Multicultural Research Guide Introduction
This section is designed to help you locate books
on multiculturalism. When you are starting your research, we recommend that you
start by finding reference books. These books can help you gain a working
knowledge of your topic. Reference books contain broad factual overviews of a
subject and can help you refine your research topic.
Non-reference books contain more specific, in-depth
coverage of a given subject. To access these books, you can browse the
library's collection or use the online catalog to perform a search for books on
your particular topic. A reference librarian can show you how to perform a
subject heading search, which is a particularly effective way to locate books
on a specific topic.
We welcome your input! If you feel we should add a
book to our collection, use the link at the bottom of this page to share your
suggestion.
Reference BooksBelow is a selection of useful reference books. Please browse Reference area for more titles or ask a reference librarian for assistance.
Encyclopedia of multicultural education Call Number: LC1099.3 .M58 1999Location: Reference Collection Encyclopedia of multicultural psychology Call Number: GN502 .E63 2006Location: Reference Collection The multicultural student's guide to colleges: what everyAfrican-American, Asian-American, Hispanic, and NativeAfrican applicant needs to know about America's topschools.Call Number: L901 .M58 1993Location: Reference Collection Writers of multicultural fiction for young adults: abio-critical sourcebookCall Number: PS374.Y57 W75 1996Location: Reference Collection Dictionary of multicultural education Call Number: LC1099 .D53 1997Location: Reference Collection Guide to multicultural resources.Call Number: E 184 A1G95Location: Reference Collection Traditional festivals: a multicultural encyclopedia /Call Number: GT3925 .R69 2005Location: Reference Collection
Browsing the Main Collection
If you would like to browse our collection, visit
the following locations in the main collection:
GN
Anthropology
GR
Folklore
HF
Commerce
HM
Sociology
HV
Social Pathology
LC
Special Aspects of Education
Subject Headings
You can also find books using the online catalog. The following subject headings are recommended:
Multiculturalism
Multiculturalism in Art
Multiculturalism in Literature
Multiculturalism in United States
Multiculturalism Juvenile Literature
Multiculturalism Psychological Aspects
Multiculturalism Study and Teaching
General Databases
The following is list of databases related to Multicultural
Research. These databases can be located
on the Alphabetical List link of this webpage:
Subject Specific Databases
Immigration
and Multiculturalism: Essential Primary Sources
Ebook version of Immigration and
Multiculturalism: Essential Primary Sources. K. Lerner, Brenda Lerner, and
Adrienne Lerner, Eds. Detroit: Gale, 2006. 483 pp. This volume of primary
source documents focuses on some of the leading social issues of the 19th,
20th, and 21st centuries: immigration and multiculturalism. It contains
approximately 175 full and excerpted documents---speeches, legislation,
magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels,
songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each
document in context. Entries are organized into chapters that feature a general
overview of the chapter's subtopic. Also included is an introduction to the
topic, a chronology of major events associated with the topic, and a general
index.
SocINDEX
with Full Text
The world's most comprehensive and highest quality
sociology research database. The index features more than 1,300,000 records
with subject headings from a 15,000 term sociology-specific thesaurus designed
by expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 235
.core. coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 .priority. coverage
journals. This database also includes full text for 545 books and monographs,
and full text for 6,601 conference papers.
HRAF
The eHRAF Collection of Archaeology is a
cross-cultural database containing descriptive information on archaeological
traditions of the world and is modeled after the eHRAF Collection of
Ethnography. eHRAF is unique because each archaeological tradition contains a
variety of source documents (books, articles, and dissertations) that have been
indexed and organized according to HRAF's comprehensive tradition and subject
classification systems: the Outline of Archaeological Traditions (OAT), and the
Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM). The most important aspect of the eHRAF
database is its OCM index and search system. Each and every paragraph in eHRAF
is indexed with 3- and 4- digit OCM subject codes that identify the content of
a paragraph. Therefore, using an OCM, rather than a keyword, in a search
enables the user to search eHRAF more effectively and retrieve more valuable
ethnographic information. These retrieval systems extend search capability well
beyond keyword searching thus allowing for precise tradition and subject
retrieval, even in a foreign language.
ERIC
Educational Resource Information Center. The ERIC
Index is a major resource for research in all areas of education. ERIC contains
approximately 1,000,000 references and abstracts, it annually indexes articles
from over 800 journals as well as 13,000 documents (conference papers, research
reports, state, federal, and local education documents, selected books, etc.)
Produced by the US Department of Education. Of the approximately 500,000 ERIC
documents (ED) available about 100,000 are available online from ERIC.
Web Resources
The reference librarians at Kutztown University have evaluated and recommend the following websites:
National Mutlicultural
Institute
National
Association for Education Association
Children
L.E.A.D. (Learning Early To Appreciate Diversity)
Media
The following is a list of audiovisual resources
that may be of interest to you. Visit the AV Department on the ground
floor of the library for more information.
Administrative involvement in the development of a
diversity initiative: taking the institution to the next level
Physical Description: VideorecordingCall Number: 3267Location: AV Center - Videotape (Ground Floor) Building multicultural bridges on college campuses for faculty, students, and staff. Physical Description: VideorecordingCall Number: 3265Location: AV Center - Videotape (Ground Floor) Diversity in the elementary classroom: implications for teaching.Physical Description: VideorecordingCall Number: 5002Location: AV Center - Videotape (Ground Floor) Turning Tides, prevailing currents, and the mainstream.Physical Description: VideorecordingCall Number: 3963Location: AV Center - Videotape (Ground Floor) Multicultural teaching and learning: strategies for change in higher education.Physical Description: Videorecording Call Number: 5502Location: AV Center - Videotape (Ground Floor) Classroom climate workshops on cultural awareness Physical Description: Videorecording Call Number: 7569Location: AV Center - Videotape (Ground Floor) Learn from the past, plan for the future multi-cultural value preferences vs. dominant US culture.Physical Description: VideorecordingCall Number: 7852Location: AV Center - Videotape (Ground Floor) Cultural topics for discussionPhysical Description: VideorecordingCall Number: 7850Location: AV Center - Videotape (Ground Floor)