Using HOLLIS

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 colleges China American yields:

New perspectives on Yenching University, 1916-1952: a liberal education for a new China, ed. by Arthur Lewis Rosenbaum. Leiden: Brill, 2012, 412 pages.
Subjects
Yanjing da xue -- History -- 20th century.
Christian universities and colleges -- China -- Beijing -- History.
Biculturalism -- China.
China -- Politics and government -- 1912-1949.
China -- Politics and government -- 1949-1976.
HOLLIS Record

Under Refine my results: Subject on the right of the results list there are more main terms (Education, Higher; Missions; Education and globalization) to try, but not the terms after the dashes ( -- Politics and government) which are called subdivisions. NOTE: If you hit one of the terms in this Subject list, HOLLIS will find records with the term, say  "Missions", only on records in the set originally formed by searching colleges China American.

Redo your search using the terms that HOLLIS uses.    Also, go to Starts with.../Browse (top black band) and put in China Politics and government 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. 

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book published during your era may be a primary source, but certain kinds of primary sources, including originally unpublished sources such as letters and diaries published later, have particular terms attached to their Subject terms in a HOLLIS record.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:
Subject exact phrase: United States
and
Subject exact phrase: China foreign relations
AND
Subject contains: Archives OR Correspondence OR Diaries OR Manuscripts OR Sources OR Narratives

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.

Translations

In HOLLIS Advanced Search do searches of the form:

Example:
Subject exact phrase: United States
and
Subject exact phrase: Foreign relations
AND
Keyword anywhere contains: Chinese translat*

  • Limit to English
  • Translat* yields both translated and translation
  • This search is not exhaustive.  Where you have a particular Chinese work, do a Title exact phrase search, limiting to English
  • There will be some non-translations mixed in

Searching within All English-language Works Published in a Country

In HOLLIS Library Catalog Advanced Search do searches of the form:

Keywords anywhere contains: Petroleum OR oil
AND
Code: MARC place of publication: cc    [Code: MARC place of publication is toward the bottom of the search menu. cc=China]

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

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