Chabot College Library Resources: English 1A (Magallon) Finding Articles on Issues Related to Prisons and Prisoners, based on Jimmy Baca's book, A Place to Stand

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Finding Resources Related to Issues in A Place to Stand

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 "civil liberties" will usually be indexed under "civil rights." 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")

Prisoners
Ex-Convicts
Hispanic American Prisoners
African American Prisoners
Inmate Guards
Grievance Procedures for prisoners
Prisoners as Authors
Convict Labor

Civil Rights
Education
Social Conditions
Discrimination
Mental Health
Medical Care
Religious Life
Sexual Behavior

Prisons
Correctional Institutions
Corrections
Jails
Prisons—Overcrowding
Prisons and Race Relations

Prison Administration
Prison Industries
Prison Wardens
Prison Discipline
Prison Psychology
Imprisonment
Correctional Law
Prison Reformers

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	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."
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.	Ethnic NewsWatch Contains newspapers, magazines, and journals from the ethnic, minority and native press.
Project MUSE Scholarly journal articles in the Humanities and Social Sciences.	Alt-PressWatch Full text articles to many alternative newspapers, newsletters, magazines, and peer-reviewed journals.

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)

CQ Researcher	Index at Ref. Desk. Reference: H35 E35
Facts on File Issues & Controversies	http://proxy.clpccd.cc.ca.us:2048/login?url=www.2Facts on File/ICOF/icof-main.asp
West’s Encyclopedia of American Law	Reference: KF154 .W47 1998
Encyclopedia of American Prisons	Reference: HV9471 .E425 1996
Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice	Reference: HV6017 .E524 2002
Violence in America	Reference: HN90.V5 V5474 1999
Opposing Viewpoints: Prisons	Reserves: HV9471 .A488 2002
Statistical Abstract of the United States	Reference Desk: HA202 U58 S7 2002
Uniform Crime Reports from the United States	Reference: HV6787 .A3 1966
Statistical Resources on the Web	http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/frames/statsfr.html
Information Plus: Prisons and Jails: A Deterrent to Crime?	Reserves: HV 8665 P747 1995
Bureau of Justice Statistics: Corrections Statistics	http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/correct.htm
California Department of Corrections: Reports and Statistics	http://www.corr.ca.gov/CDC/rep_stats.asp
American Civil Liberties Union: Prisoner Rights	http://www.aclu.org/Prisons/PrisonsMain.cfm
Human Rights Watch: Prisons	http://www.hrw.org/prisons/
A Prisoner’s Dictionary	http://web.archive.org/web/20041115044006/http://dictionary.prisonwall.org/
Florida State University: Criminal Justice Links	http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/cjlinks/prison.html#prisons
Online Reference Shelf	http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/onlineref/
Encyclopedia of Associations	Reference Desk: HS17 G334 2004
*Dictionary of American History*	Reference: E174.D52 2003

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

Librarians’ Index to the Internet http://lii.org	INFOMINE: Social Sciences and Humanities 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

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

Assignment For Today: Find one article from EbscoHost Academic Search Elite, EthnicNewsWatch, or Alt-PressWatch

1. Go to Magazine, Journal, and Newspaper Articles and More

Select a database and follow its directions until you actually get to the one, particular database itself.

Enter your search terms.
Scan your results and select a relevant article, remembering to view the abstract, when available, to determine if the article suits your needs.
Select an article and enter relevant information:

Author:	Title:
Title of Journal:	Volume, Issue, Year and page numbers:

Send the article to yourself by E-Mail (Look for the E-Mail button inside your database)

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Finding Resources Related to Issues in A Place to Stand

Subject Headings

Mainly Magazines and Journals

Mainly Newspapers

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

CQ Researcher

Facts on File Issues & Controversies

West’s Encyclopedia of American Law

Encyclopedia of American Prisons

Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice

Violence in America

Opposing Viewpoints: Prisons

Statistical Abstract of the United States

Uniform Crime Reports from the United States

Statistical Resources on the Web

Information Plus: Prisons and Jails: A Deterrent to Crime?

Bureau of Justice Statistics: Corrections Statistics

California Department of Corrections: Reports and Statistics

American Civil Liberties Union: Prisoner Rights

Human Rights Watch: Prisons

A Prisoner’s Dictionary

Florida State University: Criminal Justice Links

Online Reference Shelf

Encyclopedia of Associations

World Wide Web: Academic Searching