HST 390: Animals and Society: Secondary Sources: Books

Winter 2022, Dr. Molly Baer Kramer.

Important COVID Note

Finding Books in the Catalog

1) Begin in the Advanced Search screen of the PSU Library catalog. If you're looking for historical materials on a specific animal (ex. Cats) search their name and "History" as subjects.

2) In the results page, limit to Ebooks and books to weed out all the newspaper and journal articles.

3) Skim the remaining results for interesting materials.

4) If you find an interesting item, look at the record to see the subject headings.

5) Notice the subject heading Human-animal relationships -- History. This proves a useful search term:

6) If you still aren't finding result, try broader search combinations:

8) To narrow your results, add additional search terms:

9) Again, view the record of interesting items to find additional useful subject headings

 

Useful Subject Terms

Some useful Subject Searches

  • Human-animal Relationships -- History
  • [Animal] AND History
  • Animals AND History
  • [Animal] -- [Country] -- History -- 20th century
  • [Animal] -- [Country] -- History -- 19h century
  • [Animal] AND history

Note: In the bracket, add your animal and country of interest. Example:
Horses AND "United States" AND "history"