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Resources Available at the Library: Psychology/Counseling 1

Subject Headings  |  Library Subscription Databases  |  Library Catalog  |  Pamphlet Files  |  Reference/Statistical Resources
Web Resources  |  Psychology and Student Counseling Web Search  |  World Wide Web: Academic Searching
World Wide Web: General Searching  |  Searching EbscoHost

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Reference/Statistical Sources (Books, Databases and Web sites—This is just a sample)

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.  For example, a student created an otherwise decent page on the literary author, Toni Morrison, but she linked to a web page that purported to be a research site on Martin Luther King that turned out to be a racist web site from a white supremacy group!  Clearly she did not take the time to evaluate the web sites she selected, carefully.   The Library has an effective web evaluation checklist available at:  http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/abby/evaluation.html

Psychology and Student Counseling Web Resources      http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/handouts/psych.html
Created by the Library, this site leads you to search engines and research guides devoted to the fields of Psychology and Student Counseling.

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

World Wide Web: General Searching http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/handouts/Eng1A/Transue.html#search