Psych, Soc, Ling & Af Am @ the Library

Great news! Gerald Langford, one of our catalogers, has downloaded all of the PsycBooks records into our catalog. So now while you’re searching for print books in our library, you can find over 1,600 electronic book available to you, whereever you are, anywhere in the world.

We continually receive new books, so keep checking back to see what we have. And you can read whole chapters at once, download the entire chapter, and enjoy reading in the comfort of your bed (if you tend to leave your laptop in your living room

Gerald suggests you browse the books this way:

There are 1682 records. If you do a keyword “Anywhere” search for “American Psychological Association,” then choose the 1800 available “online,” then limit by “New Titles,” you get a result of 1684 records. Hopefully all but 2 of those are the PsycBooks record.

Here is a link to the books as an RSS feed.

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My mother once told me she didn’t enjoy history in school, because she could never find herself in her history books. We’re Eastern European Jews and back when my mom was a kid, you couldn’t find us anywhere.

Then came John Hope Franklin, whose great scholarship made history inclusive. After a long struggle, folks recognized that American history is fragmentary if limited only to white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant men. Even though Prof. Franklin lived to the old age of 94, he still died too young. But he made the world a much better place for the rest of us.

His obituary from the Washington Post.

A list of some of his books that we have in the library or are available through the library online:

In search of the promised land : a slave family in the Old South
John Hope Franklin, Loren Schweninger.
Author: Franklin, John Hope 1915-
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
LIBRARY WEST General Collection E444 .F825 2006    

Mirror to America : the autobiography of John Hope Franklin
John Hope Franklin.
Author: Franklin, John Hope 1915-
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. 
  LIBRARY WEST General Collection E175.5.F73 A3 2005    

Tributes to John Hope Franklin : scholar, mentor, father, friend
edited by Beverly Jarrett.
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2003. 
 LIBRARY WEST General Collection E175.5.F73 T75 2003    

From slavery to freedom : a history of African Americans
John Hope Franklin, Alfred A. Moss, Jr.
Author: Franklin, John Hope 1915-
Published: New York : A.A Knopf, 2000.
LIBRARY WEST General Collection E185 .F825 2000    

Runaway slaves : rebels on the plantation
John Hope Franklin, Loren Schweninger.
Author: Franklin, John Hope 1915-
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
LIBRARY WEST General Collection E447 .F7 1999    

The diary of James T. Ayers, Civil War recruiter
edited, with a new preface, by John Hope Franklin ; with a new introduction by John David Smith.
Author: Ayers, James T. 1805-1865
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1999. 
  LIBRARY WEST General Collection E540.N3 A96 1999    

My life and an era : the autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin
edited by John Hope Franklin and John Whittington Franklin.
Author: Franklin, Buck Colbert 1879-1960
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1997. 
  LEGAL INFORMATION CENTER General Collection KF373.F745 A3 1997    

The color line legacy for the twenty-first century
John Hope Franklin.
Author: Franklin, John Hope 1915-
Published: Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c1993.
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Race and history selected essays, 1938-1988
John Hope Franklin.
Author: Franklin, John Hope 1915-
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1989.
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Visions of a better way : a Black appraisal of public schooling
preface by John Hope Franklin.
Author: Joint Center for Political Studies (U.S.) Committee on Policy for Racial Justice
Published: Washington, D.C. : Joint Center for Political Studies Press ; Lanham, MD : Distributed by University Press of America, 1989.
  EDUCATION LIBRARY General Collection LC2771 .J65 1989    

A southern odyssey : travelers in the antebellum North
John Hope Franklin.
Author: Franklin, John Hope 1915-
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1976.
 LIBRARY WEST General CollectionF213 .F76    

The historian and public policy.
Author: Franklin, John Hope 1915-
Published: [Chicago] University of Chicago, Center for Policy Study [1974]
LIBRARY WEST General Collection E169.1 .F826    

