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the Library catalog to locate books, periodicals titles, government documents,
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Subject headings and
subdivisions are categories used in the Library
catalog to classify the content of books and other materials available
in the Horace Mann and Owens Library. Use a subject
search if you want to narrow a keyword
search that retrieves too many irrelevant results. Also use a subject
search if you want to find biographies or critical reviews on an author's
work(s). For personal names, enter the last name of the author first. Ignore
capital letters or punctuation. Example: crutcher,
chris
If trying to locate
work's BY a specific author, perform an author search with the last name
first.
Use the author option to search for the names of authors and illustrators. For personal
names, enter the last name of the author first. Ignore capital letters or
punctuation. Example:blume
judy
If trying to locate information ABOUT an author (i.e. biography, criticism),
perform a subject search with the last name first.
At this site,
search by title or author to locate books published by the Gale Group, a
highly respected publisher of literary reference materials. To locate which
Gale Group publications Owens Library subscribes to, view the Contemporary
Authors Guide.
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Other Library Catalogs
From the Library
Catalog link, the upper-left menu bar displays a link to Towers
Home (holdings of Conception Abbey, Missouri Western State College, North
Central Missouri College, and Northwest Missouri State University that can
be searched as one catalog). The MOBIUS Catalog (holdings of 50 academic institutions
in Missouri) can be searched as one catalog by clicking on MOBIUS.
Use Other
Library Catalogs to search for books not available in the MOBIUS Union
Catalog.
Any materials not available
at Northwest can be requested through Interlibrary
Loan.
Find
Periodical Articles
Use periodical indexes
to locate article citations and summaries on children's literature authors
and topics.
- A concise list of
and description of indexes appropriate for children's literature is available
on the Recommended
Curriculum & Instruction/Educational Leadership Databases
- Be sure to use synonyms
for keywords. Concepts for children's literature topics may be referred
to by variant terms. Different indexes may use different terms to describe
the same concept. For example, when subject
guide searching for author information in Gale Expanded Academic,
variant terms are:
- Click here for directions on locating periodicals in Owens Library
The following items are
links to pre-recorded searches within Gale's Expanded Academic database.
Each search is narrowed to a specific journal. These searches will locate
author and illustrator interviews. After clicking on the link, searches can
be narrowed further by clicking on "Limit Search" and typing another
keyword (e.g. Steven Kellogg or illustrator*) in the "entries containing
the word(s)" box.
Locating Children's Literature
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the Library Catalog
A bibliography of recommended K-12
Literature Sources found in the Horace Mann and Owens Library can be found
by clicking here. To locate more books, periodicals titles, government documents,
videocassettes, music CDs and other materials available in the Owens and Horace
Mann Library, Search the Library
Catalog.
Subject headings and
subdivisions are categories used in the Library
catalog to classify the content of books and other materials available
in the Library. Use a subject
search if you want to find information about a single concept or idea
such as comic books and children or children's literature.
Also use a subject search if you want to narrow a keyword
search that retrieves too many irrelevant results. There are many related
terms for the subject heading Juvenile Literature or Children's Literature . Click
here or here to link to these related subject headings respectively. Children's Literature
subject headings are often divided into subdivisions (specific aspects of
the main subject heading). Example subdivision structures are shown below:
Subject Heading
-- Time Period -- subtopic
Children's Literature -- 20th Century -- History and criticism
Subject Heading -- Geographic location -- subtopic
Children's Literature -- United States -- Bibliography
When entering subject
headings in the library catalog search form it is not necessary to include
punctuation or capital letters. For instance when entering the subject heading Children's Literature -- 20th Century -- History and criticism, you
could type children's literature 20th century history and criticism in
the search form.
- KEYWORD SEARCHING:
Use a keyword
search when you need to find a match between two or more concepts.
Combine search terms with the connectors and, or, not.
A sample keyword search is shown below:
children and
literature and fantasy
Truncation allows
users to stem words or retrieve root words with several endings. The truncation
symbol in the Owens Library catalog is an asterisk(*). Use
double asterisks ** for more than 6 characters. The search shown below
will locate records in the Owens
Library catalog that include the words child, children,
or childhood.
child*
Keyword searches
may include nesting. Nested terms are similar or related terms (such as child* and juvenile* in the example below). You enclose nested
terms in parentheses and combine them with an "or":
(child* or young
adult* or juvenile* or adolescent*) and literature and fantas*
Qualifying a search
allows users to look for information in a specific field of a catalog
record such as the author, title, subject or note field. The search shown
below locates the words science fair in records with juvenile
literature in the s (subject) field only.
s:juvenile literature
and science fair
Read tips about
truncating, nesting, and qualifying searches in the Help section of the Owens Library catalog.
Search
Other Libraries
From the Library
Catalog link, the upper-left menu bar displays a link to Towers
Home (holdings of Conception Abbey, Missouri Western State College, North
Central Missouri College, and Northwest Missouri State University that can
be searched as one catalog). The MOBIUS Catalog (holdings of 50 academic institutions
in Missouri) can be searched as one catalog by clicking on MOBIUS.
Use Other
Library Catalogs to search for books not available in the MOBIUS Union
Catalog.
Any materials not available
at Northwest can be requested through Interlibrary
Loan.
Find
Periodical Articles
Use periodical indexes
to locate article citations and summaries on children's literature authors
and topics.
- A concise list of
and description of indexes appropriate for children's literature is available
on Recommended
Curriculum & Instruction/Educational Leadership Databases.
- Be sure to use the
synonyms for keywords. Concepts for children's literature topics may be
referred to by variant terms. Different indexes may use different terms
to describe the same concept. For example, when keyword
searching children's literature related to sports in Gale Expanded
Academic, variant terms are:
- Click here for directions on locating periodicals in Owens Library
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