English and American Literatures Librarian
Welcome!
Welcome to the course guide for GEN ED 1186: The Age of Anxiety, Fall 2025, with Professor Beth Blum. This guide will help you navigate HOLLIS, the library catalog, to make research for your final assignment less anxiety-inducing! If you have any questions, please contact me or any Harvard librarian!
Library Links
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HOLLISHOLLIS is Harvard University Libraries' online catalog and provides information about books, articles, and other resources. This is typically the best place to start your research.
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Ask a LibrarianThe librarians at Harvard are here to help you! If you would like to chat with a librarian, set up an appointment, or find a subject specialist, click on this link.
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Newspaper Subscriptions through HarvardThis page includes links to four publications you can create individual accounts for (New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times). Also includes information on accessing newspapers through HOLLIS.
General Research Tips
- Generate a list of your search terms and any synonyms.
- Sign in to HOLLIS to get the most complete results and to pin resources and searches.
- Search for each term in HOLLIS or databases.
- If searching for a phrase, use quotation marks around the phrase.
- Use the filters on the right side of HOLLIS to narrow language, date, and resource type.
- When you find a promising resource, click on the record for it and look at the Subjects that are listed. Those are the terms HOLLIS uses in its catalog.
- Look at the footnotes and references in scholarly articles - they can lead you to related sources.
- The first resources you find may not be the best. Keep looking!
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