ONLINE PUBLIC ACCESS CATALOG
 

The online catalog can be used to find books, government documents, juvenile books and reference books on a topic. To find books first select a search index, such as author, subject, or title, and then type in the search word(s) in the box, as illustrated below:

There are many history books in the library. Some are secondary sources (someone writing about a historical event or person after the event or after the person lived), and some are primary sources. Primary sources are reports of an event written at the time of the event. Primary sources can be newspaper stories, diaries, journals, other official correspondence, speeches, and personal narratives of an event.
 
 

RESOURCES IN THE REFERENCE AREA

R 960 C14c	The Cambridge History of Africa Contains a good overview of the history of Africa from the prehistory to around 1975.
R 780.9 G18s	The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Volume 1: Africa This comprehensive encyclopedia contains the study of music in all of the continents of the world. The volume on Africa contains an overview of African Music, plus music in different regions and specific countries of Africa.
R 912.6 C89m	The Cultural Atlas of Africa The first part of his atlas contains a discussion of the geography of Africa, while part two discusses the languages and peoples, religions, early man in Africa, kingdoms and empires, Europe in Africa, the African Diaspora, the growth of cities, african arts, music, architecture, and education and literacy. Part 3 is about all the individual countries that comprise Africa.
R 911 H18t4	The Times Atlas of the World Contains text and maps showing the history of different regions of the world, including Africa.
R 940 Eu7eu	The Europa World Yearbook This fine yearbook contains information on the location, climate, language, religion, history, government, economic affairs, education, and public holidays of all of the countries of the world.
R 306 En1	Encyclopedia of World Cultures This great encyclopedia give information on all the cultural groups in the world. For each culture covered, it gives the culture location, population, language spoken, history and cultural relations, settlements, economy, trade, kinship, marriage and family, social and political organization, religion. Volume 9 covers Africa and the Middle East.
R 306 IL6	The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Mankind This encyclopedia covers over 500 cultural/ethnic groups all over the world
R 370.3 W89M2	World Education Encyclopedia: A Survey of Educational Systems Worldwide This three volume set covers the education systems in each country of the world.
R 200.321 En1	Encyclopedia of Religion This encyclopedia contains information on the "important ideas, practices, and persons in the religious experience of humankind from the Paleolithic past to our day." It contains many sections that deal with African religious ideas.

 
  OTHER SOURCES SHELVED IN NON-REFERENCE AREAS (examples)
 

960.32 Af8d

Africa: Opposing Viewpoints. Opposing Viewpoints is a series that takes topics of a controversial nature and finds articles, speeches, essays that reflect differing views on a topic. This one on Africa, published in 2000, asks questions regarding the economic development of Africa, wildlife management in Africa, human rights in Africa, policies for peace in Africa.

second floor, 900's

Area Handbook Series This is a series of books written by the Foreign Area Studies of the American University in Washington, D.C. They are written for the Department of the Army. There is supposed to be a country study for every country of the world. They are updated about every 10 years or so. They cover the history, geography, groups and languages, religion, education, health and welfare, the economy, government and politics and national security of each country in the series. This series is also available on the Internet at: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/

MAGAZINES, JOURNALS, NEWSPAPERS

Unlike books, the contents of journals are not available in the SE library catalog. So where are they located? They are located in magazine and journal indexes. Magazine and journal indexes assign a subject to each article in each journal indexed in the magazine and journal index. Until the 1990's most magazine and journal indexes were in paper, now they are almost all on the Internet. Some of these journal indexes on the Internet index popular magazines, other scholarly, while others are devoted to one subject area, NO Journal Index indexes every journal that is published, so they are selective.

HOW TO FIND ARTICLES IN JOURNALS, MAGAZINES

Step One: Look in a Periodical Index

A periodical index is a publication that indexes the content of periodicals. There are many different periodical indexes, some general and some subject specific. One thing needs to be made clear: There is not any periodical index that indexes every single periodical being published today. So each index is selective in what periodicals it indexes. Periodical indexes tend to index the most important or most popular or most respected or well known periodicals.

