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HISTORY 183S: Asian Americans and Civil Rights: Find Books

Research guide for Dr. Mazumdar's course, spring 2014

Beyond Duke

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Worldcat
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Center for Research Libraries (CRL)
A consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries that acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, documents, archives, etc.   Materials can be borrowed on extended loan via Interlibrary Loan.

Search TRLN Search across the catalogs of Duke, UNC, NCSU and NCCU 

 

Using the Online Catalog

The Duke University Libraries catalog is the place to start to identify books, microforms, journals and other resources held in the Libraries' collections.

Be sure to use the facets on the left-hand sidebar.  This will allow you to limit your search by format, language, and location.

Hint:  If you find a book that matches your research interest, be sure to look at the subject headings.  These subject headings may lead you to other useful materials.  For example:

Asian Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Asian Americans -- Civil rights
United States -- Race relations

Finding Primary Sources in Catalog

 To identify these resources in the online catalog, look for the subdivisions, correspondence, interviews, sources, diaries, archives and personal narratives. Any of these terms can be used in the keyword search mode; for example, asian americans personal narratives.