Middle East Studies

*RefWorks:. Access

Evaluation.

Practice time

• *Introduction. My role as Librarian for the Middle East and South Asia Languages and Cultures department: maintain contact with the faculty, undergraduate and graduate students, do training, make purchase requests, develop bibliographies, and preform other related services.

  TODAY: --Pointers to resources. Follow along on your own terminal, except one database

• --Encourage to ask questions as go along, or arise, even general questions
  --email me, pm9k@virginia.edu

  *Location in Alderman - Help and checkout, Reference, Stacks (P, DS), Periodicals and journals, Government Docs and Scholars Lab

  *Print reference resources - encyclopedias, journals, monographs

  *The Library Catalog - VIRGO. (Bring up home page and VIRGO)

  • --This is a gateway to more than just catalog, databases; Hours, Maps, Subject Guides, Finding a book
    --VIRGO catalog screen, Searching with terms
    --Click on one title to see all its information
    See hot-linked Related Subjects, Authors
    --Emailing, marking, exporting to RefWorks, Print (Don't do it, right now in class)
    The Black line - VIRGO Classic, Course Reserves, Requests for ILL and Purchase, Databases. 
  
  
   
• *VIRGO all databases and Middle East databases
  --Note about Off grounds access: to make available from home/off-grounds, need to set up proxy account (prompted once a session, easy to do) or UVa Anywhere. See Note at Databases page
  • A. Index Islamicas Search, save, print, email
    B. Other databases - "Go to Databases."
    Academic Search Complete (Web),
    ATLA Religion database,
    Bibliography of Asian Studies 1971+ (Web),
    Digital Dissertations,
    Historical Abstracts [all the world but North America since 1450],
    JSTOR,
    Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe,
    Periodicals Contents Index (PCI) online, 
•           WorldCat: First Search.
  • WorldCat (verification for ILL).
    
    OneSearch For Middle East, South Asia, summary, etc.
• *From the Library Home page and Databaeses
  • A. Middle East Guide and databases
  
  
   
  • B. Purchase requests.
    C. InterLibrary Services and ILS requests Eg for books, articles, dissertations, etc

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