General Bibliography

Charitable Giving Resources

There is so much useful information being producced, diseminated, stored, collected every day on charitable giving. There is information in magazines, journals, books, reports, government publications, radio, television, videos and DVDs. Libraries collect information some of the kinds of resources listed above. There is also a huge amount of Information on the Internet. You, the library patron, need to find information on grants Where do you go to find information, and how to you know that the information that you find is good, quality information? This is what this doucment attempts to answer. This document will outline the kinds of information that you can obtain through a place that provides access to information, as well as stores and collects information, your college library. At the end of this document there will be some Internet resources that can be used.

This library is called the Henry G. Bennett Memorial Library. It contains many resources that will be of use to your in doing research about grants. This document will outline the main tools that you can use to pinpoint the exact resources that you need. Here at the Henry G. Bennett Memorial Library there is much useful information that is available in many different locations in the library and also in many different formats. This document will hopefully point you in the right direction in locating the right materials for your research.

SIRSI ILINK CATALOG

The library catalog is one of the main access points to the content and information found in the Library. You can find books, government publications, videos, DVDs, and more through the catalog.

This is the SE library catalog. Use this to search for books, videos, government documents on a topic.

If you don't find the book that you are looking for in the SE Library catalog, there is another catalog that you can search to find the item that you are looking for:

WorldCat
http://www.worldcat.org

A database of over 52 million records of materials representing 400 languages, such as: books, magazines, films, slides, journals, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, newspapers, videocassettes, audio-cassettes, computer data files, and computer programs, that have been cataloged by OCLC members worldwide. The records cover items from 1000 BC to the present, and this database is updated daily.

The Collections of the Library

The Library is divided into many special collections. Here is a list of some of the more important ones:

Circulating Collection	The Circulating collection contains materials that can be checked out by library patrons. This collection comprises the majority of the collection. This collection contains many different subjects and is located on the 2nd, 2a and 3rd floors.
Electronic E-Books Collection	The electronic e-books collection is located on the Internet. Records of these electronic resources are located in the catalog. Once the record is located, the student needs to click on the URL link to access the electronic resource. If the student wants to browse the electronic e-books collection, they may do so by going to NetLibrary at: http://www.netlibrary.com .
Juvenile Collection	The Juvenile collection contains materials that are for a younger audience of readers. It contains books, reference books, videos for preschool age children through high school. Much of the collection is fiction, but there are also nonfiction books in history, religion, science, folk tales and fairy tales, arts and crafts, music, biography and more. There are also award winning books also, such as Sequoyah book winners, Caldecott Book Winners, and Newberry Book winners
Video Collection	The Video collection is a growing collection of Videocassettes and DVD's on all kinds of topics, such as: Psychology, religion, biography, history, communication, business, theatre, baseball, and more. There are currently around 2230 videos and DVD's in the collection. Materials in the collection can be checked out for a week.
Reference Collection	The reference collection is located on the first floor of the Henry G. Bennett Library. It consists of encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, directories, yearbooks, almanacs on many differnt subjects. The materials are used by the reference librarians in answering questions from patrons. Also patrons themselves can use to reference collection to look up information and can use the reference collection anywhere in the library.
Native American Collection	The Native American Collection, created in 1999 to more effectively support the research and teaching interests of our university and community, is located on the southeast corner of the first floor. The collection includes materials related to Indians of the Americas with a focus on the tribes of the United States. There are currently almost 3,000 items in the collection.
Curriculum Collection	The Curriculum Center is housed in the basement of the library. The Curriculum Center contains items that have been selected by the State Textbook Committee. In May of each year, the State Textbook Committee issues a “Call for Bids” for instructional materials for specific subject areas. These instructional materials are adopted by the State Textbook Committee on a rotating basis, usually for a period of six years. Instructional Technology is adopted every three years. The rotating cycle is available on the State Textbook Committee Website. The arrangement of the Curriculum Center is by Dewey Decimal System, just like the rest of the books in the library.
The Government Documents collection	See description of the Government Docuemnts collection below
The Periodical Collection	See description of the Periodical collection below

Your can search all of these collections (with the execption of the Periodical collection) at once in the Library Catalog.

Reference Works

Use reference works as a starting point for research. For example, Encyclopedias give short descriptive articles on a topic, plus references that can be used to build a research paper.

