RESOURCES
ON CHILD DEVELOPMENT
SEARCHING
FOR ARTICLES
The
library subscribes to many periodicals in various formats: microforms,
print, CD-Rom and online via the Internet. Please check the library's
periodical listings (at the reference desk) for date of publication
and formats available. The following are periodicals that may be relevant
to your research on child development.
Relevant
Periodicals in the Library
The Library subscribes to more than twenty journal related to the field
of children and youth. Many of the journals are available only online.
A sample of journal titles:
Child Development
Child Life
Child Welfare
Childhood
Education
Cobblestone
Exceptional
Children
International
Journal of Early Childhood
Parenting
Young Children
Other
Subject-Related Reference Publications in the Library
The
following reference sources are in multi-volume sets:
Encyclopedia
of Sociology
Encyclopedia
of American Social History
CQ Researcher
Education
Index
Humanities
Index
Social Sciences
Index
To
Search for Articles in General on Child Development
To search the magazine/newspaper databases (Proquest, Newsbank, Infotrac
Health Reference, etc.), use words that are appropriate to the field
and sub-fields, including:
Major topics
of child development (i.e., child psychology, infant development,
child depression, etc.)
Names of
experts in the field of child development.
Names of
organizations or institutions involved in the field.
Check in
the Library of Congress Subject Headings set (the five big red books
on the stand), dictionaries, thesauri and subject-related books
for the right words to use.
SEARCHING FOR BOOKS ON CHILD DEVELOPMENT
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The Long Beach City College Library catalog is Web-based and searchable
via the Internet. The Library's Web site URL is: http://lib.lbcc.edu.
Use "Keyword" search or "Subject " search to
browse the catalog. For example, you may use keywords such as: child
development, Jean Piaget, exceptional children, and infant development,
etc. Consult the Reference Librarian for suggestions of other topics.
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Any one Library of Congress Classification Number (or Call Number)
will not be inclusive of all books on the subject in this Library.
Variances in the focus of books result in their being cataloged
with different call numbers. For example, a search on the subject
of "child development " will show books with the following
call numbers:
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HM Sociology
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BL-BX Religion
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L Education
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R Medicine
SEARCHING
FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET
Use
a Search Engine such as Altavista (http://www.altavista.com) when you
know the exact
terms or names of your topic.
Enter two
or more related words, each with a + in front of it to specify your
search.
Search for
phrases by putting double quotes around two or more words, for example:
+child
+depression
+"child cognitive" +development
Put an asterisk
* after the root word to find plurals or other words beginning with
the root.
Use subject
directories such as Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com) or Internet indexes
such as Librarian's Index to the Internet (http://www.lii.org) for
browsing or when you are not sure of the terms or names. Indexes
lead you from the general subject to the specific sub-topic.
Web
sites relating to Child Development
created
by Kim Barclay
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