Library > Reference > FIRST YEAR SEMINAR: KOOKS, COMMIES, AND THE KKK: RADICAL POLITICS IN AMERICA FALL 2002
FIRST YEAR SEMINAR: KOOKS, COMMIES, AND THE KKK: RADICAL POLITICS IN AMERICA FALL 2002
Anni Baker and Jean Callaghan
General Library Information
ELIZA: the Library's online catalog
ELIZA, available from the Library's home page in telnet or web versions, is accessible from on or off campus. The catalog includes all of the Library's holdings: books, reference material, journals, electronic journals, newspapers, microforms, electronic resources, audiovisual material, music scores, interactive media, rare books and archival materials.
Search ELIZA by author, title, subject [Library of Congress subject headings only] or key word to find material in the library. To locate a book in the library, you will need the call number and the location [i.e. REF, STACKS].
Search periodicals by title, or for more advanced searching, consult Search Hints for Periodicals and Electronic Journals. Periodicals are shelved alphabetically by title: 1990+ on the Periodicals Level and 1900-1989 on the Stack Level, in the compact shelving. Pre-1900 periodicals must be paged. Microforms [microfilm and microfiche] are located on the Periodicals Level in the Microform Room.
Library of Congress Classifications
The Library uses the Library of Congress classification system. This is a subject-oriented system. A basic classification schedule is on the back of the Wallace Library Guide, which will help you to become familiar with various subject categories. The first letter (or letters) of the call number determines its subject, and its location in the Library. If a call number is preceded by "REF," the material is located in the Reference Room. All of the "N" (or Fine Arts) classifications are located on the top two levels of the Library. The main book collection (classification A to M and P to Z) is located on the Stack Level.
Reference Collection
Material located in the Reference Room includes such sources as general and subject-specific encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, handbooks, directories, bibliographies, and indexes and abstracts. This is a non-circulating collection. Indexes and abstracts are available online and/or in paper format, depending on the dates of coverage, and will help you to find articles in journals and newspapers, plus citations for books and documents.
You can contact me at the Reference Desk Tuesdays 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
or call x3715 or email: jcallagh@wheatonma.edu
My office is located on the Periodicals Level.
Website for this class:
http://www.wheatoncollege.edu/library/reference/fys/f2002/baker.html
Starting Your Research
Locating books in the Library:
Search ELIZA by author, title, subject [Library of Congress subject headings only] or key word to find books in the library. Truncate searches to include all terms [i.e. terrori* will locate terrorism, terrorist, terrorists, etc.]. Example of a key word search: terrori* united states
To locate a book in the library, you will need the call number and the location [i.e. REF, STACKS]. For books not available in the Library, submit an Interlibrary Loan Form, available at the Reference Desk, or complete an online request form via the Library*s home page or the main page of ELIZAWeb.
Reference sources (use for in-class assignment):
ABC-CLIO companion to the environmental movement
REF GE197.G76 1994
Abortion : a reference handbook
REF HQ767.5.U5 C67 1991
American women civil rights activists : biobibliographies of 68 leaders, 1825-1992
REF JC599.U5 H273 1993
Completely queer : the Gay and Lesbian encyclopedia
REF HQ75.H63 1998
Concise glossary of feminist theory
REF HQ1115.A53 1997
Conservation and environmentalism : an encyclopedia
REF GE10.C68 1995
Dictionary of feminist theory 2nd ed.
REF HQ1115.H86 1995
Dictionary of race and ethnic relations 3rd ed.
REF GN496.C37 1994
Encyclopedia of African-American civil rights from emancipation to the present
REF E185.61.E54 1992
Encyclopedia of American activism, 1960 to the present
REF JK1764.D53 1998
Encyclopedia of American cultural & intellectual history 3 vols.
REF E169.1.E624 2001
Encyclopedia of American social history 3 vols.
REF HN57.E58 1993
Vol. 3: social problems, social control, and social protest
Encyclopedia of animal rights and animal welfare
REF HV4708.E53 1998
Encyclopedia of Black America
REF E185.E55
Encyclopedia of feminism
REF HQ1115.T87 1986
Encyclopedia of homosexuality 2 vols.
REF HQ76.25.E53 1990
Encyclopedia of propaganda 3 vols.
REF HM263.E53 1998
Encyclopedia of student and youth movements
REF LA186.B87 1998
Encyclopedia of the American left
REF HX86.E58 1990
Encyclopedia of women and gender : sex similarities and differences and the impact of society on gender 2 vols.
REF HQ1115.E52 2001
Environment encyclopedia and directory
REF GE10.E56 1994
Environmental justice : a reference handbook
REF JC578.N485 1996
Gay almanac
REF HQ76.3.U5 G367 1996
Green encyclopedia : A-Z sourcebook of environmental concerns and solutions
REF GE10.F73 1992
Guide to the American left
REF JK2260.W54
Guide to the American right
REF JK2260.W542
Handbook of American women's history
REF HQ1410.H36 1990
Historical dictionary of the civil rights movement
REF E185.61.L84 1997
Historical dictionary of the green movement
REF GE195.P36 1998
Leaders from the 1960's : a biographical sourcebook of American activism
REF HN59.L43 1994
Lesbian almanac
REF HQ75.6.U5L35 1996
Negro almanac : a reference work on the African American 5th ed.
REF E185.N385 1989
Racial and ethnic relations in America 3 vols.
REF E49.R33 2000
Radicalism handbook : radical activists, groups and movements of the twentieth century
REF HN17.5.R356 1995
Reader's companion to U.S. women's history
REF HQ1410.R43 1998
Routledge critical dictionary of feminism and postfeminism
REF HQ1115.R68 2000
Women's rights in the United States : a documentary history
REF HQ1236.5.U6W68 1994
World encyclopedia of peace 4 vols.
REF JX1944 .W67 1986
Annotated bibliographies (for class assignment):
For your assignment, you will be required to submit 5 annotated bibliographies using the style format of the Modern Language Association (MLA). An annotated bibliography is a citation from a book, a journal article, or a report on a specific theme or topic, followed by a brief descriptive and evaluative paragraph that informs the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited.
For more information and examples of MLA style annotated bibliographies:
Writer's handbook
A comprehensive handbook developed at the Writing Center of the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
How to prepare an annotated bibliography
From the Library at Western State College of Colorado.
How to prepare an annotated bibliography
Compiled by reference librarians at the Cornell University Library.
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