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Reference Collection

   The reference collection provides background information on your topic and other topics that relate to it. Use these books to place your topic into broader contexts (historical, literary, and social- to name a few) and remember to consult the bibliographies for further reading!

U.S. History

American decades 10v. [RR E169.12 .A419 1994]

Dictionary of American history 10v. [RR E174 .D52 2003]

Encyclopedia of multiculturalism 8v. [RR E184.A1 E58 1994]

War History

Americans at war: Society, culture, and the homefront 4v. [RR E181 .A453 2005]

The Oxford companion to World War II [RR D740 .O94 1995]

The Pacific war encyclopedia 2v. [RR D767.9 .D86 1998]

Asian American Studies

     History

Atlas of Asian-American history [RR E184.O6 A89 2002]

Asian American Almanac [RR E184 .O6 A824 1995]

Japanese American history: an A-to-Z reference from 1868 to the present [RR E184.J3 J3355 1993]

     Literature and Arts

Asian American Literature: Reviews and criticism of works by American writers of Asian descent [RR PS153 .A84 A82 1995]

Asian Pacific American heritage: A companion to literature and the arts
[RR PS153 .A84 A87 1999]

Encyclopedia of Asian-American literature [RR PS153 .A84 2007]

...and find these reference-type books up on the 5th Floor

Japanese American internment during World War II : a history and reference guide [D769.8.A6 N4 2002]

Japanese Americans, from relocation to redress [D769.8.A6 J364 1986]

Japanese American World War II evacuation oral history project 5v. [D769.8.A6 J363 1991]

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You can search the catalog by clicking on the icon above. While you may want to start searching BRIDGE by keyword, eventually you might want to search using Library of Congress Subject Headings.

Here's a convenient way to find relevant Subject Headings: Begin with an initial search using keywords and click on a title that seems appropriate to your research. On the information screen for that title, you will find a list of subjects located below the location and call number information. These subjects are hyperlinks and clicking on them will take you to a list of other books that are organized under that general subject.

Here are some subjects that might help you get started:

Asian Americans -- Cultural Assimilation
Asian Americans -- Ethnicity or Ethnic Identity
Asian Americans -- Social Conditions

Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.
Japanese Americans -- History.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans.

Note: subject headings often have many other subheadings, so be sure to browse the list to see what looks best for your topic.

To locate books, journals and magazines not available at St. Olaf or Carleton, try searching WorldCat. WorldCat catalogs items in libraries across the country and around the world. You can request items through Inter-Library loan from here or check to see if something is available in a library nearby.

Indexes and Databases

General

Academic Search Premier
A multidisciplinary database with access to over 8040 scholarly and popular publications, many in full-text. Covers 1975 to present.

Expanded Academic ASAP
Another multidisciplinary database that includes scholarly journals, news magazines and newspapers with many articles in full text.

JSTOR
Full text access to digitized journals in a variety of disciplines. But be aware- JSTOR is not for current information. This database maintains a moving wall which prevents us from accessing journal content newer than 3-5 years old

Project Muse
An index to and full text of journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and other scholarly publishers.

Subject Specific

     History

America: History & Life
Scholarly index to articles on all aspects of U.S. and Canadian history, including recent events.

     Political Science

PAIS: Public Affairs Information Service
An index to public policy and public affairs articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories. Covers 1972 to the present. Print index also available in Rolvaag Reference Room (RR H96.P8; 1915-present).

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
This database "provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy."

     Sociology

Sociological Abstracts
An index to 2600 sociology journals plus book abstracts and review citations. Covers 1963-present.
     Print index also available in the Basement level Reference Storage collection from 1953 - 1994.      [RR HM1 .S6]

Newspapers

     Contemporary

ProQuest Newsstand Complete
Collects newspaper articles from over 750 publications (including the New York Times and Wall St. Journal). Coverage of some titles goes back to 1977.

Los Angeles Times (1881 - 1986)

New York Times (1851 - 2005)

Both the Los Angeles and New York Times offer"full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue."