PAPER PERIODICAL INDEXES

For many years periodical indexes were published in paper, like a book. They would usually come out every few months with an update, and then come out at the end of the year with an annual cumulation. Paper periodical indexes are cumbersome to use and take some take to look at every year, but they can contain information on many valuable articles written sometimes years ago, and paper indexes are valuable places to search for topics in music, drama, art, literature and history.

ONLINE PERIODICAL INDEXES

Why use online databases?

• It is much easier to use online databases, and you can search years of a database with one search
• You can also find the most recent articles on any topic because most online databases are updated daily or weekly

There is a disadvantage to online databases for those who are researching topics in history or literature

• Most online databases go back only to the 1990's or the 1980's, and so many potentially valuable articles in older magazines and journals can be missed if you search only in online databases.

Some Online Databases that the SE Library Has

1. Where the Databases are located
These databases are all to be found on the SE Library's Electronic Resources Page at: http://www.se.edu/lib/electres.htm

2. What EBSCOHost and FirstSearch are
The word EBSCOhost or FirstSearch to the right of the database name in the table above indicates the name of the database vendor where you can find these databases. If you look at the list of links on the ELectronic Resources page, you will see the links organized by the type of database that they are. You will find EBSCOhost and FirstSearch under the listing of databases called Periodical Databases. When you go down the list, you will see at least two links for both EBSCOhost and FirstSearch. The first link is for those that are on the SE campus. Click on that link, and you will be taken to the list of databases under EBSCOhost or FirstSearch. The second link is the off campus link. This link is necessary to use if you are off of the SE Campus. This link takes you to a page where you will be asked to type in a userid or authorization number, and a password. The userid or authorization number and password to gain access to EBSCOhost and FirstSearch is available at the SE Library Reference Desk, and also is on the proxy server.

Step Two: Check to see if the article is available online Full-Text

Step Three: Check to see if the article is available online Full-Text in another database

Step Four: Check to see if the the SE Library has the journal in paper

Step Five: Use InterLibrary Loan to obtain the article from another college library that has the journal that you want

1. Obtain an Interlibrary loan form from the circulation desk or go to an online InterLibrary Loan form at: http://www.se.edu/lib/illjournalreq.htm for a journal article and http://www.se.edu/lib/illbookreq.htm for Interlibrary loaning a book. 2. Fill out the form, take note that those fields of the form that have an asterisk in front of them are required fields that are needed to send the information via e-mail. Click submit after filling out the form. 3. The process of receiving something from InterLibrary loan takes about 4 days to two weeks, so if InterLibrary Loans are needed,

NEWSPAPERS AND SELECTED MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
 
 

Basement	American Heritage Well known magazine that has very readable articles of varying length that cover all aspects of United States history. This library has issues from 1954 to the present.
Basement	American Historical Review This very distinguished journal, published by the American Historical Association, contains long scholarly articles on all areas of history. The library has this journal from 1895 to the present.
Basement	Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine 1882-1901
Basement	Harpers Magazine 1850-1976 (with some gaps)
Basement	Scribner's Magazine 1870-1939 (with some gaps All three of these monthly magazines contain articles of opinion and history with short stories and poetry also included. All three of these magazines began publishing in the last 50 years of the nineteenth century, and so are useful for historians. These three magazines could be considered as primary sources.
Basement	Journal of American History(formerly Mississippi Valley Historical Review) Published by the Organization of American Historians. An excellent journal on all aspects of American history. This library has volumes from 1964 to the present.
Basement	Journal of Southern History An excellent journal on Southern History published by the Southern Historical Association. The library has issues from 1935 to the present.
Basement	Journal of the West A journal devoted to the history, culture, and other areas of the development of the American West
Basement, in storage	Life Magazine Life began publication in 1936, and is a very good source for pictures of historical events happening after 1936. The library has the entire original series of Life from 1936 to 1972, and the new series starting in 1978 to the present. This would be a good source to get a pictorial history of spaceflight.
Basement	The International History Review The library holds volumes from 1946 to the present. This journal says that it is "a historical review of New England Life and Letters."
Microform area	New York Times The library has this newspaper from 1851 to the present on microfilm reels. The index to the newspaper from 1851-1928 is on microfiche, and is located with the microfiche periodicals. After 1928 the index is in red volumes
Microform area	Time Magazine 1923 to present
Microform area	Newsweek Magazine
Microform area	U.S. News and World Report These three news magazines have all been publishing for at least fifty years. A good source to find historical photographs, maps and articles on historical events of the Twentieth Century, including space exploration.
basement	World Press Review The editors of this monthly magazine "sift through hundreds of newspapers and magazines to select, translate, reprint and analyze articles that offer insight into the ideas and issues that preoccupy societies around the globe." The library has this publication from 1980 to May 2004

