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The General Collections

INTRODUCTION

USING THE GENERAL COLLECTIONS

SELECTED HOLDINGS
Starting Places
Bibliographies
Secondary Sources
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Microform Materials
Doctoral Dissertations
Congressional Documents
Indexes to Anthologies
Periodicals
Biographical Sources
Women's Writings
Other Sources

CONCLUSION

GENERAL COLLECTIONS EXTERNAL SITES

VISIT/CONTACT

Series
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bibliographic record

Many publishers group new works under a series title, and therefore identifying a useful series may lead to other volumes on related topics. The subject index in Books in Series (see below) directs researchers both to recent scholarly monographs on women and to published primary sources. Examples of series include

  • Women & Children First, which has thirty-seven titles, mostly reprints of association and government reports and statistics
  • Women in America: From Colonial Times to the 20th Century, with more than fifty reprinted titles, often pamphlets
  • Women in American History, thirty-four monographs and growing, with biographies and works on social and labor movements
Relevant series that do not specifically focus on women include the Black Heritage Library Collection (more than four hundred reprints, many literary) and American Trails (two series with accounts of overland journeys).


BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Books in Series. New York: R.R. Bowker, 1977-89 [catalog record]. MRR Alc volumes shelved in Z1033.S5 B66 1982 and .B67.

Also, look for a “series” name when examining the full record of a book on your topic. The Library's online catalog can be searched easily by series title in the “Guided Keyword” search method.

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