Harold B. Lee Library

Homework Helper–Finding Social Studies Books & Websites

October 5, 2009

To find books in the Juvenile Literature Collection on social studies topics:

1. Open the HBLL homepage.
2. Select “Library Catalog” under Unique Collections at BYU
3. Below the main search bar choose “Advanced Keyword Search”
4. Go to the pull-down menu labeled search all and type in a term that represents the subject of your search, such as “World War II.” If you are looking for both fiction and non-fiction books go to the pull-down menu labeled location and select Juvenile Collection. Search. The newer books will be listed first.
5. Display the details for at least one item to find the official subject terms for your search. For World War II, the subject term is “World War, 1939-1945.” Use this term to refine your search.
6. To limit your search to fictional books, go to the pull-down menu labeled subject and type “Juvenile fiction.” Search.
7. To limit your search to non-fiction books, go to the pull-down menu labeled subject and type “Juvenile literature.” Search.

To find websites on social studies topics:

1. Search the following search engines that are designed for use by young people using a term that represents the subject of your search:

Quintura for Kids

• Intended for use by children grades K-6.
• Quintura is a filtered search engine based on the Yahoo! Kids search engine but with an innovative visual mind map browsing capability.

Ask for Kids

• Intended for use by children in grades K-6.
• Ask for Kids is a filtered web search engine associated with Ask.com. All websites accessible through the search engine are selected by editors on the criteria of appropriateness, depth, quality, and style.

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