To find authentication sources for Out of the Dust in Evans Library, search in LibCat, our online catalog.

 1. Look at the subject headings in the LibCat record of the novel to find search terms:
             
                 LC Subject Heading(s):      Dust storms -- Fiction.
                                                         Farm life -- Oklahoma -- Fiction.
                                                         Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction.
                                                         Poetry -- Fiction.
                                                         Oklahoma -- Fiction.

 2. Select subject headings to use in additional searches:
                         Dust storms     Farm life          Oklahoma        Depressions

 3.  Access the Keyword Search screen and enter search terms:

          Dust storms                 match exact phrase               subject
          NOT
          Fiction                         match all words                       subject

         Search Results

          Depressions                 match all words                     subject
          AND
          Oklahoma                    match all words                       subject
          NOT
          Fiction                         match all words                       subject

         Depressions 1929         match all words                      subject
         NOT
         Fiction                         match all words                      subject

        Search Results

4. Look at the subject headings in the records of the titles in the results list to choose additional search terms. Then, try various combinations of search terms on the keyword search screen:

           Examples

           Dust bowl
           Droughts
           Rural families
           Dust Bowl Era
           Great Plains
           Migrant labor
           New Deal
           Farmers
           Frontier and pioneer life

Always with NOT fiction in the subject in the last search term box.

5. Or click on a relevant subject heading in one of the records:

6.  Enter an abbreviated subject heading on the Simple Search screen:

Enter Search Terms:                                                Choose a Search Type:
Depressions –1929—United States                          Subject headings browse

And scan headings:
   Depressions-1929-United States
   Depressions-1929-United States-Encyclopedias
   Depressions-1929-United States-Personal narratives
   Depressions-1929-United States-Pictorial works

OR

Dust storms                                                              Subject headings browse

And scan headings:
     Dust storms-Great Plains
     Dust storms-Great Plains-History-20^th century
     Dust storms-Oklahoma-Oklahoma Panhandle-History-20^th century
     Dust storms-Southwestern states

7. To expand your results, search subject terms as keywords.