Find Primary Sources on
Japanese Internment Camps
Dr. Jun Wang
Professor of Library & Information Studies
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Coordinator of Bibliographic Instruction and Information Literacy
Library
Student
Student Learning Outcome
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Be able to get on Delta College Library’s website and log on
to the subscription online Databases on and off the campus
Identify available research tools from Delta College Library
as well as reputable Websites from which you can find
primary sources on Japanese Internment Camps
Be able to locate primary sources, such as interviews with
Japanese Americans interned, diaries, historical
photographs/movies/artifacts, and memoirs from the
interned
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Click here to conduct a database search to find peer-reviewed research articles.
Library’s Home Page:
http://library.deltacollege.edu
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Japanese American Internment
Topic Overview
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Japanese American Internment Camps
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To be tweaked as the following with the MLA Citation Guide
Works Cited
Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki. “Education in a Japanese American Internment
Camp.” American Decades Primary Sources. Ed. Cynthia Rose. Vol.5:
1940-1949. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Gale U.S. History in Context. Web.
14 Oct. 2011.
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Films on Demand Database
Japanese Internment Camps
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Japanese Internment Camps
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How to Cite a Film from Films on Demand
To be tweaked as the following with the MLA Citation Guide
Works Cited
From a Different Shore: The Japanese-American Experience. Films Media Group,
1994. Films on Demand. Web. 14 Oct. 2011.
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Web Films & Animations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqmx2XhHxeY
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Historical Images from the Web
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Reputable Web Sources
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How to Cite Web Sources in MLA Style
• MLA Citation Guide
http://www.deltacollege.edu/dept/library/IC/mla.html
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Library
Student
Gauging Your Learning Outcome
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How to log on to the library’s subscription online
Databases on and off the campus?
Name three research tools from Delta College Library as
well as reputable Websites from which you can find
primary sources on Japanese Internment Camps
Find four primary sources on Japanese Internment
Camps and e-mail them or the websites to yourselves
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