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- Corliss Lee
- Office Hours: By Appointment
- Contact Info:
510-768-7899
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Looking for a location in Doe, Main Stacks or Moffitt? Try the floorplans, or ask for assistance!
The UCB Library sponsors the Library Prize for Undergraduate Research. Win $1000 (upper division students) or $750 (lower division students) for your research paper!
These are just a few examples of reference sources available in the UCB Libraries. Click on the title to see the OskiCat record for each title and note the library location and call number of the item.
ABC-Clio Companion to the 1960s Counterculture in America
The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s
Underground Press Collection - guide
Items listed as being in the "Doe Reference Hall" are on the 2nd floor of Doe Library, in the same hall as the reference desk.
Items listed as being in "Doe Reference" are on the 2nd floor of Doe Library, in the North Reading Room.
Before digital storage became easy and cheap, microfilm was a way for libraries to maintain large collections of newspapers, government documents, and historical documents while saving physical storage space. The UC Berkeley Libraries still have extensive microform (microfilm and microfiche) collections, containing valuable information for researchers.
Since each roll of microfilm contains thousands of tiny images of the original pages of a document, you'll need a microfilm reader to magnify the images enough to read them. The UC Berkeley Newspapers and Microforms Department (40 Doe Library) has machines that read, print, and scan images from microfilm and microfiche.
Microfilm and microfiche owned by the UC Berkeley Libraries can be found through OskiCat; use Advanced Keyword Search to limit your search to "All Microforms." In the News/Micro collection, microfilm rolls and microfiche cards are shelved with their own numbering system; click here for a PDF of the collection's floorplan.
If the library location in OskiCat says "Newspapers and Microforms" it is referring to the Newspapers and Microforms Collection, 40 Doe Library.
To get there, enter the north entrance of Doe Library (the side facing Memorial Glade and the East Asian Library). Walk straight ahead until you reach the marble stairs; do NOT take the stairs, but instead turn right and go down the hall until you see stairs to the basement. (There is an elevator around the corner). Once you go down the stairs or elevator, the entrance to the Newspapers and Microforms collection should be directly in front of you.
Floor plan of Doe Library, 1st floor | Floor plan of Doe Library basement
The collection's hours are 10-7 M-Th, 10-5 on Fridays. The collection is not open on weekends, and microfilm cannot be checked out.
There are a limited number of machines -- please plan ahead! Be sure to bring a flash drive so you can save scanned copies of the microfilm to your disk. Scanning is free, but printing from the microfilm reader/printers is 10 cents a page. You MUST use your Cal1 card to pay for printing.
In the News/Micro collection, microfilm rolls and microfiche cards are shelved with their own numbering system; click here for a PDF of the collection's floorplan.
Don't hesitate to ask for help! The News/Micro staff are experts in the use of the machines.
Follow these links to the OskiCat records for collections of Underground Newspapers relevant to your research.
Underground newspaper collection
Guide is shelved with the "Microfilm Guides" in the Newspaper Room as MICROFILM 77553 guide
another copy of the Guide is in the Doe Reference Room, call number AP1.26 .U5
Hoover Institution supplement to the Underground newspaper collection
Guide is shelved with the "Microfilm Guides" in the Newspaper Room as MICROFILM 53043 guide
UMC Library underground newspapers collection
Guide is shelved with the "Microfilm Guides" in the Newspaper Room as MICROFILM 53044 guide
Individual titles may also be searched by title in OskiCat. Searching newspaper titles in OskiCat: The Movie! (40 seconds)
San Francisco Oracle (the original)
San Francisco Oracle (the facsimile)
San Francisco Oracle (the CD-Rom)
Black Panther (microfilm in the Newspaper Room, The Real Thing at the Bancroft)
Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives (library database)
Browse the list of underground newspapers available
You can save images from microfilm or microfiche to your flashdrive, in pdf or tiff format. You can use the scanning process to improve, crop or otherwise adjust the image-- very useful for old, scratched microfilm.
How to scan microfilm to a flash drive (note: updated instructions coming soon)
You do NOT need to use any of these, but just for your information, there are lots of other primary sources on this topic at the UC Berkeley Libraries. These are just a few examples
Social Protest Collection - The Bancroft Library
(this is the finding aid, or guide to the collection; you have to use the collection at the library)
Eldridge Cleaver Papers - The Bancroft Library
(this is the finding aid, or guide to the collection; you have to use the collection at the library)
Haight Ashbury in the Sixties - CD-Rom
These are just a few of the databases that lead you to primary sources. For a more complete list of primary source databases in American History, go here.
For fun - just one aspect of UC Berkeley's involvement in the political activity of the Sixties
Free Speech Movement Digital Archive (Bancroft Library)
Free Speech Movement - Media at the Media Resources Center
Free Speech Movement - -photos online
The UCB Library Guide to Citing Your Sources discusses why you should cite your sources and links to campus resources about plagiarism. It also includes links to guides for frequently used citation styles. Also:
Citation management tools help you manage your research, collect and cite sources, and create bibliographies in a variety of citation styles. Each one has its strengths and weaknesses, but any are easier than doing it by hand!
Zotero: A free plug-in that works exclusively with the Firefox browser: keeps copies of what you find on the web, permits tagging, notation, full text searching of your library of resources, works with Word, and has a free web backup service.
RefWorks - free for UC Berkeley users. It allows you to create your own database by importing references and using them for footnotes and bibliographies. Use the RefWorks New User Form to sign up. Refworks Help is pretty good.
How to link from the Refworks record to a pdf on your hard drive
Exporting from OskiCat to Refworks
EndNote: may be purchased from UC Berkeley's Software Central. The Library's Guide to EndNote. And more Tips from EndNote.
It's always good to double check the formatting -- sometimes the software doesn't get it quite right.
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Research Advisory Service for Cal Undergraduates
Book a 30-minute appointment with a librarian who will help refine and focus research inquiries, identify useful online and print sources, and develop search strategies for humanities and social sciences topics (examples of research topics).
Schedule, view, edit or cancel your appointment online (CalNetID required)
This service is for Cal undergraduates only. Graduate students and faculty should contact the library liaison to their department or program for specialized reference consultations.
Other ways to get help: in person, by e-mail, using specialized chat services
And of course: e-mail Corliss or email Theresa (Bancroft Library)
Please take a few minutes to give me some feedback about the library workshop and this course page! Anonymously, of course.
