CHABOT LIBRARY
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Resources Available at the Library: English 101A (MacKenzie)

Library Home page: http://www.chabotcollege.edu/library/

Search Strategy Handout: http://tinyurl.com/6zja3

Subject Headings 

For Civil Liberties, Use Civil Rights

Sometimes instead of searching by keywords, you may have better luck finding materials by consulting the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH).  This is important because you can sometimes get better search results.  For example, articles, books, and web sites on Civil Liberties will usually be indexed under “Civil Rights."  To browse such headings, they are in the five thick red volumes on the reference shelves, on the left side of the reference desk.

When Finding Books or Articles on Persons: Biographies

To find books about the person, enter the person’s name in the Library Catalog or database.  If you get lots of results, or get lots of books by a person, but NOT about a person, enter the person’s last name, then first name.  Such as:

Williams, Stanley

Library Catalog—Finding Books and Videos: http://tinyurl.com/8mo5z

Search the library catalog for books related to a topic of your interest. Select a topic and create a search statement. Find a book and then its call number.

Searching the Catalog:  Make sure words or phrase is selected underneath Search For and narrow your search down to Chabot College if you only want to find books available at Chabot.  Combine different terms such as: united states AND iraq or cloning AND religion.   . enter your terms with AND in between and then click on  the search button.

See Your Search Strategy for more information on phrasing a search statement.

Library Catalog Screen Capture

Library Subscription Databases: http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/abby/dblist.html.  —To find articles related to your topic that originally appeared in magazines, journals, and newspapers.  Originally published in print form.

Mainly Magazines and Journals

Mainly Newspapers

EbscoHost Academic Search Elite
A multi-subject database, covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, and much more!   Tutorial available at:
 http://tinyurl.com/58ysq

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Search “Quick News Search” for articles from the last two years.  For older articles, search in “General News Search.” 


ProQuest Diversity Databases
Alt-PressWatch, Ethnic NewsWatch, and GenderWatch.  

Issues & Controversies
Get pro/con overviews on controversial topics, often related to current events.  Especially good for argumentative speeches.

 

Reference (Books and Web sites)

CQ Researcher

Reference: H35 .E35 1991  Index at reference desk.
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture


Reference:  E169.1 .S764 2000

Current Biography Yearbook

Reference: CT100 .C8

Biography Index

Reference: Z5301 .B5

Biography Resource Center
 (You need to have a library card from Alameda County Library to search this one.  If you do not have one, we recommend you get one at your local Alameda County library branch.)


http://tinyurl.com/bykhk

Contemporary Black Biography

Reference: E185.96 .C66

Chabot Library’s Biographical Works page

http://tinyurl.com/bsmrd

Countries and Their Cultures

Reference: GN307 .C68 2001

Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America

Reference: E184.A1 G14 1995

Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia

Reference: QL7 .G7813 2004

Facts on File Issues & Controversies

http://tinyurl.com/6ft8u
Pros and Cons web page


http://tinyurl.com/col66
Portals of the World


http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html
Resources By Subject


http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/subjectindex/

Web Resources

Use Web search engines (such as Google) last for your research, and if you do, be prepared to evaluate web sites with a very skeptical eye. Anybody can put anything on the web, and if you do not pay attention, you could be linking very questionable or misinformed sites.   The Library has an effective web evaluation checklist available at: http://www.chabotcollege.edu!Library/abby/evaluation.html 

World Wide Web: Academic Searching
http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/handouts/metasites.pdf

Librarians’ Index to the Internet
     http://lii.org

INFOMINE
     http://infomine.ucr.edu/

Online Subject Index http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/abby/dbsbysubject.html

Scout Report Archives
     http://scout.wisc.edu/Archives/

Academic Info
      http://www.academicinfo.us/

Virtual Learning Resources Center     http://www.virtuallrc.com/

World Wide Web: General Searching
http://tinyurl.com/4ekxp

SearchGov
     http://www.searchgov.com/

SearchEDU
     http://www.searchedu.com

Google (limiting to .org)
     http://tinyurl.com/6yrp9

About
     http://www.about.com/

Google (limiting to PDF format)
     http://tinyurl.com/5f294