Using Catalogs:
Many books about child and family studies are located on the top
level of the library in the General Collection, under call numbers
beginning with HQ.
The Young
Peoples Collection of children's literature and the Curriculum
Library of teaching resources are located on the lower level.
Use the WSU online catalog to
find location and availability of books and other media in Stewart
Library.
Interlibrary Loan:
If we do not own a particular book or article you need, we will
borrow it for you from another library through Interlibrary
Loan.
Reference resources include encyclopedias,
dictionaries and other materials you use to "refer" to.
Use these resources for background information on a topic.
Examples include:
- Encyclopedia of Family Life - Middle Level, REF
HQ534 .E55 1999
- The Encyclopedia of Parenting Theory - Middle Level,
REF HQ755.8 .E523 1999
- The Family in America - Middle Level, REF HQ536 .H365
2001
- International Encyclopedia of Marriage & Family
- Middle Level, REF HQ9 .E52 2003
- Handbook of Applied Development Science - Middle Level,
REF HQ767.9 .H346 2003
- Handbook of Family Measurement Techniques - Middle Level,
REF HQ728 .H267 2001
Article Databases
Use Article
Databases to find magazine and journal articles. Search
by subject or keyword in these indexes. Academic
Search Premier is great for full-text articles online.
All databases and most articles are available off-campus.
To access from home, go to the library's webpage (http://library.weber.edu),
click on Database Finder under Quicklinks, choose your database
and click on the link. You will be asked to enter your student
ID and password (the same one you use on the portal and for Wildcat
mail.)
Newspapers
Use Newspaper databases
to find newspaper articles by subject or keyword. Deseret
News, Salt Lake Tribune,
and the Standard Examiner
are all on the Web. For a list of WSU newspaper databases,
go to the Database
Finder, click on the Subject menu, scroll down and click on
Newspapers.
Browsing Current Periodicals
Current magazines and
journals can be browsed in the HQ area of Current
Periodicals on the Middle Level of the library. Bound volumes
of older issues are shelved on the top level in the General Collection,
also under HQ. Some of the journals are:
- Adolescence HQ1 .A239
- Family Relations HQ1 .F1982
- Journal of Marital and Family Therapy HQ1 .J8622
- Journal of Marriage and Family HQ1 .M3592
- Journal of Youth and Adolescence HQ1 .J866
Electronic Journals
The WSU Stewart Library
also provides access to thousands of periodicals. Most articles
can be read directly on your web browser (like Internet Explorer
or Firefox), although for many you will need to have the Adobe Acrobat
Reader. Most computers come with the program, but if yours
doesn't, you can download it for free here: download
Adobe Reader.
Some titles are:
(Please note that dates available vary - check Ejournals
for all options)
If you already know the
title of the journal:
- Go to the library's Ejournals
list
- Enter the title of the journal in the search box and click the
search button
- You may also search our electronic journals holdings in the
online catalog using the
Journal Alphabetical search; an icon saying ejournals
will appear in the catalog record if the journal is available
online.
As you do your research,
keep the following tips in mind:
- Clearly identify your information need
- Identify key words and search terms
to match your topic
- Develop search statements using advanced search techniques
- Boolean logic, adjacency searching and truncation
- Use the Online catalog to
find books
- Use Education
and Social Sciences
Databases to find magazine and journal articles
- Go back to the online catalog to see if the journals are in
Stewart Library and where they are located
- Use Interlibrary loan
to get materials that are not in Stewart Library
- Use search
engines to find Web information
- Carefully
evaluate the information you find for usefulness and quality
- Revise your search terms and strategy to expand or narrow your
results, be creative, look in other areas
- Use appropriate style to document and cite your
research
- Ask for HELP
via phone or email
