AWR Research

• Read your assigned footnotes and accompanying text
  • Footnotes are often divided into ranges
  • You may have to read some parts of the article outside your range

• Organize yourself (i.e. create a spreadsheet with an entry for each source, or just look through all of your footnotes and determine which are books, which are articles, which are available online and which are not, etc.)
• Locate and pull sources

Organize yourself before you begin pulling sources. 

Journals should have a central spreadsheet for each article that members can consult.  The spreadsheet should have an entry for each source in each footnote.   This way, if a source is cited in multiple footnotes, and the footnotes are assigned to different members, it will be immediately evident.

Journal members can also create individual spreadsheets for their assigned footnotes. The column headings in this spreadsheet may include Footnote Number, Author, Title, Source (&Date), Call No./URL, Current Location, etc.  Once such a spreadsheet is completed, it can be sorted in a number of ways to save time during the process of pulling the sources. If you have a large number of footnotes/sources that you are responsible for, you can save time by grouping like resources together. If you pull all the cases at one time, then pull all the articles next, and then locate all the books, you will be using your time more efficiently! 

You can also check the central spreadsheet to see if the source has already been requested. See Library Primer for Journal Students.