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To find books, periodicals, manuscripts, videos, etc., on a topic in HOLLIS, put in likely keywords and choose Library Catalog.  Look at pertinent records and find the terms under Subject. For example, searching progressive era race yields

The men and women we want : gender, race, and the progressive era literacy test debate, by Jeanne D. Petit. Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2010, 201 p.
Subjects
Literacy -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Literacy -- Ability testing -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Immigrants -- Education -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Progressivism (United States politics)
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.
HOLLIS Record

Under Refine my results: Subject on the right of the results list there are more main terms (Racism; Race relations) to try, but not the terms after the dashes ( -- Social aspects) which are called subdivisions.  NOTE: If you hit one of the terms in this Subject list, HOLLIS will find records with the term, say  "Women's rights", only on records in the set originally formed by searching progressive era race.

Redo your search using the terms that HOLLIS uses.    Also, go to Starts with.../Browse (top black band) and put in Progressivism (United States politics), adjusting to Browse by Subject.  This is very useful in breaking down a large subject and in giving you more subdivisions, which can be applied to other Subject terms, to search.  Thus:

  • United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
  • African American children -- Education -- Social aspects

Whenever you have a reference to a useful book, look it up in HOLLIS and see what the Subject terms are.

Any pertinent book published during your era may be a primary source, but certain kinds of primary sources, including originally unpublished sources such as letters and diaries published later, have particular terms attached to their Subject terms in a HOLLIS record.  Change Any field to Subject for cleanest results.

  • --Archives
  • --Correspondence
  • --Description and travel
  • --Diaries
  • --Manuscripts
  • --Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
  • --Personal narratives (refers to accounts of wars and diseases only)
  • --Sources (usually refers to collections of published primary sources)

Example:
Immigrants "united states"
AND
Archives OR Correspondence OR Diaries OR Manuscripts OR Sources OR Narratives (as Subject)

When you find a pertinent book, go to Starts With.../Browse and put in the call number, adjusting the menu to Library of Congress (Wid-LC) or Other. This shows you other books on the same subject, even though they may be in storage or checked out.

Search Tips

  • Use quotes "" to keep words together as a phrase, thus "shell shock" rather than shell shock which is searched as shell AND shock
  • Use Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) to do complex searches: e.g., (“electronic surveillance” OR eavesdropping) AND privacy.
    • Note that OR and AND must be in caps. 
  • Find all forms of a word with wildcards. ? matches a single character and * matches multiple characters: e.g., feminis?; gene* therapy
    • Note: Phrase searches cannot include wildcards, and you cannot use a wildcard at the beginning of a word).

See the Library Research Guide for History and the HOLLIS Help guide for more information on searching HOLLIS.