Reference Project for a course titled "Online Searching". The final project required providing reference services to faculty clients.

2.  How do the residents of select port cities view their
social production of space in relation to the
waterscapes around them?
 Waterscapes as Liminal Spaces
 What is the relationship between Liminal Spaces and
Violence?

3.  Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
 Buenos Aires, Argentina

4. :
 Crime Statistics in Key Port Cities.
 All Anthropological Sources of the 2 Port Cities.
 All Geography Sources of the 2 Port Cities.
 National Water Management Laws in the two countries since
2006.
 Any Political Structures that have arisen in response to recent
changes in Water Management Laws.
 Liminal Spaces and Danger.
 Any information on the Assassination of Antonio Conceição Reis
(July 9, 2007)
 Any information on the symbolic or ritual dimension of Salvador
da Bahia; specifically, sources which discuss Yemanjá
(Iemanjá), goddess of the sea

5.  Searched Anthropology Plus, AnthroSource, and IBSS for
Anthropology Sources
 Searched Geography Compass and World News Digest for
Geography sources.
 Search Strategy involved searching for information on the
Port Cities:
 Salvador da Bahia required searching (Salvador) AND (Bahia
or Brazil), in order to eliminate retrieved records about El
Salvador.
 Buenos Aires did not require limiters, but I sometimes used
Argentina as an addition.
 Keyword searches were helpful, but Descriptor searches
retrieved more relevant results.

6.  Searched Anthropology Plus, AnthroSource, and IBSS for
sources on the social production of space, specifically Liminal
Space.
Searched Waterscapes as Liminal Spaces
Searched (limin? w/2 space) AND (water OR river OR creek OR lake OR
beach OR pond OR swamp OR marsh OR ditch OR canal). Note:
usually any combination of the previous synonyms for waterscapes.
Searched Liminal Spaces and Violence
Searched (limin? w/2 space) AND (violence OR danger OR rape OR
robbery OR assault OR murder)
Performed a citation search of Lefevbra (1968) to see who has cited this
work. Hoped to cross-reference descriptors of those works with
descriptors relevant to this study.

7.  Searched Anthropology
Plus, AnthroSource, WorldCat, and IBSS for
relevant information.
 Search strategy included keyword searches of:
 Yemanjá OR Iemanjá OR Janaína (Synonyms
courtesy of Wikipedia.org)

8.  Searched A Tarde online (the local newspaper of
Salvador da Bahia).
 Portuguese with no English translation.
 (WordReference.com offers free online translators.)
 The search engine searched keywords, individually.
 So many results which came up, were not relevant.

9.  Water Management Law since 2006.
 Political Structures that have been created in response
to water laws.
 Crime Statistics local to port cities.

10.  Each resource was downloaded into EndNote.
 In the “Research notes” field, I included where the
source was found, on what date, as well as the exact
search strategy which retrieved it.
 Each resource was grouped into a custom group which
identified which aspect of this study is addressed by this
particular resource.