 from: American Memory |
Barnard College Library Research Guide
BC4584: American Urban Disasters
Professor Cindy Lobel
Spring 2004
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 from: USGS |
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from: American Memory |
Barnard College Library Research Guide
BC4584: American Urban Disasters
Professor Cindy Lobel
Spring 2004
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from: USGS |
Contents
Reference Books | CLIO & Other Library Catalogs |
Databases & Indexes |
Newspapers
E-Journals |
Electronic Subject Guides
Consultation Request
Encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference books can provide useful background and factual information. They can also provide bibliographies that lead you to relevant books and articles. The reference books in this list are available in the Barnard Library reference area on the second floor. There are many other reference books which may be helpful to you. Please ask the reference librarian for help in identifying additional reference books.
| Encyclopedia of Urban America; the Cities and Suburbs. 2 vols. | HT123 .E5 1968 |
| Encyclopedia of American Social History. 3 vols. | HN57.E58 1993 |
| Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures. 4 vols. | HT108.5 .E53 2002 |
| Violence in America; an Encyclopedia. | HN90.V5 V5474 |
| City A-Z. | HT153 .C557 2000 |
| Encyclopedia of New York City. | F128.3 E75 1995 |
•CLIO: the online catalog & other library catalogs
CLIO (Columbia Libraries Information Online) is the on-line catalog for the Barnard & Columbia Libraries. CLIO can be searched by author, title, subject and keyword. Help for searching CLIO is available on the Web CLIO opening screen. Click on: "Connect via WWW".
Some Sample Searches:
title:
encyclopedia of urban america
title: urban affairs review
author: jackson kenneth
subject: sensationalism in journalism
subject: september 11 terrorist attacks
keyword: "san francisco" and earthquake?
keyword: tulsa and race and riot
Other Library Catalogs:
Please note that Teachers’ College, Union Theological Seminary and the Law Library’s holdings are not listed in CLIO and that they have their own online library catalogs. The holdings of the Health Sciences Library are listed in CLIO. CATNYP is the online catalog of the NYPL research library and has an extensive newspaper collection. Also WorldCat is a composite catalog of the collections of about 24,000 libraries. Eureka is a composite catalog of the collections of major research, academic, museum and other libraries. Click on "Other Library Catalogs" to locate and search these catalogs. Items listed in these catalogs which are not located at Columbia may be borrowed through Interlibrary Loan. See below.
Interlibrary Loan:
Interlibrary Loan will borrow books or obtain photocopies of items that are not available at the Barnard or Columbia Libraries with no charge to the patron. To order an item on Interlibrary Loan click on "Request It" on the BC Library home page or CULWeb. Then click on "Interlibrary Loan" and you may request it electronically (or click here). You may also make a request in person at the Interlibrary Loan office in 307 Butler.
•Databases & Indexes: for locating articles & secondary sources
To find journal and periodical articles click on Databases (Journal articles and more). You can access this from the Barnard Library home page as well as from Columbia University LWeb. There are links for many indexes which give citations, abstracts and some full text for articles in various disciplines. After using an index you need to search CLIO to locate the journal in the Barnard/Columbia Library system. Some databases may have an e-link which will search to see if the full-text of a particular item is available online.
The following indexes and databases will probably be the most relevant to your research:
America: History and LifeHumanities Abstracts
1984 to present. General humanities. Includes history as well as archaeology, art classics, film,
folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, performing arts and religion. e-link enabled.
Social Sciences
Abstracts
1983 to present. General social sciences. Includes anthropology, sociology and
social history. e-link enabled.
PCI: Periodicals
Contents Index
Especially useful for finding articles published in the 18, 19th and the early 20th century.
Interdisciplinary and includes international journals. Primarily humanities and social sciences.
Citations only. e-link enabled.
ProQuest Direct
Full-text articles and abstracts from newspapers and periodicals in many disciplines, including
international affairs, law, psychology, public affairs, sociology, women's studies, from 1988 to the
present. For scholarly journals, select "Interdisciplinary-Research
Library" from the drop-down menu.
Readers' Guide
Abstracts
Citations to articles in popular and general interest periodicals. 1983 to present. e-link enabled.
Readers' Guide Retrospective
Citations to articles in popular and general interest
periodicals from 1890-1982.
American Memory
From the Library of Congress, with over 80 collections full text online (texts, music,
photographs, films).
Topics from this collection include: Pearl Harbor, the Haymarket Affair and San Francisco and the
1906 earthquake.
JSTOR
Full-text articles from more than 320 scholarly journals, some of which go back to the 1890s.
History, Sociology and African American Studies are among the disciplines included.
•Newspapers
American Newspapers in the Columbia
University Libraries
Full-text and full image articles from the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal back to their
first issue.
LEXIS NEXIS
Full-text coverage of general news, medical, legal, business, governmental and reference topics.
Coverage varies by source; generally begins in mid-1980s. Major database for finding newspapers.
ProQuest Historical
Newspapers
Full-text and full image articles from the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal
back to their first issue.
Gale Database of
Publications and Broadcast Media
Contains descriptive and directory information for more than 64,000 newspapers, periodicals,
newsletters, television, and radio stations.
This can help you in identifying newspapers.
Internet News Links (E-News): from the Journalism Library
Includes links to national, international, wire services and more.
Subject Guides and Internet Resources: from the Journalism Library
Includes magazine, media studies, Internet news sources, news compilations and more.
•E-Journals: list of e-journals available from Columbia
Click on link to access list of alphabetical
list of electronic full text journals from Columbia:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/ejournals/
•Electronic Subject Guides from Barnard & Columbia University Libraries
The
Subject Guides
page, available from the Columbia
University LibraryWeb page, includes links to African-American Studies,
American Studies, Electronic Text Resources, Humanities & History, Latin
American Studies, Women's Studies, and many other topics. See direct links
listed below.
American History
•Consultations with Reference Librarians
Click here to complete a form you can e-mail to the library requesting a consultation on your research, or come to the Reference Desk on the second floor. To contact a reference librarian, e-mail refdesk@barnard.edu or call 212-854-3953. We'll be happy to help you find additional information.