Library Assignments for "Understanding Memory:
The Story of Our Lives" (ISF, Summer 2002)

Week One
You will need to find memory-evoking materials in three different formats. Places to look:
The Kent Cooper Room (Main Library, Ground Floor)
  • Look at the Video Browsing collection, or search IUCAT for movies that came out when you were a child. (How do I do that?)
  • Visit the Microfilm area. See if you can find your hometown newspaper and look at old issues. (How do I find that?)
The Reference Reading Room (Main Library, Research Collections, First Floor).
  • Look at American Decades, volume 10 (call number is E169.12 .A419). Browse the encyclopedia area (call numbers start with AE) for annual publications that recap the important events of the year.
The Research Collections Stacks
  • Go to the 4th floor and look at old issues of popular magazines (call numbers start with AP).

Week Two
You will be writing an essay on one of this week's readings. To enhance your understanding of the reading and improve your essay, you will need to find supporting materials in the library.
If you choose The memory palace of Matteo Ricci, find a recent article about one of the psychological concepts discussed in this chapter. (How do I find that?)
If you choose The things they carried : find a newspaper or magazine article published during the war in Vietnam that reports on an event described by O'Brien. (How do I find that?)
If you choose Under a cruel star: find a scholarly book or article about an event or situation described by Kovály. (How do I find that?)
If you choose "Image as memorial": watch the original footage of one or more of the three events analyzed in the article. (How do I find that?)

Week Three
You will be writing an essay about Freud or Plato.
If you choose Freud, read a case study in which memory is used therapeutically. (How do I find that?)
If you choose Plato, find other discusssions of memory in Plato's work. (How do I find those?)
August 6, 2002

Celestina Wroth ( cewroth@indiana.edu)
Librarian for History, Religious Studies,
and History & Philosophy of Science
Main Library E560, Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405, (812) 855-1336