Anthropology 115: Human Nature and Human Culture (Gregor)
Library Research Guide
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Sue Erickson, Anthropology Librarian
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Phone: 322-0155
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Email: Sue
Erickson
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Locating Books in Acorn,
the library's catalog of its books, media,
and journal titles
Note: Acorn does not include journal article
titles or authors (see Locating Journal Articles)
When beginning a research project, it is usually best to begin
with a keyword search. Once you have looked at the full record for a few items
that are close to your topic you will have a better sense of the subject headings
that will be used to describe material on this topic. For example, if you
do a "Words Anywhere" search for Native Americans, you will
see that the subject heading that is used for books on this population is
Indians of North America. You can click on any of the subject headings
in a record and Acorn will automatically run a search on that subject heading.
To narrow a search, you can add terms and combine different
concepts with the term "and". In general, the fewer terms you use
in a search, the greater number of hits you will retrieve.
To broaden a search, you can combine similar terms (synonyms, alternate spellings) with the word OR (ex. inca or inka). Another way to broaden your search, is to use the truncation symbol to pick up variants of those terms (ex. relig$ and maya$). truncation symbol: $
The books in the Central Library are arranged by Library of Congress Classification call numbers. Most of the call number ranges that are relevant to Anthropology are as follows:
| Third floor: | Fifth floor: |
| CC 1-72 General Archaeology | GF Anthropogeography |
| CC 73-81 Methodology | GN 1-49 Anthropology (general) |
| GN 49-296 Physical Anthropology | |
| Eighth floor: | GN 301-673 Ethnology |
| E 51-78 Indians of North America | GR 1-99 Folklore (general) |
| F 1201-3430.1 Latin & South America | GR 100-113 Folklore, North America |
| GR 114-133 Folklore, Latin & South America | |
| GR 135-263 Folklore, Europe | |
| GR 430-950 Folklore (by specific subjects) |