National Library Week!

"Yeah, you can get 50,000 Google results on something, but you can also have a librarian who can point you to the right one and that can be incredibly important"
Neil Gaiman

Contact librarians through IM, text, email or phone.....

Hist 3309 (women&work)

For this project you will need to use a variety of resources.

• For general government information on: Switzerland, England, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Greece, and Australia, you can begin with this list of international government webpages (maintained by Northwestern), the CIA fact book , or the list of UN member countries.
• I would also suggest looking at some reference books on your country and on women's history.
• Here is the Women's studies guide. I would particularly suggest searching Contemporary Women's Issues. If you are interested in how culture is structured around the workplace and women, take a look at Sociology resources, especially Sociological Abstracts.
• In terms of laws and government regulations concerning women in the workplace, take a look at the Political Science guide for legal regulations and at PAIS International and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts for political information.
• For historical looks at this topic, take a look at the History guide especially Historical Abstracts
• In terms of Statistics, try eurostat or search for the statistics gathering arm of the government you are researching (for example, in the U.S.A it is the census) . You can also search Google for WorldBank statistics

Please contact me if you have any questions!
ETA: all databases will require log on with netID

Looking for (brief) biographical information in regards to film & literature

If you are searching for articles that contain biographical information:

• For literature try the Literature Resource Center(log on with netID required)
• For popular culture & film try Pop Culture Universe.(log on with netID required)
• A useful public site to search is AllMovie .
  For the purposes of citation of a web document "if there is no author, begin the reference with the document title." Click here for the MLA handout.
• You can also try searching IMDB, but biographical entries are not always cited, so be careful in using this source. This site is more useful for performance history than biographical information.

If you are searching for books that contain biographical information:

• You can search our catalog for books. Type the name of the person you are looking for information on as one of your search terms, and add biography or autobiography as another search term

• If you have time for Interlibrary Loan you can also use these search terms in Google Books.

Click here to go to the English Guide
Click here to go to the Film Guide
If you have any questions, please contact me or comment on this post.

Public data on Google (statistics & visualizations!!!!!)

You can search through publicly available data/statistics on Google!! This is useful because the U.S. government collects A LOT of data in order to enact legislation..

If you go to Google.com and type in [unemployment rate] or [population] followed by a U.S. state or county, you will see the most recent estimates..

Here is a video that explains how to search:



ALSO: World bank data is now available (INTERNATIONAL statistics!!!)

History students can find more statistical resources here and Communication students can find more statistical resources here

ETA: Google now has a Public Data Explorer, now you can create VISUALIZATIONS with the data sets!! Click on this link to see how the visualization on US unemployment was created.