U. S. GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS SOURCES

(In Storage, basement)	Congressional Globe (1833-1873) A precursor to the Congressional Record, these volumes contain the debates and proceedings of the U. S. Congress, including any about slavery (which there were quite a few). Each volume contains an index. Citations to the C. G. may appear in any one of several indexes or bibliographies named earlier.
(In Storage, Basement)	United States Statutes at Large Contains all public laws, acts, treaties and proclamations by the U. S. Congress. They are arranged in chronological order. Volumes for the years 1789 (first Congress) to 1936 (74th Congress) are in storage. After 1936 the volumes are in GOV DOC room, Floor 2-A.
R 348.73 Un3ca	United States Reports This is the official bound edition of the United States Supreme Court decisions. Before they are bound the official Supreme Court decisions are printed individually and are called slip opinions. The most recent years of slip opinion that have not been bound are located in the Government Documents collection on Floor 2A.
S 9.12/2	Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States of America, 1776-1949.
S 9.12	United States Treaties and Other International Agreements. This series begins in 1950 and goes to 1984.
S 9.10	United States Treaties and Other International Acts Series This series contains treaties as individual documents, from 1984 to 1997.
PREX 9.10:	National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers This document is available up to the 2004 year. AFter that it is available on the United States Trade Representative site at: http://www.ustr.gov/Document_Library/Reports_Publications/2006/2006_NTE_Report/Section_Index.html

INTERNET RESOURCES
 

Introduction to Internet Resources
 

There are millions of Internet sites now. Each site has an address on the Internet. That address is called a URL (Uniform Resource Locator). After each Internet history site mentioned in this list, there will be the URL, location, or address of the site on the Internet. When you want to access a site on this list, type in the address which appears after the letters URL. You must type in the address exactly as it appears. If you do not, you will not access the site. DO NOT TYPE IN URL.
 

Africa Resources
 

• BBC News: Africa
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/default.stm
Contains current news about Africa from the world renowned BBC.


• Human Rights Watch: Africa
  http://hrw.org/doc/?t=africa
"Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. We stand with victims and activists to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bring offenders to justice. We investigate and expose human rights violations and hold abusers accountable. We challenge governments and those who hold power to end abusive practices and respect international human rights law. We enlist the public and the international community to support the cause of human rights for all. Human Rights Watch is an independent, nongovernmental organization, supported by contributions from private individuals and foundations worldwide. It accepts no government funds, directly or indirectly."


• Newslink: African Newspapers
  http://newslink.org/nonusf.html



• CIA World Factbook
  
  https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
This internet site contains factual and statistical information on all of the countries of the world.


• African History on the Internet
  http://www-sul.stanford.edu/africa/history.html
This site contains links to many sites on the Internet that pertain to African history


• African Studies Center
  http://www.africa.upenn.edu/About_African/ww_hist.html
This site is housed at the University of Pennsyvannia and contains a host of information on Africa, its culture, maps, flags, history, social problems, political structure and more.