UMASS BOSTON
HEALEY LIBRARY
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Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature (Ref AI 3 R48)
1) During the 1940’s Reader’s Guide provided subject indexing to more than 100 popular,
mostly-American magazines.
2) Try these subject headings:
▪ Hawaiian Islands – Japanese raids
▪ Internment camps – United States
▪ Japanese in the Hawaiian Islands
▪ Japanese in the United States
▪ World war 1939▪▪ Subheadings: cartoons, food questions, labor and the war, personal
narratives, United States, etc.
3) Interpreting Reader’s Guide:
volume page date
Evacuating American citizens. F.B. Duveneck. Nation 154:556 My 9 ‘42
title of article
author
title of magazine
4) After finding references (aka: citations) to articles,
▪ Check the Healey Library catalog - www.lib.umb.edu
▪ Select Basic Search
▪ Select Search by Journal Title
▪ Type magazine title (e.g.) Nation…
…to see if the library subscribes to the magazine you need, also making sure it has
the date you need (e.g.) May 9, 1942.
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CURRENTLY AT 4TH FLOOR REFERENCE DESK
1) Microfilm
○ The Boston Globe: December 1941 through February 1942; May 1-15, 1942
○ The Boston Herald: December 1941 through January 1942
○ Fortune Magazine: July 1943 through June 1944
○ Nation: January through December, 1941 and 1942
○ New Republic: January through December, 1941; January through December, 1942
○ Newsweek: July through December 1941; January through June 1942
○ Time: July through December 1941; January through December 1942
○ U.S. News & World Report: July through December 1941; January through June 1942
○ Vital Speeches of the Day: January through December 1941; January through December
1942
2) Bound Periodicals
○ Current History: September through August 1941-1942; October through March 19421943
○ Life Magazine: September through December 1941; January through June 1942
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Web Resources
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www.npr.org
Try other keywords (e.g.) “Japanese Americans”, “Pearl Harbor”, WWII internment, etc.
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www.loc.gov
Click then select “War, Military”; scan the list for any
relevant items. Next try typing some keywords (e.g.)
“Pearl Harbor”, etc
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www.museum.tv
At bottom of homepage, select [search]. Try typing keywords (e.g.) “Pearl Harbor”, etc
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http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/index.html
Scroll to,
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http://www.umkc.edu/lib/spec-col/ww2/PearlHarbor/radio.htm
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http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/wracamps/
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http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/anseladams/
Prepared for E. Schaefer – Soc G211
Janet DiPaolo-Reference-Instruction Librarian
janet.dipaolo@umb.edu
2.8.07
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