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African
American Studies
Departmental Research Guide
This research guide describes basic information on library
and information resources related to African American Studies,
as provided by University Libraries and/or sites on the World
Wide Web.
1.
LC Call Nos. - - - 2.
Finding Articles - - - 3.
Reference Collection - - - 4.
African Studies Faculty - - - 5.
Professional Societies - - - 6.
Web Sites
1.
To Shelf-Browse for Books (using main Library
of Congress Subject Divisions)
Books
on subjects associated with this field are shelved under
the call number ranges listed below. Use TOPCAT
to search for specific items in the collection, or more
narrowly-defined subjects.
African
Americans: E184.5-E185.98 ------- Education: LC2701-LC2853 ------- Music: M1670-M1671 ------- Art: N6538.N5 ------- Media: P94.5.A37, PN1992.8 .A34, PN1995.9.N4 ------- Health: HB1323.B5, RA448.5.N4, RC451.5.N4
2. To Find Journal and Magazine Articles
(using indexing/abstracting/full-text services)
The
following are recommended for courses for first-year students
and non-majors:
The
following are recommended for use by advanced students and
researchers:
- America:
History and Life (ABC-CLIO): Since 1964, the premiere
database covering the history of the United States, and
Historical
Abstracts (ABC-CLIO): Since 1954, the premiere database
covering history since 1450 (excluding Canada and the United
States). In addition to articles includes 3,000 citations
annually to useful historical books reviewed by leading
historical journals and citations to abstracts of dissertations.
- FirstSearch:
Arts & Humanities Search (Arts & Humanities Citation
Index): Over two million articles, bibliographies and
reviews from more than 1,300 journals, beginning in 1980.
Faculty and graduate students, undergraduates by special
permission.
- FirstSearch:
Humanities Abstracts (H.W. Wilson): Includes articles,
bibliographies and book reviews drawn from 465 journals.
Indexing since 1984, abstracts since 1994. Faculty and graduate
students, undergraduates by special permission.
- JSTOR:
Provides the full text/full image web access of the complete
archival collections of over 150 (and growing) core scholarly
journals up to the most recent three to five years.
- Project
Muse: Scholarly journals online,
in full-text.
The
following service is useful in locating biographical information:
The
following sources are useful in locating reviews of historical
books:
- Book
Review Index (Ref Z1035 A1 B6): Since 1965, BRI
has been the leading general guide to reviews of thousands
of books appearing in over 500 publications from the U.S.,
Canada, Europe and Australia. Each annual includes more
than 40,000 reviews.
- Books
in Print with Reviews: Lists 2.5 million books in print,
out of print, or forthcoming, and provides 500,000 full
text reviews from Choice, Library Journal,
Booklist, and other library review media.
- See
also: America:
History and Life; Historical
Abstracts; Arts
and Humanities Search (FirstSearch); Humanities
Abstracts (FirstSearch).
Special
resource: TDNet
Electronic Journal Finder [use to access Libraries'
electronic journals, magazines, and newspapers, as well as
some indexes and databases containing full-text articles;
includes a comprehensive A-Z listing of titles]
3. Major African American-Related Reference
Works in the Helm Library
The
following are recommended for use:
- African
American Historic Places. The Preservation Press. Ref.
E 185 .A2534 1994
- Afro-American
Encyclopedia. 10 vols. Educational Book Publishers.
Ref. E 185. A28
- Afro
USA: a Reference Work on the Black Experience. Bellwether
Publishing Co. Ref. E 185 .P55 1971
- Almanac
of African American Heritage. Prentice Hall Press. Ref.
E 185 .A448 2001
- Contemporary
Black Biography. 8 vols. Gale Research Inc. Ref. E 185.96
.C66
- Encyclopedia
of African-American Culture and History. 5 vols. Simon
& Schuster. Ref. E 185 .E54 1996
- Historical
Statistics of Black America. 2 vols. Gale Research Inc.
Ref. E 185 .H543 1995
- Reference
Library of Black America. 5 vols. Gale Research Inc.
Ref E 185 .R435x 1994
- The
African-American Yellow Pages. Henry Holt and Company.
Ref E 185 .A2575 1996
- The
Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America. 3 vols. M.E.
Sharpe, Inc. Ref. E 185.61 .E544 1998
- The
Evolution of African American Studies. University Press
of America. Ref. E 184.7 .C66 1995
- The
Negro in American History. 3 vols. Encyclopedia Britannica
Educational Corp. Ref. E 185.N4
Education
- Black
American Colleges and Universities. Gale Research Inc.
Ref. LC 2781 .H54 1994
- Encyclopedia
of African-American Education. Greenwood Press. Ref.
LC 2717 .E53 1996
- The
African American Educational Data Book. 3 vols. Frederick
D. Patterson Research Institute. Ref. LC 2717 .N47x 1997
Art
- Afro-American
Artists. Boston Public Library. Ref. N 6538. N5 C42
- The
Black Artist in America: An Index to Reproductions.
The Scarecrow Press, Inc. Ref. N 6538. N5 T46 1991
Media
- Blacks
in American Films and Television. Garland Publishing,
Inc. Ref PN 1995.9 .N4 B58 1988
- Blacks
in Black and White: A Source Book on Black Films. The
Scarecrow Press, Inc. Ref. PN 1995.9 .N4S2 1995
- Black
Women in Television: An Illustrated History and Bibliography.
Garland Publishing, Inc. Ref. PN 1992.8 .A34 H55 1990
4. African American Studies Faculty
The African American Studies website describes
the minor and details courses and requirements, lists all
African American Faculty, contains links to other colleges
and universities with African American Studies programs, and
has a calendar of events. http://www.wku.edu/afam/bios.htm
5. Related Professional Societies (for
professional news, careers/jobs, memberships, etc.)
6. Web Sites Recommended by African American
Studies Faculty
American
Politics & Public Administration:
University
Libraries Liaison: Jack
Montgomery (x6156 / jack.montgomery@wku.edu)
last updated 4/23/2008
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