LIAS Library Information Access System
http://www.lias.psu.edu
LIAS is the primary source for accessing the collections of the Penn State Libraries system and other participating libraries. The Library Information Access System contains electronic records for books, periodicals, and government documents as well as a variety of other materials. Materials not owned at the Fayette library can be ordered from another PSU Library by accessing the "I Want It" button.

• Searching Tips
  (To use when searching the CAT)
  
  Some selected (not comprehensive) subject headings to use in your searching include:
  
  • Acculturation United States
    
  • Affirmative Action Programs
    
  • Afro-Americans Race Identity
    
  • Afro-Americans Race Relations
    
  • Assimilation (Sociology)
    
  • Cultural Assimilation
    
  • Discrimination in Employment
    
  • Diversity in the Workplace
    
  • Emigration and Immigration
    
  • Ethnicity United States
    
  • Immigrants
    
  • Gay Rights
    
  • Gays Attitudes
    
  • Gays Identity
    
  • Lesbians - Identity
    
  • Minority Women
    
  • Multiculturalism
    
  • Pluralism
    
  • Race Awareness
    
  • United States Ethnic Relations
    
  • United States Race Relations
  
  
  If you want to search for specific ethnic or racial groups, the subjects are subdivided usually with "Race Identity" or "Ethnic Identity" in combination with the specific ethnic or racial group. Some examples include:
  
  • Blacks Race Identity
    
  • German Americans Ethnic Identity
    
  • Hispanic Americans Ethnic Identity
    
  • Indians of North America Ethnic Identity
    
  • Italians United States Ethnic Identity
    
  • Jews United States Identity
  
  
• Reference Sources
  

  Affirmative Action: A Reference Handbook	Ref. HF5549.5.A34E39	1999
  African American Encyclopedia (10 vols.)	Ref. E185.A253	2001
  African American Frontiers: Slave Narratives & Oral Histories	Ref. E444.G68	2000
  Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African & African American Experience	Ref. DT14.A37435	1999
  Aggression and Conflict: A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia	Ref. HM136.L46	1994
  American Ethnic Groups: A Sourcebook	Ref. Z7164.R12K56	1973
  American Immigrant Cultures: Builders of a Nation (2 vols.)	Ref. E184.A1A63448	1997
  American Immigration (10 vols.)	Ref. JV6450.A59	1999
  Annotated Bibliography of Multicultural Literature	Ref. E184.A1K65	1993
  Cassell?s Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Love	Ref. HQ76.25.C665	1997
  Civil Rights in the United States (2 vols.)	Ref. E184.A1C47	2000
  Encyclopedia of the Peoples of the World	Ref. GN495.4.E53	1993
  Encyclopedia of American Social History (3 vols.)	Ref. HN57.E58	1993
  Ethnic Almanac	Ref. E184.A1B426	1981
  Ethnic Groups Worldwide: A Ready Reference Handbook	Ref. GN325.L46	1998
  Ethnic History In Pennsylvania: A Selected Bibliography	Ref. Z1329.B65	1974
  Handbook of Gender, Culture, and Health	Ref. RA418.H27	1999
  Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups	Ref. E184.A1H35	1980
  Historical Dictionary of the Gay Liberation Movement: Gay Men and the Quest for Social Justice	Ref. HQ76.5.H86	1999
  Nation of Peoples: A Sourcebook on America's Multicultural Heritage	Ref. E184.A1N2866	1999
  Racial & Ethnic Diversity: Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Whites	Ref.E184.A1R78	2000
  Reference Library of Black America (5 vols.)	Ref. E185.P56	1990
  We the People: An Atlas of America's Ethnic Diversity	Ref. E184.A1A479	1988

  
  
• Online sources Primary LIAS databases for Diversity, Multicultural, & Affirmative Action information
  (Check the E-Resource List (A-Z) under "Articles and More" in LIAS for additional databases that might be useful.)
  
  1. African-American Biographical Database
     Database is comprised of the 290+ sources that make up the Series: Black Biographical Dictionaries, 1790-1950, and substitutes electronically for their index: Black Biography, 1790-1950, A Cumulative Index. As such, the AABD is an historical database, covering narratives on leading African-Americans who lived and worked prior to 1950.
     
