EDU 251: Children's Literature: Search Tips

Try an Advanced Search in WorldCat  using keywords from these Subject headings:

Useful Subject Headings:

• Women in literature
• Sexism in literature
• Feminism Fiction
• Feminist fiction
• Fairy tales
• Children's literature
• Children's stories
• Juvenile literature
• Juvenile fiction

AND finds all terms

OR finds either term

fem* finds female, feminist, feminism

mt: juv finds juvenile/children's books (mt= main target audience is juvenile)

Inter-library Loans (ILL): How much does it cost?

Students:

• ILL books are free if available in a Canadian library
• ILL articles are $3.00 each

Faculty:

• no charge for ILL requests

Retired faculty:

• allowed 5 free requests per year
• If more  than 5 are needed, the requester will be responsible for any fees involved.

How Long do they Take?

• allow two weeks from when you submit the ILL order, but sometimes they come sooner

Further information (how to make a request) is available here.

From the Library Databases page, go to EBSCOhost  and select EBSCOhost Web.  Then choose your database(s). Try the following search:

On the library website, go to the Databases page and select  your database. Then try the following search: