Grottoes to Graceland

Grottoes to Graceland: Sacred Spaces

Need help with your research? Contact:

Kelly Cannon
Humanities & Business Librarian
phone: x3602
email: kcannon@muhlenberg.edu
IM (AIM, Yahoo, MSN): refcannon
Reference desk IM: talktotrexler

Reference works

Reference works on a variety of subjects are available on level A of the library.

Books

Trexler Library Catalog
ACCESS: Trexler Library website (http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library) > catalog.
Catalog of all books, government documents and maps, videos, and special collections in Trexler Library at Muhlenberg College.

WorldCat
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Library Catalogs
Catalog of books and documents in libraries throughout the world. Watch especially for the AREA LIBRARIES designation.

Library reserves

Professors often place books, articles, atlases, etc. on reserve at the library's circulation desk. Inquire at this desk if you need reserve items for a particular course.

Professors may also choose to use the library's ERes (electronic reserves) system. To access this service (password required) visit Trexler Library website > Reserves.

Periodical articles

POPULAR SOURCES. . .

Academic Search Premier
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Databases A to Z
A subscription database. A good place for locating popular magazine and newspaper articles on a topic.

LexisNexis Academic
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Databases A to Z
Extensive newspaper and magazine archive. Includes publications throughout the U.S. and around the world. Updated daily.

SCHOLARLY SOURCES . . .

NOTE: Most of the databases at the Trexler Library website feature scholarly materials. Here are just a few examples:

JSTOR
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Databases A to Z
All peer-reviewed journals. Interdisciplinary.

Project Muse
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Databases A to Z
All peer-reviewed journals. Interdisciplinary.

ATLA Religion
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Databases A to Z
A subscription database. Mix of popular and scholarly. Standard index for religion studies. Includes some full text.

getting to the full text. . .

Once you have found the citation of a journal article you're interested in, click on the Get It link found next to the citation, or run a journal title search in Trexler Library's online catalog. ACCESS: Trexler Library website > catalog.

articles via interlibrary loan. . .

Journal articles not found in Trexler Library can be ordered on interlibrary loan.
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Interlibrary Loan

Can I search all the library databases and catalog together, in one search?

Most of the databases and the library catalog can be searched together in a new library search engine called Search Central found on the Trexler Library website. Most useful when working with narrow topics where you need everything that's available. Several search features are missing from the original databases, like relevance, and language and peer review limiters.

Citing sources

For tips on citing print and electronic sources, visit Trexler Library's Citation Guides for Print and Electronic Resources. ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Citation Guides.

For help in writing annotated bibliographies, visit Purdue's Online Writing Lab (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/) for a definition of an annotation and samples using APA and MLA styles.

For automated citation, try the shareware Zotero (http://www.zotero.org/).