The free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860
John Hope Franklin ; with a new foreword and bibliographic afterword by the author.
Author: Franklin, John Hope 1915-
Published: Chapel Hill, NC : The University of North Carolina Press, c1995.
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Runaway slaves rebels on the plantation
John Hope Franklin, Loren Schweninger.
Author: Franklin, John Hope 1915-
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
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Racial equality in America
John Hope Franklin.
Author: Franklin, John Hope 1915-
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 1993.
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The militant South, 1800-1861
John Hope Franklin.
Author: Franklin, John Hope 1915-
Published: Cambridge : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1970.
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PsycBOOKS contains books published by APA Books and others. There are more that 1,300 titles covered in PsycBOOKS. More than 600 are designated to be Classic Books, landmark books that are generally out of print.

PsycInfo heavily indexes each chapter and book of PsycBooks, links to it, and allows you to download whole chpaters. So in other words, you can search for chapters in books just like you would for articles in journals and then read them on your computer or print them out.

The books are both classic, landmark books that are out of print and recently-published, within the past year.

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One of the big projects this year for our library has been to look at our “brittle books” and decide what to do with them. Do we have lots of copies, so we can sell the books that are falling apart? Should we buy new copies? Do hundreds of libraries own the book, so if folks need it, they can borrow it? (Especially if no one has checked the book out in 30 years!) Should we digitize it? Or has someone already digitized it?

Well, yesterday I was looking through the brittle books in my areas. Here was a Working Paper by Peter Ladefoged from 1967 from UCLA. (For those of you who aren’t linguists, Ladefoged is probably the most famous phonetician ever. He wrote the book that most students have used to learn about phonetics for the last 45-50 years. And he’s been tirelessly working to protect and study endangered languages. He just died in 2006.)

Anyway, this was an old paper. Not held by many libraries, but variations on it are held by hundreds. I would have liked to digitize it, but UCLA has a large number of Ladefoged’s works online. (And a wonderful memoriom to him as well.) So I checked UCLA’s site and look what I found: an archive of UCLA’s Papers in Linguistics! Just wonderful.

Not only does it include Working Papers, but also Dissertations and Master’s Theses (Master’s Theses are usually not available through ProQuest Dissertations, by the way).

Of course, the greatest site to list the grey material in linguistics, generally digitized and often free, is

http://www.lingref.com/lwpd/index.html

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New Handbooks in Methodology from Sage Publications

As I’ve mentioned before, the library is trying to develop a strong methodology collection and get it used! Peter Malanchuk, our Librarian for Political Science, and Colleen Seale and Michael Dietz, both from the Reference Department, are collaborating with me to determine what reference materials and circulating books would enlighten students and faculty most during those dark moments of HUH?? or just the grayish ones.

Sage Publications has a well-earned reputation for producing some of the very best methodology handbooks. They are where I turn when I want to develop our collection. We also chose these texts because the articles include case studies from all over the social sciences: from political science to communication, psychology to television. Check out the Table of Contents. Pretty impressive.

Recently, Peter and I requested feedback on sets that reprinted “benchmark” articles about issues on particular methodologies. We already have a few of the sets:

Ethnography / edited by Alan Bryman. Table of Contents
The American tradition in qualitative research / edited by Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln. Table of Contents
Conversation analysis / edited by Paul Drew & John Heritage. Table of Contents

They are all going into reference, so you’ll be able to get at them when you need them. Faculty members can assign readings from them. They have wonderful reference lists after each article which should lead you to other readings.

From consulting the suggestions from faculty and the requests we get from students, we’ve decided to buy the following sets:

Measurement / edited by David Bartholomew Table of Contents
Research Design / edited by David de Vaus Table of Contents
Evaluation Research Methods / edited by Elliot Stern Table of Contents

Several faculty members asked for the Measurement texts and students are often confused about how and why they should use certain tests and inventories. Research Design was also requested and is broad, addressing very general issues confronted by most researchers.

Thank you for you assistance and let me know what other books we can gather together for you!

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