HISTORY OF ENGLAND
 History 211
Library Assignment 

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This assignment must be completed in your campus library.   If you need assistance, ask the reference Librarian for help.  From the Library Home Page, click on the Catalog to find books.  Look for three book on any period of British History.   Examine these listing with the thought that you are hunting for a topic for your Research Paper or Book Review.

Examples:
Subject Heading(s: The English Revolution;  Shakespeare;  Richard III
Subject Heading(s: Tower of London
Key Words:   England, Revolution, Charles I,  Cromwell

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ARTICLES, MAGAZINES, JOURNALS, NEWSPAPERS
From the library Homepage, click on Magazines, Newspapers & Reference Databases.   From the next screen, pick one of the following indexes such as One File, Expanded Academic, or ProQuest.  Find two articles on Modern England (Margaret Thatcher, Lloyd George, The Coal Strike of 1929).
Scroll down to the part of the page with a list of subject-specific areas, than click on history to view a list of databases of  more specialized history sources, i.e. JSTOR and more database choices.

INTERNET

From the Libraries Homepage click on Internet.  You will see a list of search engines and subject directories from which you can search the web
You may start your search in Yahoo or Google (a really big search engine), or in a much more selective subject directory such as the Librarians' Index to the Internet.
Please, also take a look at Vivisimo, which calls itself a "document clustering technology."  If you do a search, then click on cluster, and look on the left side of the page, you will find a sorted list of topics.
Find four WEB sites that have information on England.  List their URLS (WEB addresses that start with http) and describe the content of the WEB site and who produced it.

Evaluate the Web site.  See http://www.nvcc.edu/library/evaluate.htm

How can this site be used for your future topic?

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