Library Catalogs

Hist. 96.2 - The First World War

Dartmouth Library Catalog

The Dartmouth Library Catalog is an index to materials owned and licensed by the Dartmouth College Library, including:
• Books, maps, government documents
• Sound recordings, musical scores, video recordings
• Manuscripts and archival material
• Journals, magazines, newspapers and other publications to which the library subscribes
• Computer programs, databases, electronic texts and journals
• Materials on order or recently received, as well as those that are already on the shelves

The Catalog does not contain references to specific journal articles. References to journal articles can be found in the INDEXES/ABSTRACTS noted above. Ê

Books

Author or Title indexes

• To see if the Library owns a particular book search the Author or Title "fields" alone or in combination.

NOTE: Author search is entered LAST NAME first.

         Title search is by EXACT TITLE PHRASE, i.e. : "great war and the British people " NOT "great war people".

                If you do not know an exact title phrase do a KEYWORD search for the title words.

Keyword index

• Searches for keywords or phrases across the major search fields: author, title, subjects, series, notes, and publishers.

NOTE: Multiple words are searched together as a phrase, e.g. "history of leisure". The AND or OR connectors must be used to create a relationship between independent terms, e.g. "leisure AND Great Britain."

Opening a record displays it in FULL format.

RLIN

Dartmouth has provided access to the RLIN database for a number years, and it is a familiar resource to many. RLIN Eureka contains information about more than 22 million books, periodicals, recordings, scores, archival collections, and other kinds of material held in approximately 125 major research institutions. Both RLIN and WorldCat have been increasing their international holdings by creating ties with major foreign libraries. RLIN , for example, now links to the Consortium of University Research Libraries in Great Britain and Ireland (CURL Union Catalogue), the Deutsche Bibliothek Database, and the National Library of Australia.

WorldCat

WorldCat is the public version of the OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) database and includes over 40 million records representing 400 languages. The database includes books, periodicals, magazines, newspapers, maps, computer data files, manuscripts, sound recordings, and any other type of material. Material dates from the 11th century to the present. Although many of the over 8,000 libraries represented are public libraries, virtually all U.S. academic and many association libraries are also included.

Libweb

Libweb, a Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE, lists over 6,000 libraries (academic, public, national) in 100 countries (Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, North America, and Australia). It allows users direct access to an institution's library records. Useful in cases where a domestic institution may not submit records to a central source such as OCLC and for areas of the world which are not otherwise represented in shared cataloging programs.

Search Terms - Keywords

Determining a few key terms and combining them with other search terms results in a "search strategy."

KEYWORD searching: When combining search terms in the Library Catalog use the connectors "AND" and "OR" to combine
terms:
E.g. - "(world war I or first world war) and western front"
" * " is the character for truncating a word stem, i.e. pacifis* finds "pacifist, pacifists, pacifism..."

• World War 1914 - in combination with the terms below will limit your search to the topic of WW I.

• To locate primary sources try these words/phrases (in combination with "world war 1914"):
- sources
- archival
- documents
- personal narratives

• Women
- feminist(s)
- home front
- everyday life
- war work

• monuments
- memorials

• literature
- photography
-music, songs
- art
- poetry
- fiction
- theater
- motion pictures, film(s)
- popular culture

• peace
- armistices
- League of Nations

• protest movements
- dissenters
- peace movements
- draft resisters
- pacifism, pacifist(s)
- executions
- courts-marial
- deserters

• causes
- origins
- nationalism
- militarism
- revolution, Russia(n)

• campaigns (and country, e.g. France..., or place, e.g. Somme...)
- Western Front
- Eastern Front
- Middle East
- total war
- army, naval operations, aerial operations

• combat
- atrocities
- chemical warfare
- psychological aspects
- veterans
- disabled
- casualties

• mass media
- pree coverage
- public opinion
- propaganda

• influence
- social life
- social aspects
- social conditions
- race
- African Americans
- economic aspects
- economic policy
- finance
- class

• medical care
- nurses