Agricultural and Applied Economics / Agronomy / CALS Interdisciplinary / Nutritional Sciences 350

Help for Finding Case Study Books: Your assignment is to read two book-length case studies about families or individuals dealing with poverty and hunger. One must be in the US and one in a developing country.

Madcat is the source for finding books. Link to Madcat at http://madcat.library.wisc.edu/

For this assignment you may want to:

• Find a particular book
• See an extensive list in Madcat
• Search by subject
• Ask a librarian for help

• To find a particular book (for example, one from the assignment bibliography) do a Basic Search by Title:



Tip: If the book you need is checked out, you may be able to borrow it from another UW campus using

• You can see an extensive list in Madcat. This link will retrieve a list of over 700 titles that may be helpful for your assignment.

Use and/or edit your to reduce the number of titles retrieved by this search.

• You can search by subject in Madcat.

• Follow a subject heading link from the listing for one good book to find others on the same topic
  
  
  
  
• Search for particular keywords. Use a Guided Search to combine keywords. Terms that may be useful for your topic include:
      poor
      poor aged
      poor children
      poor women
      rural poor
      urban poor
      working poor
      welfare recipients
      poverty
      famines
      hunger
      case studies
      cost and standard of living
      rural conditions
      social conditions
      developing countries
      Names of individual countries
        Tip: for LDCs, use name of country; for U.S., try names of individual states. If you use a broad term
        such as "Asia," you will not retrieve studies limited to a particular Asian country, e.g. Vietnam.
  
  

• You can always ask a librarian for help

• Email or phone Bev Phillips or Bob Sessions, the library contacts for this class.
• See a librarian in person at the Reference Desk.
• Use the Live Help service to "chat" with a librarian from your home.
• Phone the Reference Desk at (608) 262-9635.
• Use asksteenbock@library.wisc.edu to email your question to a librarian.
• Make an appointment with Bev or Bob for in depth one-on-one help.

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Patricia Herrling
Information Services, Library Instruction Coordinator
608-263-6373


page last revised February 11, 2004

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