North Eugene High School Library

Okay, the purpose of this exercise today is not only to get you some resources for your magazine project, but also to build some familiarity with the databases that we have here at northlibrary.com.

First off, whenever you are doing research on any topic, you want to learn the vocabulary and facts that surround an issue, that way if you must do some more in depth research, you can always use the words you find first to aid you in your search strings.

So, the first thing that you need to do is hit the “World Book” link over to your left and select “World Book Advanced.” Do your search, read your article and then look to your left and you will find other resources. Click those to read more about your topic.

You can also search “Enlightenment,” and it will bring you to the article that covers the whole period.

Now you can go back to Northlibrary.com and click on the Gale Virtual Reference database that searches all of the eBooks Gale and our library has to offer.  Here, you want to look at the Encyclopedia of religion.

You can also go onto the web and look for information, but after looking at the databases, you may realize it isn’t the best quality.

-M

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Your searches for this topic are going to be chaotic especially as you are looking at gender in the Olympics.

• Start with the World Book Article. It will give you some background data.
• Then try this records site.
• Check out this definition of gender inequality.
• Here is a fairly scholarly piece  on gender inequality.
• There is a discussion on co-ed curling here.

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