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HIST 150: Memoirs of World War II Germany (Fall 2025)
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HIST 150: Memoirs of World War II Germany (Fall 2025)
Introduction
Session Goals 9/23/25
Navigating Primary Sources
Library Services & Resources (Overview)
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Libraries Undergraduate Library Research Awards
How do we have so many Resources?
Subject Databases
Why Do We Need So Many Databases?
Primary Vs Secondary Sources
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What Is peer review?
Primary OR secondary?
Reference Sources
Searching With Boolean (AND OR NOT)
Finding Books
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Worldcat: Accessing books we don't own
Finding Articles
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How to order articles we don't own?
Primary Sources
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Activity!
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Team 1
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Team 6
Citation
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Zotero
Annotated Bibliographies
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Wrap Up
Using the catalog to find materials
memoirs from WW2 Germany in the catalog
not many results, but it shows the search works. Try in worldcat!
personal narratives in the catalog
narrow by adding an extra keyword, or using the filters on the left
Using Worldcat
German WW2 Memoirs in worldcat
use filters to narrow further
german personal narrative in worldcat for WW2
there are a ton: narrow to English language, the narrow by the subject filter or add another keyword
There are about 8,000 english language, non-fiction narratives; limit using the subject filter
Slightly narrower search for su: World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, German
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