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StyleCat
 Online Catalog:
Searching tips
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Start
with a word or phrase that describes your topic and search
in "Basic Keyword Search"
(e.g. Brooklyn Bridge;
Bloomingdales)
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Click on the title of any item that looks relevant, scroll
down to the part of the page called "subject". See if there are
other words that describe your topic (e.g. if you tried
'Grand Central Station', note that 'Grand
Central Terminal' is the subject heading) and search
again using those subjects to find more listings.
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Search
broader terms as necessary (e.g. bridges New York; stores New
York; shopping New York).
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Often you will
need to try more than one subject heading or different ways
of phrasing the same topic (e.g. apartment houses, architecture,
historic buildings); speak to a Reference Librarian if you’re
having trouble with the wording.
Some possible
subject headings:
(Note:
Remove ALL
punctuation when using these or any other subject headings in
StyleCat
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Person,
place, thing, event, concept -- past or
present.
Afro-American Burial Ground
New York NY
Apartment houses New York NY
Architecture New York NY
Asian Americans New York State Social life and customs
B. Altman &
Co
Broadway New York
NY History
Bronx New York NY History
Brooklyn Bridge New York
NY
Buildings New York NY
Clothing trade New York NY
Clothing
workers New York NY
Draft Riot New York NY
1863
Hip-hop New York State
Historic buildings New York NY
New York NY Buildings structures
etc Pictorial works.
New York NY Stores shopping centers etc
Shopping New York NY Guidebooks
Stores Retail
New York NY Directories
(and many more...)
Instead of 'New
York City', you need to use 'New York NY', and you can add a
subheading, for example:
New York NY Civilization
New York NY Description and
travel
New York NY Dictionaries
New York NY Encyclopedias
New York NY
Guidebooks
New York NY History
New York NY Pictorial works
New York NY Social
conditions
New York NY Social life and customs
New York
NY Tours
Some useful
titles:
The
Encyclopedia of New York City. New Haven : Yale University
Press, 1995.
Reference Stacks F128.3 .E75 1995
Homberger,
Eric. The Historical Atlas of New York City : A
Visual Celebration of nearly 400 Years of New York City’s
History. New York : Holt, 2005.
Reference
Stacks F128.3 .H65 2005
For
creative depictions, try the following subject heading searches
in StyleCat:
[specific place] in art
[specific
place] in literature
[specific place] in motion
pictures
[specific place] Fiction
[specific place]
Poetry
[specific place] Pictorial works
[specific
place] Drama
[specific place] Comic books, strips,
etc.
For example:
Brooklyn Bridge in art, Coney Island fiction, New York in motion
pictures.
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Suggested
databases:
Custom Newspapers (includes New
York Daily News, New York Post, New York Times)
General OneFile
MasterFILE Premier
New York Times Historical
Gale Virtual Reference Library (online
encyclopedias, handbooks, etc):
Searches across a collection of
full-text online books such as
Dictionary of American
History
Encyclopedia of Recreation and
Leisure in America
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular
Culture
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