Pausing to Look at Topic Bibliographies
Here are the library catalog entries I've retrieved, just as they arrived in my e-mail account a moment ago. Notice that they contain all of the information we'll need to create bibliography entries for our paper. They also list the Ohio institutions that own these volumes, so we're ready to place an inter-library loan request. (Really crucial sources such as study guides should be ordered as early in the research process as possible.) However, it's too early to request these bibliographies, because we haven't yet really formulated a manageable topic. Take a moment to visit Interlibrary Loans before we move on, but please don't file an interlibrary loan request.
Record 1 of 2
LOCATIONS OSU
CALL # 016.970004/97 20.
Z1209 .W47 1995.
AUTHOR White, Phillip M.
TITLE American Indian studies : a bibliographic guide / Phillip M. White.
IMPRINT Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 1995.
DESCRIPT'N xi, 163 p. ; 25 cm.
NOTE Includes indexes.
SUBJECT Indians of North America -- Bibliography.
Reference books -- Indians of North America -- Bibliography.
OCLC # 32739776.
ISN/STD # C95-14126-7.
1563082438 :.b42939094.
LCCN cn 95014126.
LOCAL PAC Ohio State U.
Record 2 of 2
LOCATIONS CIN
AUTHOR Nordquist, Joan.
TITLE Native Americans : social, economic and political aspects : a
bibliography / compiled by Joan Nordquist.
IMPRINT Santa Cruz, CA : Reference and Research Services, 1998.
DESCRIPT'N 76 p. ; 22 cm.
SERIES Contemporary social issues : a bibliographical series, 0887-3569 ; no. 50.
Contemporary social issues (Santa Cruz, Calif.) ; no. 50.
SUBJECT Indians of North America -- Bibliography.
OCLC # 39970231.
ISN/STD # 0937855987.
LOCAL PAC Oberlin College. Ursuline College. U of Cincinnati. U of Akron.
Do you realize how far we've come? When I was an undergraduate, it would have taken hours and hours of thumbing through card catalogs to reach this point. We have surveyed a vast subject area, estimated its unmanageable dimensions, and tracked down some very recent study guides to help us narrow our research. We are on the verge of being able to formulate a research topic.
Remember: the goal is mastery of a well-limited topic. Of course we could have cobbled together some material from a bunch of randomly selected Web sources by now, and we'd be on our way toward producing a piece of work that some might call a research paper. However, I am hoping to guide you toward something better: a really excellent research paper.
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