ADDITIONAL LIBRARY SERVICES INFORMATION

When you click the DATABASE link, you go to a screen with two choices: California Child Welfare Resource Library Holdings or CSULB MSW Theses. Make a selection.

If you select: CALIFORNIA CHILD WELFARE RESOURCE LIBRARY

you will see a new screen with five boxes. Fill in at least one box to locate the reference materials you need. Select Any Word to locate references with that word or phrase in the title or abstract. Select Title and/or Author if you have that information. Select Keyword to search by subject. To use this search, you must use a keyword from the Library's list. Select Record Type if you know what type of resource you want (e.g., videotape, book). You may find the browse buttons with drop-down menus to be helpful, particularly if you aren't sure of the correct spelling of an author's name.

On the left of these boxes are small boxes with drop-down menus that say And, Or, Not. Use these boxes to make connections between two or more search fields. For example,

• For results that include all the fields you filled in (e.g., Subject = Adoption, and Record Type = Book) keep And in the boxes. Every record that is about adoption and is a book will appear in your results list.
• For results that give you one or the other field, use Or in one of the boxes next to a filled in field (e.g., Subject = Adoption or Record Type = Videotape). The results list will include all items on adoption and all videotapes.
• Use Not to narrow down a search (e.g., Subject = Adoption not Author = Child Welfare League of America) will give you a list of all items on adoption except those by the Child Welfare League of America.

When you find something you'd like to borrow, click the link to put it into your cart. When you are ready to place your order, you can cut and paste your cart into an email to the Library. Your order will be filled and sent to your liaison who will alert you when it arrives.

If you select CSULB MSW THESES

you get a slightly different screen; there is no Record Type option as all the items are theses.

Now that you're ready, to reach the searchable database of over 3,400 child welfare resource materials and over 1,000 CSULB MSW theses, click on DATABASE

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Last modified: 11 January 2008