     Historical

Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature (1890 - ) [RR AI3 .R48]
Index to magazines and reviews arranged in one alphabet that includes both authors and subjects.

American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900
A collection of digitized magazines and journals published in the United States between 1741 and 1900. APS includes more than 1,000 titles such as Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, the first American professional journal, and numerous popular magazines. A complete title list is available on the Web.

Early American Newspapers Digital
America's Historical Newspapers provides access to "cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers" from 1690 to 1922.

Los Angeles Times (1881 - 1986)
Offers "full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue."

New York Times (1851 - 2005)

Google News Archive Search
Searches newspapers and news magazines, some of which date back 200+ years. Includes both free and pay-per-article content. St. Olaf subscribes to ProQuest and the New York Times (see in this list). For articles that aren't freely available otherwise, St. Olaf students, faculty, and staff can request a copy from interlibrary loan.

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Online Resources

Digital Collections

Digital collections are a fantastic source for digitized photographs, maps, newspapers, posters, letters, oral histories, and other primary source materials that you can use to enrich your research.

The following web sites have been assembled by universities, non-profit organizations and government institutions and can be considered scholarly sources.

The sites collected here deal specifically with Japanese Americans, but collections like these can be found for a tremendous variety of subjects.

For more information on digital collections and how to find them,
see the library's Digital Resources web page.

The War Relocation Authority and the Incarceration of Japanese-Americans
During World War II
A collection of photographs, oral histories, chronologies, and documents from The Truman Presidential Library's regarding the imprisonment of Japanese-Americans during WWII. It enumerates the chain of legal decisions that led to the internment.

Internment of Japanese Americans in Concentration Camps
Provides a good overview of legislative history, statutes, and cases involved in the Japanese American relocation process.

The Japanese American Archival Collection
Includes over "5,000 documents, photographs, artifacts and exhibit materials housed in the California State University, Sacramento Library, Department of Special Collections and University Archives."

Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives
Provides access to the archival and manuscript holdings of numerous California archives and museums featuring digital images, electronic texts and oral histories. JARDA contains personal diaries, letters, photographs, drawings, camp newsletters, reports, photographs, and WRA administrative documents.

"Suffering Under a Great Injustice:" Ansel Adam's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
Presents digital scans of both Adams's 242 original negatives and his 209 photographic prints.

A More Perfect Union
This Smithsonian web site provides personal narrative, music, timelines, and photographs of the Japanese relocation during World War II.

National Archives and Records Administration
Maintained by an independent Federal agency (NARA), it strives to be "America's national record keeper" whose mission is " to ensure ready access to the essential evidence that documents the rights of American citizens." Here is a direct link to the Internment and Relocation records.

The Online Archive of California
Provides access to "historical materials from a variety of California institutions, including museums, historical societies, and archives. Over 120,000 images; 50,000 pages of documents, letters, and oral histories; and 8,000 guides to collections are available." Here is a direct link to a photo archive of the War Relocation Authority.

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The Annotated Bibliography

For help on writing an annotated bibliography, see How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography from Cornell University Library.

Citation Guides

Consult the Citation Guides and Style Manuals page on the library web site for examples of how to cite various types of resources (articles, books, web sites, etc.) in a number of different style formats, including MLA

If you're feeling interactive, you might want to try this short tutorial on how to compose citations in the MLA style (by Ielleen R. Miller and Jonathan D. Grubb from Eastern Washington University) at:

http://support.library.ewu.edu/reference/tutorial/flash/citation.html

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Interlibrary Loan

Any item not owned by St. Olaf or Carleton may be ordered through Interlibrary Loan (ILL) provided you allow enough time. Articles requested through ILL typically take from 2-7 days to arrive, while books can take quite a bit longer. Allow for 2 weeks of delivery time when requesting books. If you are using our ILL software, ILLiad, for the first time, you will need to register on the login page before you can request materials. Contact the ILL office at ill@stolaf.edu if you have any questions.