Literary Research and the American Modernist Era: Strategies and Sources

Chapters include basics of online catalog searching, use of standard print and electronic bibliographies (such as Modern Language Association's International Bibliography database, MLAIB), locating articles in scholarly journals as well as newspapers, tracking down archives, judicious use of Web resources, and a difficult (or "thorny") research question. Screen shots of the Washington State University Library catalog (from Innovative Interfaces) are also provided, and the pros and cons of keyword searching versus subject searching in online catalogs are explored, touching on synonyms and the consideration of having to use culturally insensitive terms to find material from early years.