• pick one of the topics listed on the assignment handout
• identify, summarize, and assess the usefulness of at least 9 sources about the topic
• annotations should include an explanation of the source's thesis, methodology, and main conclusion
• annotations should be 1 or 2 paragraphs in length
• assignment should begin by explaining the scope of chosen topic
• annotated bibliography must follow MLA style formatting
  
  

• Books in Miller Library:
  
  
  • Reference:
    
    
    • Online:
      
      • The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
      • The Oxford Dictionary of Art Online
      • The Oxford Dictionary of Music & Musicians Online
      • The Oxford Companion to American Literature
      • The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
      • The Oxford Companion to Music
      • The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English
      • The Oxford Dictionary of Art
      • Index to Gale's Literary Criticism series makes it easy to find the right volumes you want from their hundreds of volumes of literary criticism
        
        
    • Print:
      
      • African American Writers
      • Black American Writers Past and Present
      • Black Literature Criticism : excerpts from criticism of the most significant works of Black authors over the past 200 years
      • Black Writers : A Selection Of Sketches From Contemporary Authors
      • Early Black American Playwrights and Dramatic Writers
      • The Oxford Companion to African American Literature
      
      
• Books in the main collection:
  
  
  • Subject search, uses Library of Congress subject headings, e.g.:
    
    
    • Afro Americans -- Drama
    • Fauset, Jessie Redman
    • Garvey, Marcus 1887-1940
    • Harlem Renaissance
    • Hughes, Langston
      
      
  • keyWord search, searches the title, contents, series, etc.:
    
    
    • Brown, Sterling
    • Harlem Renaissance
    • Hughes, Langston
      
      
  • Author search
    
    
    • e.g., Hughes, Langston
  
  
• Books outside Miller Library:
  
  
  • Other libraries:
    
    • U of MD libraries
    • U of DE library
    • Library of Congress
      
      
  • WorldCat
    • most distinguished database of catalogued books in the world
    • searches over 52 million records held by academic libraries worldwide
      
      
  • For books not in the library, order through Interlibrary Loan
    • free, online order form, budget 2-4 weeks

• Academic Search Premier
  • 4,500+ general and academic journals
  • coverage 1985+
  • mostly full-text
    
    
• Black Drama - 1850 to the Present
  • full-text of 1,200 plays written by more than 100 from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries
  • each play is extensively and deeply indexed, allowing both keyword and multi-fielded searching
  • plays are accompanied by reference materials, significant ancillary information, a rich performance database, and images
  • collection includes musical comedies, domestic dramas, folk dramas, history plays, anti-slavery plays, one-act plays, and other works
    
    
• Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
  • monographs, essays, articles, letters, speeches and interviews written by leaders within the black community
  • intended for research in black studies, political science, American history, music, literature, and art
  • fully searchable
  • full-text
    
    
• JSTOR
  • 440+ scholarly journals
  • complete run of all journals except for the most recent 3-5 years
  • full-text
    
    
• Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography
  • the professional index in literature, language, & linguistics
  • indexes books, journals, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies
  • citation-only
  • coverage from 1963+
  
  
• Project MUSE
  • 250+ scholarly journals
  • coverage from 1983+
  • mostly full-text
  
  
• WilsonWeb
  • 3,500+ general and academic journals
  • three components: ERIC; OmniFile Full Text Mega; Humanities & Social Sci Retro
  • ERIC: sponsored by U.S. Department of Educaton, indexing begins in 1966
  • OmniFile Full Text Mega: indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text in 1994
  • Humanities & Social Sci Retro: index only, 1907-1984
  • 1,750 journals are full-text
    
    
    
• Check journal titles in Journal Finder, the library's list of full-text electronic periodicals
  
  
• For articles not in the library, order through Interlibrary Loan
  • free, online order form, budget 2-4 weeks

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• New York Times (1851-2005)
  • the complete newspaper (text, graphs, photos, etc.) in digital form

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• Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro (UVa)
  • A Hypermedia Edition of the March 1925 Survey Graphic Harlem issue
• Harlem, 1900-1940: An African-American Community (Schomburg Center)
• The Harlem Renaissance: A Brief Introduction (Perspectives in American Literature)
  

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• Hacker Online
  • formatting examples , including MLA
    
    
• Annotated Bibliographies
  • info from Purdue