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Subject: Inequity in income

Library of Congress Subject Headings: Income distribution, Income--United States, Wealth--United States

 

1. Explore the reference collection in the library for background information about your topic. If you don't know much about your topic, start off with a general encyclopedia. In addition to basic information about your topic, encyclopedia articles may provide you with references to other articles within the encyclopedia, suggestions for further reading, and even web links. Look up your keywords in the indexes to subject encyclopedias

The library has the following reference sources:
Britannica Online

Gale encyclopedia of U.S. economic history
Call Number: Reference HC102 .G35 1999

2. Brainstorm a list of keywords relevant to your topic so that that your search is not too broad or too narrow. List leaders, events, and any keywords that are related to your topic. Knowing terminology, subject headings, and the basics of Boolean logic will to give you greater flexibility when you search for books and articles on your topic. Terminology changes over the years. For example, "homelessness" in current times was referred to as "vagrancy" and "hobos." in the 1960s. To learn more about keywords, subject headings and Boolean logic click here.

3. Keep track of your resources so that you may cite them accurately in your bibliography and works cited pages. To learn more about citing sources with the MLA click here.

  • For books, make note of the title, the author, the publisher, the date, city of publication, and the page number(s) of any information you intend to use in your paper.
  • For articles, make note of the title of the article, the author, the title, the series number, the volume number, the date of the publication, and the page number(s) of any information you intend to use in your paper.
  • For Internet sites, make note of the author, the title of the document, the title of the complete work, the date of publication or last revision, the URL, and the date that you accessed the site.
4. Learn to use your library home page at . The libraries' many resources are available at the library home page. These resources include a vast array of electronic databases; thousands of full text journals, magazines and newspapers and numerous other resources and library services. The following are linked under "Online Resources" on the home page.
HOMER to find books and journal titles held by the libraries.
  • Databases to find resources that will direct you to articles.
  • eJournals to track down journals that are available online.
  • Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan (DD/ILL) to request books and articles that are not available to you on your campus library
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