R 061 F82d	Foundation Directory THis is an annual publication of the Foundation Center. It provides information on the 10,000 largest grantmaking foundatations. For each foundation listed, it gives address and contact information, web address, e-mail address, financial data areas of interest in giving, types of assistance given, limitations in giving, such as a particular geographic area, information on how to apply for a grant, and information on selected grants given in the past. The directory is arranged by state. There are seven indexes, an Index to donors, officers and trustees, a geographic index, an international giving index, a types of support index, a subject index, a foundations new to this edition index, and a foundation name index.
R 658.15224 F82s	The Foundation Center's Guide to Grantseeking on the Web This is one of the many works published the Foundation Center. It begins by taking you on a tour of the Foundation Center's website and then discusses independent foundations, grantmaking pubic charities and community foundations on the Internet, corporate giving on the Internet, and government funding resources on the Internet. Further information is found about prospecting for individual donors online, online magazines, newsletters on philanthropy and grants, and discussion groups on foundations. At the end are appendixes that give discriptions of many private foundations, grantmaking public charities, community foundations, corporate grantmakers, and nonprofit organizations on the web.
R 658.15224 M66P3	Proposal Planning and Writing This is more of a how to do book than a listing of resources of charitable giving. It has a section on how to find sponsors and Planning proposals, writing private foundation and corporate proposals, writing government proposals, and then the final steps of writing techniques and editing techniques.
R 378.34 G76r	The Grants Register This is the complete guide to postgraduate funding worldwide. It is divided into sections. The first section contains the listing of awards, and gives the name of the organization, address, telephone and fax numbers, email address and website. Also contact information is presented and a description of the program and the amount of the award is given. There is also a subject section, which gives the awards by subject.
R 658.15224 B32H4	The "How to" Grants Manual This book takes you through the process of obtaining a grant. It starts out with chapters on how to find time to write a grant proposal, developing grant-winning ideas, and choosing the correct marketplace. Part 2 covers government funding sources, and part 3 covers private funding sources.
R 338.973 C28	Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance "The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance is a government-wide compendium of Federal programs, projects, services, and activities that provide assistance or benefits to the American public. It contains financial and nonfinancial assistance programs administered by departments and establishments of the Federal government....The primary purpose of the Catalog is to assist users in identifying programs that meet specific objectives of the potential applicant, and to obtain general information on Federal assistance programs." The 2005 edition is the latest that the library has in print, and you can use the online version at: http://12.46.245.173/cfda/cfda.html .

Circulating Collection Works

658.155224 B32HO2	How to Evaluate and Improve your Grants Effort This is published by the American Council on Education and so it focuses on education. It contains chapters on developing and maintaining a grants program, the purpose of the grants office, measuring the success of your grants system, increasing faculty and staff involvement in proposal development and grant development, and more.
658.15224 B68h	How to Write Prosals that Produce This book contains chapters on the nature of proposals, the proposal audience, strategies for success, the writing process, proposal format and appearance, proposal evaluations, and oral presentations.
658.15224 G27f	The Foundation Center's Guide to Proposal Writing This is a basic how to book on proposal writing written by the Foundation Center.
658.15224 SA5P	Persuasive Business Proposals The subtitle of this books is "writing to wini more customers, clients, and contracts." It does not focus exclusively on writing for grants, but the priciples taught here should still apply to the grant proposal process.
001.44 F91w	Writing Successful Science Proposals The subtitle of this books is "writing to wini more customers, clients, and contracts." It contains chapters on how to get started on a proposal, basic organization and effective communication, developing your conceptual framework and significance statement, the title may be more important than you think, your objectives and hypotheses, experimental design and methods, preparing an budget, and ethics and research.
001.44 L79p3	Proposals that Work: A Guide for Planning Dissertations and Grant Proposals This book outlines the proposal process for dissertations and in chapter 9 it outlines the grant proposal.

How Our Books are Arranged

We use the Dewey Decimal System to Arrange our books in the library. The Dewey system arranges every subject under a number system, where each number in a 1,000 number classification scheme corresponds to a specific subject. Here are the ten main classes of the Dewey Decimal System:

000-099	GENERALITIES
100-199	PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY
200-299	RELIGION
300-399	SOCIAL SCIENCES
400-499	LANGUAGE
500-599	NATURAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS
600-699	TECHNOLOGY (Applied Sciences)
700-799	THE ARTS
800-899	LITERATURE
900-999	HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY

Government Documents

The United States government publishes many materials each year. Different agencies of the government publish research, handbooks, how-to-manuals, periodicals maps, statistics and reports. Congress publishes results of Congressional hearings. These are all called Government documents. Our government documents are housed in a special room on Floor 2A of the library.

AE 2.106/3

Code of Federal Regulations

This source provides a subject arrangement of current regulations promulgated by federal agencies. Codified text. It is organized by title. The titles that are of interest to Grants:

Title 2: Grants and Agreements
Title 41: Public Contracts and Property Management

You can also search the Code of Federal Regulations on the Internet at

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/index.html.

