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FILM 335: Culture and Technology

Finding Books

Search Omni to find books and other materials owned by the Library.  You can search by keywords, author, title or subject headings. Apply filters to fine-tune your search results e.g. Books & eBooks.  Filters are located on the left hand side of the Omni search page, after you have performed a search. 

To find a specific known item, search by title or author.  To find books on a topic, either try a subject or keyword search.

Subject Headings versus Keyword Searching

Subject headings allow you to search for resources on a particular author or topic and are often more productive than keyword searches. 

Keyword searches work best if you have multiple concepts or topics and need only a few books. 

For a comprehensive subject search, search with subject headings as well as keywords.

Searching Omni

Start with a keyword search, but expect to revise it. 

Keyword Searching TIPS

Search Technique  

What It Does

quotation marks

Searches for exact phrase

Truncation *

Searches for all forms of a word

Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT)

Lets you broaden or narrow your search

 

Keyword Searching

Use a keyword search if you have multiple concepts or topics. Browse your results to find the assigned subject headings in order to find more books on your topic.  

Think of the focus (or key) words that describe your topic. For example: 

"new media" AND culture

Subject Searching

Subject headings allow you to search Omni for resources on a particular topic and are often more productive that keyword searches.

Examples of subject headings: 

Communication and culture
Digital media
Facebook (Electronic resources)
Internet
Internet Social aspects
Information society
Mass media
Media
Social network
Twitter
YouTube (Electronic resources)

More Subject Headings

Art and the internet
Computers and civilization
Digital divide
Digital storytelling
Human computer interaction
Interactive media
Internet advertising
Motion pictures in ethnology
Technological innovations
Technology and the arts
Technology Social aspects
User interface (Computer sytems)
Visual communication

 

Browsing the Library Shelves

Browsing the library shelves is another strategy for locating information on a topic. Most books related to Film  and Media Studies are located in the call number range PN1990 - PN1999 on the 4th floor of Stauffer Library.
 
Use the following call numbers as a guide.
 
CB478   Technology and society
GN347   Visual anthropology,
               motion pictures
HM851   Information technology 
PN1990  Broadcasting
PN1991  Radio broadcasts
PN1992  Television broadcasts
PN1993  Motion pictures in general, by
               country
PN1994  Motion pictures laws,
               regulations...
PN1995  Motion pictures - specific themes,
               topics 
and genres
PN1996  Screenwriting
PN1997  Screenplays
PN1998  Biographies of and works about
               directors,
producers,,,.
PN2287, PN2308, PN2329 
               Actors, actresses
T14.5      Impact of technology on modern
               society
TR          Photography, cinematography
Z5784     Bibliographies on film studies