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FYS -The Eyewitness in History - G. Shaya (2016): Finding Books

CONSORT

Search the CONSORT CATALOG for items held by CONSORT Libraries. Consort is a shared catalog for the following schools: The College of Wooster, Denison University, Kenyon College, and Ohio Wesleyan University. You can request books held in other CONSORT libraries directly through the CONSORT system. These items take an average or 2-4 working days to be delivered to our library. You will receive a message on your @wooster.edu account to let you know when items have arrived. They will be placed on hold for you at the Gault Reserves Desk.

OhioLINK

Search the OhioLINK CATALOG for items held by OhioLINK Libraries. You can request books held in other OhioLINK libraries directly through the OhioLINK system. These items take an average or 2-4 working days to be delivered to our library. You will receive a message on your @wooster.edu account to let you know when items have arrived. They will be placed on hold for you at the Gault Reserves Desk.

EXAMPLE--PRINT BOOK RESOURCE

There are many print resources available in WOO MAIN that will be useful for researching topics in this course.  One title that you may want to look at is In the Country of Men.  If WOO's copy is checked out, you can check out a copy from OHIOLINK.

You can go to the shelf to find the book under the CALL NUMBER WOO MAIN PR 6113.A87 I515 2008 and other books on the same topic will be shelved in the same area.  

There are many print resources available in CONSORT OR OHIOLINK that will be useful for researching topics in this course.  One title that you may want to look at is Shake Hands With the Devil.  If CONSORT'S copy is checked out, you can check out a copy from OHIOLINK.

Also, whenever you find a book on your topic, you may want to look at assigned subject headings.  You may want to click on the subject heading RWANDA--HISTORY--CIVIL WAR, 1994-  --ATROCITIES or GENOCIDE--RWANDA to see what books are available in Wooster or other CONSORT libraries.  Remember, you can move your search to OHIOLINK to view titles available for request from schools outside of CONSORT libraries.

 

 

Keywords

Some keywords to consider for this course:

•ethnic cleansing

•eyewitness accounts and genocide

•eyewitness accounts and violence

•genocide

•Holocaust

•media and war

•9/11

•oral history and genocide

•oral history and war

•Rwanda and personal narratives

•September 11 and terror*

•Vietnam and personal narratives

•war and atrocities

•[names of individual journalists, authors, artists]

LC Subject Headings

Books in the CONSORT and OhioLINK catalogs are assigned Library of Congress (LC)

Subject Headings. Here are some subject headings to consider for this course:

•GENOCIDE

•HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945)

•KOSOVO WAR, 1998-1999--ATTROCITIES

•RWANDA--HISTORY--CIVIL WAR, 1994--ATROCITIES

•SEPTEMBER 11 TERRORIST ATTACKS, 2001

•VIETNAM WAR (1961-1975)--ATROCITIES

•VIETNAM WAR (1961-1975)--PERSONAL NARRATIVES

•VIETNAM WAR CRIMES

•WORLD WAR (1939-1945)--PERSONAL NARRATIVES

•YUGOSLAV WAR, 1991-1995--ATROCITIES

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