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Noodlebib Tutorial: Two YouTube Shorts

Lisa Laughy — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:42:09 +0000

Finishing up end-of-term papers? Prepping for Spring Term research?

Consider using Noodlebib to craft and store citations. The two short films below identify, first, how to create a Noodlebib account, and secondly, how to use Noodlebib to create MLA style citations.

How To Create a Noodlebib Account:

How To Create a MLA Citation Using Noodlebib:

Click HERE to access the Ohrstrom Library channel on YouTube.

New Reference Book: International Relations, International Security, and Comparative Politics: A Guide to Reference and Information Sources

Lura Sanborn — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:00:13 +0000

International Relations, International Security, and Comparative Politics: A Guide to Reference and Information Sources by Chad M. Kahl, Libraries Unlimited, 2008.

Find it in Ohrstrom at: REF 016.32 K12I

A reference book about reference books!

This volume identifies and describes research sources related to politics/policy the world over, including international law, organizations, security, leaders and political parties and philosophy.

Examples include:
•   Statistical sources related to American and Caribbean Politics
•   Yearbooks related to International Law and Treaties
•   Chronologies related to International Security
•   Guides and Handbooks related to Middle Eastern Politics
•   Dictionaries and Encyclopedias related to Women in Politics

Helpful for: Global Studies, Politics, Economics, Model UN, Humanities

Citing Indirect Sources: “Quoted in”

Lura Sanborn — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:00:51 +0000

From time to time fourth form students find helpful quote(s) located in something other than the quote’s original source. This is referred to as an indirect source. When parenthetically citing an indirect source, do give credit to the indirect source. To do so, use the term “qtd. in” (stands for “quoted in”) followed by the last name of the author of the indirect source, followed by the page number on which the quote was found.

For example:

Schoder concludes that in Millville, “everybody wears plaid” (qtd. in Smith 275).

The end-of-paper, complete bibliographic citation for this same item, would then begin with the author of the indirect source.

For example:

Smith, Harry. The Fashions of St. Paul’s School. Concord: St. Paul’s Press, 2011. Print.

For additional information please see the 7th edition of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, page 226, section 6.4.7. Two copies of this text are available at the Library’s front desk.

New Reference Book: Andean Studies: 1530-1900

Lura Sanborn — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:00:18 +0000

Guide to Documentary Sources for Andean Studies: 1530-1900 edited by Joanne Pillsbury, U. of Oklahoma with the National Gallery of Art, 2008.

Find it in Ohrstrom at: REF 985 P64G

In three volumes this set intends to “…support research on the Prehispanic, colonial, and republican periods of the Andean region of South America” (xi). Specifically, the work focuses on texts and authors from this area in the 16th-19th century. More than a bibliographic inventory, throughout, the set pairs inventory with essay, to provide historical/social/cultural context and meaning.

Examples include: Visitas, Censuses and other Sources of Population Information; Chronicles of the Andes in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; Alessandro Malaspina (1754-1810); Indigenous Texts, Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882).

Helpful for: Incan History, Latin American Studies, Latin American History, Humanities V, Art, Literature, Anthropology

So Cited: Parentheticals

Lura Sanborn — Thu, 27 May 2010 12:00:02 +0000

As the Humanities V research paper draws to a close, proofreading is in the air.

Consider using Noodlebib as a helpful guide when double-checking those parenthetical citations.

How?: When logged in to your Noodlebib account, click on your Humanities V list (what we would refer to as the paper’s bibliography) and find the citation being parenthetically cited. Follow that citation all the way over to the right-hand side, and click parenthetical reference to reveal Noodlebib’s suggestion.

What?: Parenthetically cite when you quote, paraphrase or refer to another person’s idea(s).