Selected Resources in
WRIT 101—Food
November 9, 2006
Gail Egbers
535-8869 egbersgl@plu.edu
FINDING BOOKS: Our computerized
catalog
provides access to the materials in our library.
Subject headings relevant to your topic include:
Food
Additives
Food industry and trade
Food Habits
Food Relief
Organic Farming
Sustainable agriculture
Hunger
Food Supply
Vegetarianism
Food -- Religious aspects --
Christianity
FINDING ARTICLES IN
PERIODICALS/JOURNALS:
Periodical indexes and abstracts provide the most efficient subject
access
to journals and periodicals.
| LOCATING PERIODICALS/JOURNALS:
Use Journals
at PLU to identify the call number of the journal you
need. Journals
at PLU also identifies any journals we have available
fulltext
online. |
REFERENCE
MATERIALS
- Animal rights: a
beginner’s guide (ref.
HV4764.A24 1996)
- Cambridge world
history of food (ref. TX353.C255 2000)
- Consumer’s
Dictionary Of Food
Additives (ref. TX553.A3W55 1999)
- Encyclopedia of
food and
culture (REF GT2850.E53 2003)
- Handbook of
nutrition and food (ref. QP141.H345 2002)
- Natural
medicines comprehensive database (ref.
RM258.5.N38 2002)
- New Oxford Book
Of Food
Plants (ref. SB175.V38 1997)
- Nutrition
almanac (ref. RA784.N837 2002)
- Oxford companion
to food (ref. TX349.D38x 1999)
- Oxford
encyclopedia of food
and
drink in America
(REF TX349.E45 2004)
- Penguin atlas of
food
(REF HD9000.5.M52 2003)
INTERNET: The Internet is
an attractive source of information but it does not have the best
information
for all situations. Use the Internet only for supplemental
information. Read the handout "Evaluating Information from the
Internet"
(http://www.plu.edu/~egbersgl/evalinternet.html)
Aging
&
Disability Services Administration
(http://www.aasa.dshs.wa.gov/default.htm)
Emergency
Food
Network (http://www.efoodnet.org/index.htm)
Food
Connection (http://www.foodconnection.org/)
Mother
Earth
Farms (http://www.efoodnet.org/mother_earth.htm)
Nativity
House (http://www.nativityhouse.org/)
Northwest Harvest (http://www.northwestharvest.org/)
Organic Farming Research
Foundation (http://www.ofrf.org/)
Second Harvest (http://www.2-harvest.org/2%2Dharvest/)
Sustainable Farming
Internships and
Apprenticeships
(http://www.attrainternships.ncat.org/)
Washington Basic Food Program (http://www1.dshs.wa.gov/esa/eazmanual/Sections/PS_FedFoodAssist.htm)
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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