This research guide is a partial list of materials available to assist you in beginning a research project. It is arranged by broad categories commonly required for assignments. The materials are shelved in numerical order in the Youth Services Reference collection.

Ask a Librarian if you have any questions or need assistance.

General Encyclopedias J REF
at the Homework Center

• New Book of Knowledge
• World Book Encyclopedia
• The Grolier Student Encyclopedia

The West J REF

364.1092 MAC Outlaws, Mobsters and Crooks
364.10922 VIL Villains and Outlaws
920.073 MOS Profiles in American History
973 AME American Heritage History of the United States
978 AME The American West
978 ENC Encyclopedia of the American West
978 PEN Westward Expansion
978 WAR The West
978.003 SLA The Cowboy Encyclopedia

Magazines

Additional information may be found in these magazines:

• Apple Seeds
• Calliope
• Cobblestone

Computer Catalog Subject Headings

Continue your research by searching these headings

• West (U.S.)
• Great Plains
• Cowboys—West (U.S.)
• Frontier and pioneer life

Ask a Librarian for additional subject headings.

Browsing the Shelves

Information will be found in different shelf locations based on the subject area. Below is just a small sampling of subject areas. Ask a Librarian for additional locations.

J 978—American West

Electronic Resources & Internet Searches

• Expand your research by searching the online encyclopedias and databases.
• Find Internet sites using Internet Links: Resources for Homework.
• Internet access is available at the Library to students who are registered with a signed Internet Use Permission Form on file.
• Each resource has a different search strategy, so be sure to ask a Librarian to assist you.

Printing articles at the Library:

• Black & white at $.10 a page
• Color at $1.00 a page
• E-mail to your home address at no cost

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