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Margaret Schaus, Reference Librarian and Bibliographer (HC)

Sections:

Finding Background Information
Finding Local Government Information
Finding Newspapers
Finding Policy Analysis
Statistics
Selected Reports and Data from Think Tanks and Universities

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Wr Prog 143 : Suburban Politics (HC)

Finding Background Information:

Annual review of political science (Palo Alto, Calif. : Online)

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1998-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1998-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1998-present.

Publisher: Palo Alto, Calif. : Annual Reviews, Inc.,

This journal published literature reviews on topics across the field of political science. It gives you access to the field through the discussion of important books, journal articles and reports relevant to your topic.

Encyclopedia of urban America

Publisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c1998.

This two-volume encyclopedia provides articles on topics ("African Americans in Suburbs," "Suburban Ideal,"and "township.") There are also articles on some major cities and prominent suburbs as well as biographies of historians, architects, and activists.

Finding Local Government Information:

Local Governments (USA.gov)

Find links here to directory pages (American Hometowns), lists of mayors (U.S. Mayors), organizations, and statistics.

Local Governments and Politics (University of Michigan Library)

The University of Michigan Government Documents Library has put together this extensive guide to resources. There are sections on directories, government publications, municipal codes and laws, government associations, policy literature, and statistics.

Municipal Codes Online (Seattle Public Library)

A directory of links for municipal codes available on the Web.

State and Local Government on the Net

A geographic and topical listing of government agencies including individual cities, towns, and other municipalities.

WorldCat

Provider: OCLC

A catalog of the holdings of books, journals, and other materials held by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) member libraries. Check for municipal reports and other publications as well as for material about your town.

Finding Newspapers:

Access world news

Provider: NewsBank

Newspaper collections from NewsBank provide full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for more than 600 newspapers around the United States. Database generally covers 1977 to the present.

HomeTownNews.com

Provides direct links to nearly 4 thousand daily and weekly newspapers in the U. S. Many charge for articles, but their archives may allow you to identify important articles you can get free on microfilm through Interlibrary Loan http://tripod.brynmawr.edu/illb/

LexisNexis academic

Provider: LN

Full-text of thousands of U. S. newspapers going back in most cases to 1980.

Membership Directory (Suburban Newspapers of America)

This membership page gives information on over two thousand suburban newspapers with URLs to their Web sites.

Finding Policy Analysis:

Avery index to architectural periodicals

Provides citations to journals in the fields of architecture, city planning, interior design, historic preservation and archaeology. Covers 1930-present.

HUD USER Database ( U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development)

"The HUD USER Database is the only bibliographic database exclusively dedicated to housing and community development issues. It contains more than 10,000 full-abstract citations to research reports, articles, books, monographs, and data sources in housing policy, building technology, economic development, urban planning, and a host of other relevant fields." (Website- About)

PAIS international

Provider: CSA

Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, government documents, statistical compilations, committee reports, intergovernmental, and private organizations reports. Areas covered include political, economic, social and public policy issues. Covers 1915-present.

PolicyFile

Provider: Chadwyck-Healey

Provides online access to full-text reports on public policy research and analysis from think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers.Covers a wide range of topics.

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.

Tripod Catalog

Use the Tripod Catalog to look for relevant books owned by Haverford, Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore.

The following subject searches are a sampling of possibilities. To find materials on a topic, try doing a keyword search in the Tripod Catalog to find relevant materials and then using the subject headings assigned to those materials to find more material.

          suburbs united states [Subject Search]

          suburb* environment* [Keyword Search]

          evanston illinois [Keyword Search]

Tripod - For locating books, journals, and other materials held in the Tri-College libraries. Delivery within the trico usually arrives in one or two days. Use "Request" option. You can mark and then email or print records for multiple items.

WorldCat - An important place to look for many policy materials not owned by the Tri-College Libraries.

Interlibrary Loan - Request items that are not available in Tripod on this page. Use Article Delivery for journal articles not in the three colleges. Note that PALCI E-Z Borrow provides only books. Interlibrary Loan (ILL) supplies books not in E-Z Borrow as well as reports and documents. E-Z Borrow takes around three days to deliver your requested books, and ILL may take somewhat longer.

Statistics:

American FactFinder

Hosted by the U.S. Census Bureau, this website provides access to population, housing, economic and geographic data from the latest Decennial Census, the Economic Censuses and Surveys, and the American Community Survey. Users can view reference maps and create comparison tables and thematic maps which can be downloaded or printed.

FedStats (U. S. government)

This site gathers together data from more than 100 government agencies. It makes searching for statistics easier because it treats material by topic, and it links to relevant sets of data across governmental departments.

State of the Cities Data Systems (U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development)

This search page provides statistical data on suburbs as well as cities and metropolitan areas. There are a variety of economic, demographic, and housing statistics as well as data on crime.

Selected Reports and Data from Think Tanks and Universities:

Are Suburban Firms More Likely to Discriminate Against African Americans? (University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty)

This Web page includes references to related articles as well as a link to the University of Wisconsin Institute paper.
ABSTRACT: This paper presents a test of the hypothesis that employers in suburban locations are more likely to discriminate against African Americans than are employers located in central cities. Using a difference-in-difference framework, we compare central-city/suburban differences in racial hiring outcomes for firms where a white person is in charge of hiring (white employers, for short) to similar geographic differences in outcomes for firms where a black person is in charge of hiring (black employers). We find that both suburban black and white employers hire fewer blacks than their central-city counterparts. Moreover, the central-city/suburban hiring gap among black employers is as large as, or larger than, that of white employers. Suburban black employers, however, receive many more applications from blacks and hire more blacks than do white firms in either location.

One Fifth of America (Brookings Institution)

A report on America's older, "inner ring" suburbs by Robert Puentes and David Warren.

The State of the Nation's Cities: A Comprehensive Database on American Cities and Suburbs

Rutgers University collaborated with HUD to produce a detailed statistical database on 77 major cities and their suburbs.

The State of the Inner Suburbs: An Examination of Suburban Baltimore, 1980 - 2000 (University of Maryland)