AE 2.106:

Federal Register
Published every business day. Contains updates on legislation, rules, and regulations, Presidential documents, proposed rules, notices of hearings, announcements new federal grants, and much more. You can access the Federal Register on the Internet at: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html

Many of the government publications are now available online. See the Internet Resources for the address of many online government documents.

MAGAZINES, JOURNALS, NEWSPAPERS

A magazine or journal is something that is published periodically, and so in libraries they are called periodicals. A magazine is a periodical that can be published daily, weekly, or monthly. Magazines usually contain fairly short articles written in a style of writing that is easy to understand. There are usually lots or advertising in a magazine. A journal, however, contains the results of research or experiments done. Usually in a journal article there is data presented about a research project, and the language can be quite technical, and there are few advertisements.

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.

Basement	International Index An index to periodical literature in the social sciences and humanities. The index begins in 1907 and ends in 1964.
basement	Social Sciences and Humanities Index An index to articles appearing in several hundred magazines and journals. Coverage begins in 1965 and continues to 1974.
Basement	Humanities Index An index to articles found in several hundred magazines and journals in the humanities. Coverage begins in 1974 and continues until 1993.
Basement	Social Sciences Index An index to articles found in several hundred magazines and journals in the social sciences. Coverage begins in 1974 and continues until 1998.
Basement	Art Index An index to articles found in several hundred magazines and journals in the arts. Coverage begins in 1967 and continues until 2002.
Basement	Poole's Index to Periodical Literature A guide to periodical literature published in 1802-1906.This is a hard index to use, so see a reference librarian.
Basement	Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature A general subject index to about 200 popular magazines. We have this index from 1915 to the present.
Basement	New York Times Index Index to the New York Times, a major national newspaper. The library has the New York Times from 1851 to the present on microfilm. The index is subject arranged. Paper indexes begin in 1929, and from 1851 to 1928 they are on microfiche. There is an online Index to the New York Times available at: http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nytimes/advancedsearch.html

ONLINE PERIODICAL INDEXES

In the 1980's many Paper Periodical Indexes became digitized and now most periodical indexes are online on the Internet. In this form they can still be called indexes, but they are usually referred to as DATABASES.

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

FirstSearch	Article First This database contains citations to articles that appear in journals in science, technology, social science, business and humanities, and popular culture. With over 15,000 journals indexed, this is one of the largest journal databases in the SE Library's collection. It covers from 1990 to the present, and is updated daily.
EBSCOHost	Academic Search Premier The SE Library has subscribed to a new database called Academic Search Premier. This database has been designed specifically for academic institutions and EBSCOHost claims that, it is “the world’s largest scholarly, multidisciplinary full text database.” Indeed, it is larger that the database that it is replacing, Academic Search Elite. It contains full text for nearly 4,550 journals and magazines, whereas Elite has only 2050. It has indexing and abstracting for more than 8,200 titles. It contains full text for many journals back to the 1990’s and for one hundred journals there is full text back to 1975.
EBSCOhost, and FirstSearch	ERIC ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, is a very large education database that has been around since 1966. It was funded by the U.S. Department of Education until 2003, and since has been in limbo. So the database is current as of the end of 2003. IT contains over 1 million records in two types: (1) ERIC Documents, which are classroom guides, results of research not published, dissertations, manuals, results or research, and (2) Journal articles from almost 1000 journals. A new contractor for ERIC, called CSC, is currently putting 2004-2005 materials into the ERIC database. About 107,000 of the ERIC Documents from 1993-2004 are available full-text online. There is another online version at the Department of Education website, at: http://www.eric.ed.gov/ For more information on ERIC, go to the following website: http://www.se.edu/lib/eric.htm
EBSCOhost	Professional Development Collection Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of more than 550 full text journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.
EBSCOhost	PsychInfo PsychInfo contains nearly two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which dates back to the late 1800's includes international material selected from nearly 2,000 periodicals in over 35 languages. More than 60,000 records are added each year.
EBSCOhost	PsycARTICLES "PsycARTICLES is a definitive source of searchable full text articles on current issues in psychology. The PsycARTICLES database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. The database contains more than 39,000 searchable full text articles from 44 journals published by the American Psychological Association and 8 from allied organizations. It contains all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each of the 52 journals. Examples of titles offered in PsycARTICLES include: American Psychologist, Behavioral Neuroscience, Canadian Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychoanalytic Psychology, Psychotherapy: Theory/Research/Practice/Training, etc. Coverage spans from 1985 to the present."
EBSCOhost	Communication and Mass Media Complete "Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth in the communication and mass media fields."
FirstSearch	H.W. Wilson Select Full Text Covers 2,100 periodicals from 1994 to the present. Contains records from: *Readers'* *Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science* *Abstracts, and Business Abstracts* and other Wilson databases. It is updated weekly. An important feature of this database is that all articles are full text.
EBSCOhost	MasterFILE Premier Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,050 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes more than 350 full text reference books, 84,606 biographies, 88,463 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost
EBSCOhost	MAS Ultra School Edition Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text nearly 600 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating back as far as 1975 for key magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, 268 full text reference books, 84,606 biographies, 88,463 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost..
FirstSearch	MLA Bibliography This database is compiled by the Modern Language Association, and is one of the top indexes of literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. It contains over 1.3 million citations to over 6,500 periodicals and other publications. It covers from 1963 to the present, and is updated 9 times a year.
ABI-Inform	ABI-Inform This is one of the best business databases in the world, with almost 4000 journals, magazines, trade publications, newspapers, covered. It also covers dissertations and reports. It is one of the few databases in which the full text of dissertations in business topics are available. It not only covers business topics, but does a good job with computers, safety, and aviation.
Criminal Justice Periodicals Index	Criminal Justice Periodicals Index This is a database containing journals from criminal justice.
NewsBank	NewsBank World News "Access World News from NewsBank provides full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international sources, each with its own distinctive focus offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues. Never before could researchers pinpoint information so easily for one source or country, or any combination specified by the user."

