Anthropology  Tags: anthropology native_american purchase_requests reserves databases  

1. Review the main UVa library web page - how to get help through library contacts, VIRGO, find Databases, do Interlibrary requests, and connect off-grounds

2. (Some slides from a powerpoint) - on types of library resources (books, journals, web sites), on how to narrow down a topic to search for it.

3. Go to VIRGO and search for some items, also use Advanced search briefly

4. Go to Databases - look at
A) Anthropology Plus (I'll alone have to search it, since we have restricted number of simultaneous users)
B) JSTOR
C) Academic Search Complete
D) Bibliography of Asian Studies
E) Dissertations online and
F) WorldCat (books).
G) point to HRAF

5. Look at RefWorks and explain it

6. Go to the 4th floor stacks to look at a book.

7. Go down to 3rd floor to see were current journals are, microfiche, etc.]

Suggested keywords to search:

• diaspora
• transnationalism
• cross-border migration
• migrants (labor, marriage)
• ethnic identity
• globalization

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