socw250

Selected Resources in
SOCW 250—Social Policy I
November 3, 2009`
PLU Library--Gail Egbers
535-8869/egbersgl@plu.edu

BOOKS: Our computerized catalog provides access to the materials in our library. Some topics that might be of interest:

Social workers--United States
Social service--United States
Abbott, Grace, 1878-1939
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Multiculturalism--United States
Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887
Hopkins, Harry Lloyd, 1890-1946
Teresa, Mother, 1910-
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963

FINDING ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS/JOURNALS: Periodical indexes provide the most efficient subject access to journals, magazines, and newspapers. A few indexes that might be useful:

    •   Family & Society Studies Worldwide (via EBSCO)
    •   JSTOR (via PLU Library website)
    •   New York Times Historical (via ProQuest)
    •   PsycINFO (via EBSCO)
    •   Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (via EBSCO)
    •   SocINDEX (via EBSCO)
    •   Times (of London) Digital Archive (via PLU Library website)

LOCATING PERIODICALS/JOURNALS: Use Journals at PLU to obtain the call number of the journal you need. Journals at PLU also gives you access to our full-text periodicals.

REFERENCE BOOKS

•   ABC-CLIO companion to American reconstruction, 1862-1877 (ref. E668.R53 1996)
•   African American lives (REF E185.96.A446 2004)
•   African American years (REF E185.S797 2003)
•   American chronicle: year by year through the twentieth century (ref. E169.1.G664 1999)
•   American Datelines (ref. PN4726.C74 1990)
•   American social leaders (ref. HN65.M38 1993)
•   American social leaders and activists (ref. HV27.H345 2002)
•   Annals of America (ref. E173.A793)
•   Biographical dictionary of social welfare in America (ref. HV27.B57 1986)
•   Civil rights in the United States (ref. E184.A1C47 2000)
•   Encyclopedia of American Facts & Dates (ref. E174.5.C3 1987)
•   Encyclopedia of American social history (ref. HN57.E58 1993)
•   Encyclopedia of civil rights in America (ref. E185.61.E544 1998)
•   Encyclopedia of social work (ref. HV35.S6)
•   Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: a political, social, and military history (ref. E468.E53 2000)
•   Encyclopedia of the Great Depression and the New Deal (ref. E806.C543 2001)
•   Encyclopedia of the United States in the twentieth century (ref. E740.7.E53 1996)
•   Gale encyclopedia of multicultural America. Primary documents (ref. E184.A1G15 1999)
•   Great lives from history. American women series (ref. HQ1412.G74 1995)
•   Hispanic American almanac: a reference work on Hispanics in the United States (REF E184.S75H557 2003)
•   Historical dictionary of American education (ref. LB15.H57 1999)
•   Human Rights in the United States: A Dictionary and Documents (ref. KF4747.5.C37 2000)
•   Milestone documents in American history : exploring the primary sources that shaped America (REF E173.M62x 2008)
•   Native American women: a biographical dictionary (ref. E98.W8B38 2001)
•   Notable Black American Men (ref. E185.86.N68 1999)
•   Notable Black American women (ref. E185.96.N68)
•   Notable Native Americans (ref. E89.N67 1995)
•   Notable women in American history: a guide to recommended biographies and autobiographies (ref. CT3260.A27x 1999)
•   Penguin international dictionary of contemporary biography: from 1900 to the present (ref. CT103.V39 2001)
•   Rebels and renegades: a chronology of social and political dissent in the United States (ref. HN90.R3H354 2002)
•   Significant contemporary American feminists (ref. HQ1412.S56 1999)
•   Social Work Dictionary (ref. HV12.B37 2003)
•   Social workers’ desk reference (ref. HV40.S6464 2002)
•   U.S.A.: A Chronicle in Pictures (ref. E178.5.A485x 1991)
•   Women in world history: a biographical encyclopedia (ref. HQ1115.W6 1999)

OTHER USEFUL SOURCES

•   American National Biography (via PLU Library website)
•   History Resource Center: US (via Gale)
•   History Resource Center: World (via Gale)
•   International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences (via PLU Library website)
•   Legacies of social change 100 years of professional social work in the U.S. (VIDEO HV40.L44 2001)
•   Oxford African American Studies Center (via PLU Library website)
•   WorldCat (via FirstSearch)

INTERNET RESOURCES

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)

•   100 Years of Professional Social Work (http://www.socialworkers.org/profession/centennial/default.htm)
•   300 Women Who Changed the World (http://www.britannica.com/women/nineteenth02.html)
•   African American Social Work Pioneers (http://bpdupdateonline.bizland.com/fall2003/id17.html)
•   African American Social Workers (http://www.howard.edu/library/social_work_library/guides/african_american_social_workers.htm)
•   American Memory (http://memory.loc.gov/)
•   Booker T. Washington (http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/btwashington/index.html)
•   Dorothy Height's oral history video excerpts (http://www.visionaryproject.org/heightdorothy/)
•   Finding Franklin: A Resource Guide (http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/franklin/franklin.html)
•   International Federation of Social Workers (http://www.ifsw.org/)
•   Mother Teresa of Calcutta Center (http://www.motherteresa.org/layout.html)
•   NASW Social Work Pioneers (http://www.naswfoundation.org/pioneers/default.asp)
•   New Social Worker Online (http://www.socialworker.com/home/index.php)
•   Settlement Houses (http://www.socialworker.com/settleme.htm)
•   Social Work History Station (http://www.idbsu.edu/socwork/dhuff/history/central/core.htm)
•   Social Work Resources on the Net (http://library.humboldt.edu/~ccm/social.html)
•   W. E. B. Du Bois (http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/dubois/)
•   Web Sites of Interest to Social Workers (http://www.socialworker.com/websites.htm)

BEYOND PLU

PLU belongs to a consortium of small private colleges and universities. You may check materials out from these libraries using your PLU ID. This consortium includes:

•   St. Martin's University
•   Northwest University
•   Seattle Pacific University
•   Seattle University
•   University of Puget Sound

You may also order articles and books from PLU's Interlibrary Loan. Staff at the Reference Desk will assist you with your ILL orders.

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 3:00-5:00 on Mondays & Tuesdays.

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