  2. African-American Poetry, 1760 - 1900
     Covers the works of 54 African-American poets writing in the 18th and 19th centuries. Searchable collection of poems and individual volumes from all of the major movements and schools of Twentieth Century African American poetry from 1902 to the present day.
     
  3. Brown University Women Writers Project
     A long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding. Our goal is to bring texts by pre-Victorian women writers (pre 1830 in England) out of the archive and make them accessible to a wide audience of teachers, students, scholars, and the general reader. We support research on women's writing, text encoding, and the role of electronic texts in teaching and scholarship.
     
  4. Contemporary Women's Issues
     Provides access to full text sources covering global information on women. The sources include periodicals, newsletters, reports, fact sheets, and pamphlets. Topics covered range from human rights to health and reproductive issues to legal information. Coverage: 1992 to date. Includes nearly 1500 titles. Updates: Weekly.
     
  5. Ethnic NewsWatch
     A comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic,
     minority and native press. Continuously growing since 1991, with archival material back to 1985, this database is now a collection of more than 470,000 full-text articles from over 200 publications. Searchable in both English and Spanish, with titles in both languages and more than 100,000 articles in Spanish, ENW offers in-depth coverage of a wide range of current and retrospective topics easily accessed using free text and fielded searching. An average of 7,500 new articles is added each month.
     
  6. GenderWatch
     A full text database comprised of periodicals and other publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas. It supports programs in gender and women's studies, public policy, political science, sociology and contemporary culture, education, literature and the arts, health sciences, history, business, and more. Publications include academic and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, government publications, and NGO and special reports.
     Also, contains archival material, in some cases as far back as the 1970s with additional archival material continually added.
     
  7. North American Women's Letters and Diaries
     Includes approximately 100,000 pages of published letters and diaries from individuals writing from Colonial times to 1950 plus 4,000 pages of previously unpublished materials. Drawn from more than 1,000 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings, much of the material is in copyright. Represented are all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous and the not so famous. More than 1,500 biographies will enhance the use of the database. The collection includes one of the most comprehensive bibliographies of women's diaries and letters yet published. It lists over 2,000 published and unpublished items from a variety of sources, including online resources and microform.
     
  8. Women's Resources International
     Provides access to over 232,000 records drawn from ten important Women's Studies databases. Among the databases included in Women's Resources International are Women's Studies Abstracts, one of the premiere Women's Studies indexes; four files from Women Studies Librarian at the University of Wisconsin; Popline Subset on Women; and Women's Health and Development: An Annotated Bibliography of Mostly English Language Journal Articles from the World Health Organization. Coverage: 1972 to date; citations and abstracts only. Updated semiannually.
  
  
• Selected Internet Sites
  
  • Association of MultiEthnic Americans -- http://www.ameasite.org/
    AMEA's primary goal is to promote a positive awareness of interracial and multiethnic identify, for ourselves and for society as a whole.
    
  • CLNet Diversity Page -- http://latino.sscnet.ucla.edu/diversity1.html
    Provides links to diversity sites. Topic examples include: African-American, Gay & Lesbian Studies, Latinos, Native Americans, and Women.
    
  • Diversity in the Workplace WWW Resources -- http://www.diversitysearch.com/dr.html
    Includes several links to general diversity sites, organization links, multicultural organizations, minority career resources, government sites, and to minority career resources.
    
  • Diversity Links -- http://www.wesleyan.edu/psyc/diversitylinks.htm
    An annotated directory of 750+ websites featuring educational, business, and governmental efforts to foster diversity and intercultural communication.
    
  • Equity and Cultural Diversity -- http://eric-web.tc.columbia.edu/equity/
    Excellent source for directories of services and resources related to equity and cultural diversity issues. Includes essays, annotated bibliographies, ERIC digests, and additional Internet sites.
    
  • Virtual Library -- http://vlib.org/Home.html
    This site is a collection of subject related Websites maintained by institutions throughout the world, each administering a different subject. For more information, go to http://www.vlib.org/AboutVL.html Selected
    Individual subjects include:
    
    • Men's Issues -- http://www.vix.com/men/
      
    • Migration & Ethnic Relations -- http://www.ercomer.org/wwwvl/
      
    • Women's Studies -- http://libraries.mit.edu/humanities/WomensStudies/wscd.html

Gerry Dorobish
8/10/2001
Update: 9/25/2002+

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