3, 1998
Tony Cosgrave and Michael Engle
Reference Services Division, Olin*Kroch*Uris Libraries
Cornell University Library
URL: http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/bibliogr.htm

Olin and Uris Libraries, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853
Information and reference: 607-255-4144, okuref@cornell.edu
Circulation: (Olin) 607-255-4245, (Uris) 607-255-3537, olincirc@cornell.edu