History 250: China, Past and Present

Welcome to the Library Research Guide for History 250: China Past and Present! It includes information and resources designed to aid you in locating research and managing sources for your assignments this semester.

For research questions:

• Email Ann at schaez1@stolaf.edu or schedule a research consultation if you have any research questions
• Email Sara at sara@stolaf.edu if you have any Genially or image annotation questions

For writing help:

• Make an appointment with the Writing Desk for assistance with organizing ideas and improving your writing style.

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Slide 1: HIST 250: China Past and Present Research Session

Slide 2: 

Ann Schaenzer
Research & Instruction Librarian for Social Sciences and Data Literacy
schaez1@stolaf.edu

[Image: photo of Ann Schaenzer.]

Slide 3: Goals for today

• Chat with your group and do some brainstorming!
• Find secondary sources to support your research:
  • Scholarly books in Catalyst
  • Scholarly journal articles in databases
• Save sources to a shared document

Slide 4: Try some brainstorming! 

Take a couple minutes to chat with your group about a topic you’d like to consider for the annotated bibliography project!

Slide 5: Try some brainstorming! 

Let’s focus in a bit more. Now take a few minutes to chat with your group about:

1. What you already know about your potential topic
2. What you still want or need to find out about this topic
3. What are some potential keywords you could use to look for information on this topic?

Slide 6:

[Image: St. Olaf library homepage.]

Slide 7: Now You Try!

• Find a scholarly book related to your topic in Catalyst. Save a complete Chicago style citation for the book and indicate how you will access the book:
  • Read it online. It’s an e-book.
  • Find it on the shelf at Rolvaag.
  • Request it from Carleton.
• Find scholarly journal articles related to your topic from a library database or Catalyst. Save Chicago style citations and PDFs of the articles. Request articles via Resource Sharing if necessary.

Slide 8: Questions?

Slide 9: 

• Connect at stolaf.edu/library 
• Make an Appointment at go.stolaf.edu/appointment
• Email Ann at schaez1@stolaf.edu