FINDING BOOKS:  Our computerized catalog provides access to the materials in our library.    You will be most successful using specific headings.  Subject headings relevant to your topic include:

FINDING ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS/JOURNALS: Periodical indexes provide the most efficient subject access to journals, magazines, and newspapers.  Indexes relevant to your topic include:
 

• EBSCO (via PLU Library’s  Website)
• New York Times Historical (via ProQuest)
• ProQuest(via Library Website

 
 
 

LOCATING PERIODICALS/JOURNALS:   Journals at PLU to identify the call number of the journal you need.   Journals at PLU also gives you access to the full-text journals we have online.

 

REFERENCE MATERIALS

• Alcohol and temperance in modern history: an international encyclopedia (REF HV5017.A43 2003)
• American social leaders (ref. HN65.M38 1993)
• American social leaders and activists (ref. HV27.H345 2002)
• American years (REF E174.5.G753 2003)
• Dictionary of American history (ref. E174.D52 2003)
• Encyclopedia of American social movements (REF HN57.E594 2004)
• Encyclopedia of drugs, alcohol, & addictive behavior (ref. HV5804.E53 2001)
• Oxford companion to United States history (ref. E174.O94 2001)
• Rebels and renegades : a chronology of social and political dissent in the United States (ref. HN90.R3H354 2002)

INTERNET RESOURCES

• Alcohol Use Statistics (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/alcohol.htm)
• American Memory (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/)
• Avalon Project at Yale Law School (http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm)
• College Alcohol Study (http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cas/)
• DSHS Research and Data Analysis (http://publications.rda.dshs.wa.gov/title/)
• Field Sobriety Testing (http://www.wtsc.wa.gov/documents/SFST%20Card%202007.pdf)
• Library of Congress American Memory (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/)
• Making of America (MoA) (http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/)
• National Archives (US) (http://www.archives.gov/)
• Persons Killed, by STATE and Highest Driver Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) in Crash (http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/States/StatesAlcohol.aspx)
• Public Order Offenses > Alcohol-Related Offenses (http://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Topics/Topic.aspx?Topicid=75)
• Temperance and Prohibition (http://prohibition.osu.edu/)
• Uniform Crime Reports (http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm)
• Washington State Patrol Midyear report (http://www.wsp.wa.gov/publications/reports/wsp_2008_mid_year_report.pdf)
• Women’s Christian Temperance Union (http://www.wctu.org/)

• Cyclopaedia of temperance and prohibition. A reference book of facts, statistics, and general information on all phases of the drink question, the temperance movement and the prohibition agitation. (HV5017.C8 1891)
• History Resource Center: US (Online via Gale)
•  Standard encyclopedia of the alcohol problem (HV5017.S7 1925)
• WorldCat (via Library Website) 

BEYOND PLU:  PLU's library may not own all of the materials you want to use.  You may either order them from Interlibrary Loan or go to a local library personally.  We are part of a consortium of libraries that includes: 

• Northwest University

• St. Martin's University

• University of Puget Sound

• Seattle Pacific University

• Seattle University
  

 You may use your PLU ID card to check out materials from these libraries.  If you wish to order from Interlibrary Loan, be sure to allow sufficient time for the materials to arrive.

 

 

If you have questions while doing library research, ask for help at the reference desk or make an appointment with me for personal research assistance.    My office hours are Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:00-5:00.

 

 
 
 

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