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Finding Resources Related to Issues in Nickel and Dimed

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

Search Strategy Handout: http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/handouts/Eng1A/strategy.html

Subject Headings

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 the "death penalty" will usually be indexed under "Capital Punishment."  To browse such headings, they are in the four thick red volumes on the left side of the reference desk.

Here’s some suggested headings (Note—some terms could be combined by country or region such as "United States" or California. Example: "Poverty and United States")

Poverty
Poor
Economic Conditions
Minimum Wage
Homelessness

Unskilled Labor
Labor and Laboring Classes
Hours of Labor
Working Class
Social Classes

Economic History
Public Welfare
Welfare Recipients—Employment
Unemployment
Economic Assistance, Domestic

Immigrants
Single Parents
Single Mothers
Single-Parent Families
Homeless Persons

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://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/handouts/ebscohosthandout.html

Alt-PressWatch
Full text articles to many alternative newspapers, newsletters, magazines, and peer-reviewed journals. 

GenderWatch
Full text database of peer-reviewed journals, magazines, newsletters, and books  that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Mostly full-text articles from hundreds of newspapers, transcripts from many news programs, and other news resources from all over the world. Search "Quick News Search" for articles from the last two years. For older articles, search in "General News Search." On campus only.

Project MUSE
Scholarly journal articles in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Full text is on campus only.

Ethnic NewsWatch
Contains newspapers, magazines, and journals from the ethnic, minority and native press. 

 

Pamphlet Files— At the Library, we have several filing cabinets of articles and documents to many topics.  Use the Card catalog that rests on TOP of the filing cabinet, and search by Library of Congress Subject Headings.  Then find the folder that has the articles/documents related to your topic.  You can check out up to five articles/pamphlets at the Check Out Desk.

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Reference/Statistical Sources (Books, Databases and Web sites)

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Reference Desk

CQ Researcher

Index at Ref. Desk. Reference: H35 E35

Facts on File Issues & Controversies

http://www.2Facts on File/ICOF/icof-main.asp

Statistical Abstract of the United States

Reference Desk: HA202 U58 S7 2002

Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics

Reference: HD8051 H36 2001

Statistical Resources on the Web

http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/frames/statsfr.html

Poverty Statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty.html

Statistical Handbook of Working America

Refernce Desk: HD8064 S73 1997

Statistical Record of Women WorldWide

Reference Desk: HA205 W6 1995

Statistical Handbook on the American Family

Reference: HQ536 S727 1999

Poverty Guidelines, Research, and Measurement (from U.S. Government)

http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/poverty/

Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP)

http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp/

PovertyNet

http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/

National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP)

http://www.nccp.org/

Encyclopedia of Associations

Reference Desk: HS17 G334 2004

American Decades

Reference: E169.12 A4

Online Reference Shelf

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

Encyclopedia of Sociology

Reference: HM17 .E5 1992

West’s Encyclopedia of American Law

Reference: KF154 .W47 1998

Dictionary of American History

Reference: E174.D52 2003

International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family

Reference: HQ9 .E52 2003

St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture

Reference: E169.1 .S764 2000

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

How to Search the Library Catalog: http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/handouts/librarycatalog.html

Library of Congress Classification Handout: http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/handouts/lc.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://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/handouts/Eng1A/Transue.html#search

Evaluate the sites you find using the Web Evaluation Checklist:  http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/abby/evalution.html

SearchGov
http://www.searchgov.com/

SearchEDU
http://www.searchedu.com

Google (limiting to .org)
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:.org

About
http://www.about.com/

Map of Library: http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/abby/librarymap.html