Selected Resources in
WRIT 101—Food
April 20, 2010
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:

FINDING ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS/JOURNALS: Periodical indexes and abstracts provide the most efficient subject access to journals and periodicals.

• Alt-Press Watch (APW) (via ProQuest)
• Alternative Press Index (via FirstSearch)
• EBSCOhost (via Library home page)
• Healthsource (via EBSCO)
• PsycINFO  (via EBSCO)
• SocINDEX (via EBSCO)

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

• Cambridge world history of food (TX353.C255 2000)
• Consumer’s dictionary of food additives: descriptions in plain English of more than 12,000 ingredients both harmful and desirable found in foods (REF TX553.A3W55 2004)
• Encyclopedia of food and culture (REF GT2850.E53 2003)
• Encyclopedia of human nutrition (REF QP141.E526 2005)
• Handbook of nutrition and food (ref. QP141.H345 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)

• Emergency Food Network (http://www.efoodnet.org/Default.aspx)
• Food Connection (http://www.foodconnection.org/)
• Hospitality Kitchen (https://volunteer.united-e-way.org/uwpierce/org/1493155.html)
• Mother Earth Farms (http://www.efoodnet.org/Page11.aspx)
• 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  (https://fortress.wa.gov/dshs/f2ws03esaapps/onlinecso/food_assistance_program.asp)
  

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

http://www.plu.edu/~egbersgl/kaufman101
 

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