TURB 301 The Urban Condition
I. Background Information
The following resources while not specific to the South Puget Sound area may give you a start on background for your topics or provide supporting statistics for a subject area you may want to cover.
Encyclopedia of American Urban History
HT 123 E 49 2007, vols. 1-2
Tacoma Reference
Encyclopedia of Homelessness
HV 4493 E 53, vols. 1-2
Tacoma Reference
Encyclopedia of Urban America: the Cities and Suburbs
HT 123 E 5 1998, vols. 1-2
Tacoma Reference
Historical Statistics of the United States
http://www.lib.washington.edu/research/sta.html
This online resource will provides data for the United States from the Colonial Era through the late 1990s and early 2000. Updates to this statistical information can be located via the Statistical Abstract of the United States (see below).
Statistical Abstract of the United States
http://www.lib.washington.edu/research/sta.html
Washington State Newsstand
http://www.lib.washington.edu/types/databases/
Indexing and full-text of major Washington newspapers, including the Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Puget Sound Business Journal, Spokane Spokesman Review, Tacoma News Tribune, and Vancouver Columbian, plus selected coverage of other regional sources
II. Locating Scholarly Books and Articles
UW Libraries Catalog
Link to the catalog from the UWT Library homepage under the heading Resources:
http://www.tacoma.washington.edu/library/
The catalog contains over 1.9 million titles held by more than 20 branches of the UW Libraries (including UW Tacoma Library collections).
All of the following databases can be located by title at:
http://www.lib.washington.edu/types/databases/
Alt-PressWatch
A full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals from alternative and independent presses. This interdisciplinary resource provides a valuable source of viewpoints and perspectives to complement and challenge mainstream media coverage.
Ethnic Newswatch
Full-text ethnic, minority, and native publications.
Expanded Academic ASAP
Scholarly and general interest sources in humanities, social sciences, and science and technology.
Lexis/Nexis Academic
Extensive array of full-text news (newspapers, wire services, transcripts and newsletters), business literature, industry and company information, legal, biographical, and reference resources
PAIS International
Covers social and public policy literature from thousands of periodicals, government documents, books, and other sources
Research Library Complete
Indexing and full text for a basic collection of general-interest, humanities, social science and science periodicals and newspapers
Sociological Abstracts
Contains abstracts of serial literature in sociology and related disciplines from approximately 2,500 journals
Washington State Newsstand
Indexing and full-text of major Washington newspapers, including the Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Puget Sound Business Journal, Spokane Spokesman Review, Tacoma News Tribune, and Vancouver Columbian, plus selected coverage of other regional sources
III. Locating Resources Beyond UW Tacoma Library
Pierce County Web Site
http://www.co.pierce.wa.us/PC/default_noflash.htm
Links to county agencies, minutes, and code and other county governmental information. See Interactive Services in particular for census data for Pierce County
Tacoma City Web Site
http://www.co.pierce.wa.us/PC/default_noflash.htm
Includes links to city council agendas, minutes, boards, commissions, etc.
United States Census
http://www.census.gov/
This can be a complicated site to navigate. Be prepared to spend some time getting acquainted with it and ask the reference staff at UWT Library for assistance.
