"One basic formula for understanding the Community is this:
Take five broken empires, add the sixth one later, and make one big neo-colonial empire out of it all.'"
Johan Galtung, "The European Community, a Superpower in the Making", 1973, p. 16
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Literature 19 : Cultural Identity in the European Union (SC)
finding books:
Tripod
To locate books at the Tri-College Libraries:
4. Finally, search by those subject headings.
1. Start with a KEYWORD search.
2. Look at relevant items.
3. Note the subject headings assigned to those items.
4. Finally, search by those subject headings.
4. Finally, search by those subject headings.
Once you identify books you would like to check out, write down - or text yourself - the book title, location, and call number of the book. Then use the call number to find the book in McCabe Library.
- A-G call numbers are on the lower level of the library
- H-K call numbers are on the second floor of the library.
- L-Z call numbers are on the third floor of the library.
If all copies of a book in Tripod are checked out, use E-Z Borrow to request the book from a partner library. These books are delivered in 2-7 days.
finding journal articles:
Literature resource center
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
Historical abstracts
Provider: EBSCO
Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, book reviews and dissertations that cover world history from 1450 to the present (excluding the U.S. and Canada which are covered in "America: History and Life"). Includes publications from 1953-present.
MLA international bibliography
Provider: ProQuest
Provides citations to journal articles, books, working papers, conference proceedings, bibliographies, and other materials. Areas covered include literature, language, linguistics, film, theatre and folklore. Covers 1926-present.
ProQuest Research Library
Provider: ProQuest
Provides citations and full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular in scope. Covers 1971-present.
International index to the performing arts
Publisher: [Alexandria, Va.] : Chadwyck-Healey, Inc.,
Provides abstracts and full-text to journal articles. Covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry including dance, film, television, theater, opera, and broadcasting. Covers 1864-present.
JSTOR
Provides full-text and page images from many of the top journals in most academic disciplines. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.
International index to the performing arts
Publisher: [Alexandria, Va.] : Chadwyck-Healey, Inc.,
Provides abstracts and full-text to journal articles. Covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry including dance, film, television, theater, opera, and broadcasting. Covers 1864-present.
Periodicals index online (Chadwyck)
Index to journal articles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, including some published as far back as 1770. Includes periodicals in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, and other Western languages.
getting the articles you've found:
In MLA, and indeed most databases that don't have the full-text of the article, there is a 
icon next to each citation. Click on it to find out if the article is available in full-text online from the campus where you are doing your research, to search Tripod for the journal in print, or to request the item through interlibrary loan. If does not appear in your database, use Tripod to search for the journal title in your citation.
icon next to each citation. Click on it to find out if the article is available in full-text online from the campus where you are doing your research, to search Tripod for the journal in print, or to request the item through interlibrary loan. If does not appear in your database, use Tripod to search for the journal title in your citation.If the journal is in print or online at one of the other two schools, you can request that the journal or article be sent to you. If a journal in not in Tripod, you can request the article using ILL. In both cases, follow the directions on the EZ-Borrow/ILL page
reference sources:
We have a large number of subject encyclopedias on various topics. You may be able to get some good background information easily by consulting them. Since your topics are so diverse, I've only included a few sample titles here. To look for reference titles on your own, do an Advanced Search in Tripod and limit your search to SC Reference Collections.
An atlas of world affairs
Publisher: London ; Routledge, 2007.
An Atlas of World Affairs describes the people, factions and events that have shaped the modern world from the Second World War to the present day. International issues and conflicts are placed in their geographical contexts through the integration of nearly one hundred maps.
Eurostat: 50 years of figures on Europe
Publisher: Luxembourg : Office for Official Pubs. of the E.C., 2003.
assembling a bibliography, citing sources, avoiding plagiarism:
Swarthmore Libraries' research FAQs
Includes a guide to citation styles and instructions for using the EndNote citation software package.
guide to citing sources, from Duke University
This guide deals with the proper way to cite various kinds of sources, demonstrating all the major citation styles (MLA, Chicago, Turabian, APA). See the "Assembling a List of Works Cited" guide for help with putting together a bibliography.
citation, paraphrasing, and avoiding plagarism
A handout from the Writing Center, explaining how to avoid plagiarism and when citations are necessary.
getting more help:
Contact Information: Anne Garrison, agarris1, x8492
If you need research assistance, I am at the Reference desk on Tuesdays 3:00-5:00 and Thursday nights, 7:00-10:00. You can also make an appointment and meet with me in my office, which is on Level 1 of McCabe in the far southeast corner. Or is it the northwest corner? I really don't know, but if you just keep walking around, you're bound to find me eventually!