Reference Department News

New Reference Materials 2/24/2009

The encyclopedia of psychological trauma/ edited by Gilbert Reyes, Jon D. Elhai, Julian D. Ford/
MAIN Reference L616.8521 E56

The dictionary of homophobia : a global history of gay & lesbian experience/ edited by Louis-Georges Tin ; translated by Marek Redburn, with Alice Michaud and Kyle Mathers
MAIN Reference 306.76603 D554x

The Oxford companion to the American musical: theatre, film, and television/ Thomas Hischak
MAIN Reference 782.14097 H673o

Encyclopedia of Asian-American literature/ Seiwoong Oh
MAIN Reference 810.80895 O36e

Party affiliations in the state legislatures: a year by year summary, 1796-2006/ Michael J. Dubin
MAIN Reference 328.73076 D814p

Children and television: fifty years of research/ edited by Norma Pecora, John P. Murray, Ellen Ann Wartella
MAIN Reference 016.30223 C536

The American Indian ghost dance, 1870 and 1890: an annotated bibliography/ compiled by Shelley Anne Osterreich
MAIN Reference 016.978 O85a

Radio speakers : narrators, news junkies, sports jockeys, tattletales, tipsters, toastmasters and coffee klatch couples who verbalized the jargon of the aural ether from the 1920s to the 1980s : a biographical dictionary/ Jim Cox
MAIN Reference 791.44028 C877r

Bibliotheca lexicorum : kommentiertes Verzeichnis der Sammlung Otmar Seemann : eine Bibliographie der enzyklopädischen Literatur von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der im deutschen Sprachraum ab dem Jahr 1500 gedruckten Werke / bearbeitet von Martin Peche ; nach einem von Otmar Seemann erstellten Gesamtverzeichnis und mit einer mehr als 3000 Titel umfassenden Bibliographie zur Geschichte der Lexikonistik herausgegeben von Hugo Wetscherek
MAIN Reference 016.0331 P365b

Bibliographie zur Geschichte Oberammergaus und der Passionsspiele/ Ludwig Utschneider
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The Columbia guide to online style/ Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor
MAIN Reference (Desk) 808.027 W181c 2006

New Resource: Book Review Index Online

Book Review Index Online is a comprehensive source for book reviews that electronically indexes reviews from 1965 to the present.

To locate this index and other electronic resources available at Northwestern University Library. go to the Electronic Resources page

Upcoming Reference Workshops

Introduction to Policy Sources
Wednesday February 18, 3:00 pm-4:00 pm

EndNote for Science and Engineering
Thursday February 19 2:00 pm-3:30 pm

Primary Sources in the NU Archives
Thursday February 19 3:30 pm-4:30 pm

GIS Workshop (Social Sciences)
Friday February 20, 9:00 am-4:00 pm
Saturday Febrary 21, 9:00 am-4:00 pm

See the Workshop schedule for the whole workshop schedule.
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/reference/workshops/

New Reference Materials 2/9/2009

Islamic philosophy A-Z / Peter S. Groff with Oliver Leaman
MAIN Reference 181.0703 G874i

Diccionario de estudios de género y feminismos / Susana Beatriz Gamba ; con la colaboración de Tania Diz ... [et al.]
MAIN Reference 305.42036 D545

A midsummer night’s dream: an annotated bibliography / D. Allen Carroll, Gary Jay Williams/ MAIN Reference 822.3 Sm4dZc

Historical dictionary of the Salvation Army / edited by John G. Merritt/ MAIN Reference 287.9603 H673

Productores en el cine español: estado, dependencias y mercado / Esteve Riambau, Casimiro Torreiro
MAIN Reference 791.43094 R481p

Early childhood education: an international encyclopedia / edited by Rebecca S. New and Moncrieff Cochran
MAIN Reference 372.2103 E12

Women & gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia : a comprehensive bibliography / edited by Mary Zirin ... [et al.] ; for the Association for Women in Slavic Studies
MAIN Reference 016.30542 W87172

Jews and American popular culture / edited by Paul Buhle
MAIN Reference 305.8924 J589998

Brill’s encyclopedia of China / edited by Daniel Leese
MAIN Reference L951.003 B857

The Underground Railroad: an encyclopedia of people, places, and operations / Mary Ellen Snodgrass
MAIN Reference 973.7115 S673u

Reference Room Exhibit: The Green Cup

In support of the Green Cup the current Reference Room exhibit features a display of print sources from the Reference collection related to the environment, environmental studies, energy, ecology, and going green. Click here to see a bibliography of the resources featured in the exhibit, other resources in the Reference collection, as well as related online databases.

See a list of previous Reference Room exhibits.

Upcoming Reference Workshops

EndNote Basics (Hands On)
Wednesday February 11, 3:00pm-4:00pm

Introduction to Policy Sources
Wednesday February 18 3:00 pm-4:00 pm

See the Workshop schedule for the whole workshop schedule.
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/reference/workshops/

New Reference Materials 2/3/2009

Diccionario Crítico de la Literatura Mexicana(1955-2005)/ Christopher Domínguez Michael/ MAIN Reference 868.708 D671d

The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa/ David Hudon, Marvin Bergman, & Loren Horton
MAIN Reference 977.7033 B615

Historical Dictionary of Native American Movements/ Todd Leahy & Raymond Wilson
MAIN Reference 323.1197 L434h

Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the Other Italic Languages/ Michiel de Vaan
MAIN Reference 470.03 V111e

Concise Encyclopedia of Real Estate Business Terms/ Bill Roark and Ryan Roark
MAIN Reference 333.3303 R628c

Deutsches Fremdwörterbuch / von Hans Schulz
MAIN Reference L 433 S38

Duden: Zitate und Aussprüche / herausgegeben von der Dudenredaktion
MAIN Reference 083.1 D845