The Lamont News List January 9, 2006

The Lamont News-List lamontnews-list(a)fas.harvard.edu January 9, 2006 http://hcl.harvard.edu/lamont *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Happy New Year! Just a reminder that during Reading Period and exams, Lamont has extended its Friday and Saturday evening closing times from 9:45 p.m. to 12:45 a.m. The Quad Library is also open longer and later. You can find its hours here: http://hcl.harvard.edu/hours/week.cfm ********************************************************** IN THIS ISSUE: -- Recommend a Good Book to Lamont News-List Readers Send us a suggestion and you'll qualify for a great **prize** -- Power Searching Tip no. 3: How to get from an article citation to full-text in 4 easy steps! -- Citation Format Guides on the Web APA, MLA, Chicago style . . . and more -- Cool Tools on the Lamont Library Shelves LET'S GO 2006 travel guides have arrived! ********************************************************** RECOMMEND A GOOD BOOK TO LAMONT NEWS-LIST READERS Send in your suggestion and you might win a great **prize** We want to know what's on your shelf! Every year at this time, we issue a call to Lamont News-List subscribers for a few good book titles. And every year, we offer you a great incentive for sending in your suggestions. When you respond, we'll automatically enter you in a drawing to win 2 tickets to any **Loew's movie theater** (including the Harvard Square Cinema). We'll also toss in one of our rare (and much coveted) Lamont stainless steel mugs. To qualify for the drawing, here's what you need to do: send us the title of your favorite book, a book you're dying to read, a book you've read recently that made an impression on you, a book that changed your life. Include a few sentences about why you think other Lamont News-List readers might enjoy reading it, too. Books on any subject are welcome! You can even send us more than one title, if you're so inclined! As in past years, we'll compile the list and publish it in our late January issue of the Lamont News-List -- just in time for some Intersession R & R! And if you're one of the two lucky winners we'll be selecting at random, you'll have lots of "bookish" films to choose from. "Pride and Prejudice," "Capote," "Memoirs of a Geisha," "The Chronicles of Narnia," "Brokeback Mountain," and "Harry Potter" are still in wide release. "The DaVinci Code" (with Tom Hanks) and "Fateless" (from the book by Nobel-prize winner Imre Kertesz) are also on the way! Send your reading suggestions to sgilroy(a)fas.harvard.edu as soon as you can . . . but not later than ** Monday, January 16, 2006** at 5 p.m. ********************************************************* POWER SEARCHING TIP no. 3: How to get from an article citation to the full-text in 4 easy steps! Let's say your TF has sent you an email with citations to the three journal articles he thinks you should read before your final next week. Or, let's say you've come across the journal article yourself in the bibliography of a book that's been helpful in your research. What should you do? Step 1: Go to the Harvard Libraries Portal page (http://lib.harvard.edu) Step 2: Click on "CITATION LINKER." You'll find it under the red "E-Resources" menu button at the top of the page (and also among the items listed at the bottom of the home page screen). Step 3: In the screen that next opens, type the JOURNAL NAME in the "title" box. (You can add other information, too, if you wish -- like the volume number and the year -- although "title" should work just fine.) Hit the <Enter> key or click on the "find it @harvard" button. If the journal you're after is one of the 22,000 or so that the libraries make available in full-text, you'll be presented with one or more options for retrieving it. Step 4, in that case, is amazingly easy: just point and click. The great thing about CITATION LINKER is that it works in such a way that at the same time it's searching our e-resources for you, it's also looking in the HOLLIS catalog, just in case there's also -- or only --a hard (print) copy of the journal available. ********************************************************* CITATION FORMAT GUIDES ON THE WEB: MLA, APA, Chicago Style and more! It's that time of year again: Harvard undergraduates in the thick of research projects, style guides flying off the reference shelves. Even students who have mastered the intricacies of parenthetical references or the rules for books without publication dates can feel stumped by the proper formats for journal articles, government documents, or an interview transcript. And then there's that whole other world of online information: that article from LexisNexis that doesn't have page breaks, the report that you've stumbled across on a U.N. website, the email that you really want to quote in your paper. If you can't find your old Expos copy of _Writing With Sources_ or aren't near a Lamont copy of the _Chicago Manual of Style_, perhaps the answer to your question can be found at one of the websites we describe below. ** Research and Documentation Online http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/index.html Produced by Diana Hacker, well-known for her writing handbooks, this nicely organized site is arranged by broad subject: Humanities (which favor MLA), Social Sciences (APA style), History (Chicago style), and Science (CBE style). Each section contains rules, examples, and a sample paper in the featured format. ** ONLINE! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/shrttoc.html This website is hosted by Bedford/St. Martin's Press, a leading publisher of writing manuals and composition textbooks. If you're citing HTML documents straight from the web, this is a good place to go for advice about citing in APA, MLA, CBE, and Chicago styles. It can help you source information from Harvard-owned e-resources, too -- like LexisNexis. ** Citing References in Your Paper http://www.wisc.edu/writetest/Handbook/Documentation.html Produced by the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the site offers examples and illustrations of major citation styles. It also has a thoughtful section on paraphrasing and offers tips on how to do it well. ********************************************************* COOL TOOLS IN LAMONT: LET'S GO 2006 travel guides have arrived on our shelves! If you're planning a great escape from Cambridge during Intersession, we have good news for you: LET'S GO 2006 guides have arrived in Lamont! Written by Harvard students, LET'S GO bills itself as the "bible of the budget traveler," and each guide is packed with information that will help you stretch your dollars further, find hidden deals, and decide what you should splurge on. LET'S GO 2006 guides are kept on Lamont's Reference shelves [REF ROOM G 153 .6]. These can't leave the library, because they're in such high demand, especially in the spring term, when undergraduates begin comping for summer jobs at LET'S GO. However, earlier editions -- from 2004 and 2005 -- can be checked out. You'll find them in the travel collection in our Farnsworth Room on Level 5. The LET'S GO website (http://www.letsgo.com) is also worth a look for additional travel information, airfare specials, travel blogs, photo forums, and the like. And by the way: LET'S GO guides aren't the only travel books you'll find in Lamont. LONELY PLANET and FODOR guides are shelved nearby in the Farnsworth Room. ********************************************************* HAVE A TOPIC you'd like to see us cover in a future issue of the Lamont News-List? A research question you need answered? A tip you want to pass along to other Lamont News-List reader? All suggestions welcome! Send your thoughts and comments to sgilroy(a)fas.harvard.edu. ********************************************************* You received this email because you subscribed to the Lamont News-List. If at any time you wish to stop receiving this newsletter, point your browser to http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/lamontnews-list. Directions for unsubscribing are at the bottom of the page. Copyright 2006 President and Fellows of Harvard University *********************************************************