The Bullis School, Main Number: 301-299-8500

NoodleBib

For your MLA Works Cited page. Bullis has an institutional account, but you will need to set up your own personal account. Instructions and tips in blue section at bottom of this page. Password to Bullis account is on Mrs. Lowry's teacher page, below. (NoodleTools)

Citing Sources

Examples of MLA citations. (Bullis)

Subscription Databases at Bullis

The complete list. Passwords are on Mrs. Lowry's teacher page. (Bullis)

Bullis Passwords On Mrs. Lowry's Teacher Page

Link to passwords page is in blue menu bar at left. (Bullis)

• Go to Destiny, the library's online catalog, and construct a Boolean search expression (see pink box, above right).
• A Keyword search will locate your keywords anywhere in the record (title, description, subject listings): george AND washington
• A Subject search is like a tagged picture in facebook -- a librarian has tagged this book with the keywords you enter in the search box: washington. (Make sure to select the Browse tab on the screen that follows.)
• Call numbers beginning with J are in the Lower School Library.
• Call numbers beginning with "BIO" are biographies and are shelved separately, to the right of the reference section.

• To find an encyclopedia article about your person, go to Destiny and conduct a Keyword search using one of these Boolean expression:
  encyclopedia AND biograph*     encyclopedia AND america*
     
• For general biographical encyclopedias, go to the REF 920 area of the reference section.

Encyclopedia Britannica Online

 

Encyclopedia Americana

Enter your person's name in the top search box; does NOT accept Boolean operators.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Conduct a basic search -- enter 2 or 3 search terms.

U.S. History Resource Center

Use the tabs across the top to locate different types of sources.

ProQuest Platinum

NOTE how the list is arranged; used drop-down menu on right to change it. Use tabs at top to limit resource type.

The library has several examples on the Bullis website:
Bullis  >  Academics  >  Library  >  Citing Sources

1. Set up a personal account for yourself in NoodleTools.
2. Select NoodleBib for the Works Cited template.
3. You are going to use the MLA Starter option, so when you get to this page:
        
   select this option:
        
   
4. The title of the next screen is Works Cited. If you are using a library resource, either a book that you can hold in your hands or an article that you found in a subscription database, then you MUST select an option from the highlighted part of the drop-down menu:
        
   Then, on the screen that follows, you can select "Print" if it is a book or periodical that you are holding in your hands, or "Online" if it is digitized content from a book or periodical that you accessed with a web browser:
        
   The remaining screens are intuitive and straightforward.

Try limiting your Google search to reputable websites by limiting your search to specific domains. In front of your search terms, add the following text:

site:edu      site:gov      site:org

Some examples:

site:edu mary mcleod bethune
site:gov j edgar hoover
site:org sandra day o'connor

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress: 1774 to present

 

American Memory

Digitized material from America's attic, the Library of Congress.

Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

 

National Public Radio (NPR)

It helps to use quotation marks around phrases when searching this site. These will be audio files, not text.