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.

What the Periodical Databases part of the Electronic Resources Page looks like on the SE Library's Webpage. You can see the links to EBSCOhost and FirstSearch

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

(the steps from here on pertain only to online databases)

Databases have changed much in the last ten years. it used to be that databases contained only the citation (information needed to find the article) and sometimes a summary, or abstract of the article. Starting about ten years ago, database vendors began to offer some articles in full-text, that means that the entire article was available online, making it unnecessary to find the article in a library. Now there are fewer databases that offer no titles in full-text, and so after doing research in one of SE's databases, check to see if the article that you are interested is available full-text. There will be a link that say something like this: HTML full text, or PDF full text. When you click on the link, you are presented with the full-text of the article, and you are finished. What if the full-text of the article is not available in the database that you are searching? If that is the case, then we move onto Step Three

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

If you can't find an article full-text in one database, then look to see what other databases have a journal title available full-text. You do that by checking another database called A-to-Z A-to-Z is located at: http://atoz.ebsco.com/home.asp?id=seosu, or you can also get to A-to-Z from the electronic resources page at: http://www.se.edu/lib/electres.htm. A-to-Z is a list of journals that are available full-text, either in an online database that we subscribe to or available in the library in paper in the basement on in microform.

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

The library subscribes to almost one thousand journals, magazines, and newspapers. In many cases the journal article that you want is located in a journal that we have downstairs in the basement, or on microform. How do you check to see if the library has a journal? By checking A-to-Z, or checking a copy of the SE Library's Periodicals Holding List http://www.se.edu/lib/perhold.htm

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

If you have determined that you cannot locate a journal article full-text on any online database, AND the SE library does not have the journal that the article is in, then what do you do? Give up? You can, but if the article is an important one for your research, you would still like to get it, right? There is one last way for you to get a copy of this article. You can obtain a copy of an article from almost any journal by using a service called Interlibrary Loan. Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is a service that the SE Library provides to students where you can ask (through us) another library that has the journal title that you want . The process of doing this is simple.

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,

RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET FOR GRANTS

CQ Researcher Online
http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/

This database contains reports on topics of current interest

The Digital Book Index
http://www.digitalbookindex.com/search001a.htm

Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.com/

The Online Books Page
http://www.digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

The Online Books Page is a project founded by John Mark Ockerbloom of the University of Pennsylvania. This projects provides links to full text content that is available free online. There are over 20,000 books here. There are also archives of full text content from many periodicals, including many that were published in the nineteenth century.

Electronic Resources
http://www.se.edu/lib/electres.htm

This page contains links to electronic databases that the SE Library subscribes to or free databases that were put on this page.

Grants Resources on the Internet
http://www.se.edu/lib/grants8.htm

This is a page that has been put together by librarians that contain a list of links to resources pertaining to Grants.

Government Documents
http://www.se.edu/lib/govdocs/govdoc%20home.html

This is a page of links to government documents, which are documents and databases published by the United States government on many different topics. There are many useful reports and statistics published by the government on the Internet.

NetLibrary
http://www.netlibrary.com/

Last Updated: June 23, 2008