This
page is meant to give you basic places to begin your research.
For more
complex searches, ask a reference librarian.
I. Books
To find books and media on your
topic:
EZRA: the Wittenberg University library catalog.
Start with a keyword search:
e.g. springfield and history
Some Important Titles on Springfield, Clark County, and Witteberg University:
Springfield and Clark County, Ohio -
Ref. F499.S7 F4 1941
Who's Who in Ohio. Ref. F490.W6
1930
Springfield,
Ohio : In the Heart of the Mad River Valley -
Thomas Rare Oversize F499.S7 S7 1936
One
Hundred Seventy-Five Years of Struggle: History of Black people in Springfield,
Ohio -
Reference F499.S7 W5 1976
Springfield, Ohio City Directory - Ref. AY272.S7 W7
Note: Issues
before 2000 are shelved in Ref. Storage.
Fourteenth census of population, 1920. Ohio. Clark Co. [microform]
Microforms HA 201 1920 .A15 no.1353 -1354
Springfield Ohio: A Progressive, Accessible, Industrial City. (1929)
In the OhioLINK catalog.
Springfield
& Clark County : An Illustrated History - Thomas Rare F499.S7 K56 1985
Heartland: An Exhibition from the
Collection of the Heritage Center of Clark County -
Main Oversize F499.S7 K96 2001
Wittenberg: A Concise History - Ref.
Desk LD6183.K45 1976
Wittenberg in Clark County 1845-1970 - Ref. Desk
LD6183.K55 1970
For General Background on Society and Culture:
OhioLINK: merged catalogs of more than 80 Ohio academic libraries
II. Internet Resources
| Clark County Historical Society |
Clark County Public
Library |
| Text of the 1881 History of
Springfield |
III. Finding Journal Articles
Guidelines on
how to distinguish scholarly from popular articles
To find articles:
America: History and Life
- "U.S. and Canadian history,
prehistory to present".
No full
text is provided, but article summaries are .
New York Times - Historical - Full text of the New York Times
from its
inception in 1851 through 2004.
Readers' Guide Retrospective
- Provides references to articles in popular American
magazines, 1890-1982.
No full text, but we have many of the magazines
downstairs.
For other
ideas, see the full
List of Indexes and Databases, with nearly 200
database options.
To locate journals:
At Wittenberg:
Search Journals
the Library Has, for
a list of
magazines
and journals that
Wittenberg owns, both online and in hard copy.
At other academic libraries: Use Interlibrary Loan.Locating journals can be tricky, difficult, and generally exasperating.
IV. People Help
Wittenberg librarians welcome
your questions.
If you have any questions at all about your research--how to get started
or how to proceed--contact us. We will respond promptly.
Reference Desk - refdesk@wittenberg.edu
- (Whoever sees it first will reply.)
Suzanne Smailes - ssmailes@wittenberg.edu - for
Archives questions
Kristen Gibson - rentorf@wittenberg.edu
Ken Irwin - kirwin@wittenberg.edu
Alisa Mizikar - amizikar@wittenberg.edu
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