Purpose:
To introduce you to library resources and services

Objectives:
1. Learn about library resources and services
2. Know how to select the appropriate resources for your assignment
3. Learn how to setup a search strategy

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The library is located on the 2nd floor of the Social Work/Speech & Hearing Sciences Building. The library's collection contains over 40,000 bound volumes and 100+ current journals focusing on various aspects of social work and social welfare.

Library Resources & Services

1. MyUW
2. Healthlinks
3. Social Work Library
4. Connecting to UW
5. Library services
6. Library Resources: Databases, E-Journals, E-Texts, E-Reserves
7. How-To Menu

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Step 1: Select a topic

Example: Social welfare policy:
Social Security Act | Emergency Quota Act (immigration) | Civil Rights Act
Example: Approach to social work practice:
Community organizing | Private practice | Charities | Social settlements
Example: Social work with particular groups:
Disabled | elderly | gays | immigrants | minorities | women
Example: Historical event:
Stock market crash | Japanese-American internment | Orphan trains
Example: Key social work leader:
E. Franklin Frazier | Gordon Hamilton | Jane Addams

Step 2: Get background information

Primary Sources:
Proceedings of the National Conference of Social Work (SW 360 NA)
Social Service Review (scholarly journal)
The Survey (national journal)

Secondary Sources:
Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History (SW Ref HV12 E497)
Encyclopedia of Social Work (SW Ref HV35 S6)
Social Workers' Desk Reference (SW Ref HV40 S6464)
Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Times to the Present

Find Websites:
California Social Welfare Archive
Social Welfare History Project
Social Work History Station
University of Minnesota Social Welfare History Archives
YouTube: CSS Social Welfare History

Check the Library Catalog under these subjects:
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935
Charities--United States--History
Child welfare--United States--History
Human services--United States--History
New Deal, 1933-1939
Progressivism (United States politics)--History
Public welfare--United States--History
Racism--United States--History
Social problems--United States--History
Social reformers--United States
Social security--United States--History
Social service--United States--History
Social settlements--United States--History
Social work with ...
Social workers--United States--Biography
United States--Economic conditions
United States--Emigration and Immigration
United States--Social conditions
United States--Social Policy--History
Welfare state--United States--History

Step 3: Locate research articles

A. Setup search strategy

(Case management OR Child welfare OR Mental health services OR Social casework OR Social services) AND History

(African Americans OR Blacks OR Race OR Ethnic) AND (Social services OR Social work) AND (History OR Socioeconomic factors)

Charities OR Settlements

(Emigration OR Immigration) AND United States AND History

Japanese Americans Evacuation and Relocation 1942-1945

Psychoanalysis AND Social work AND History

Public health history OR Social welfare history OR Social work history

B. Find articles in database
American History & Life | Sample Search
PsycInfo | Sample Search
Social Work Abstracts | Sample Search
Social Services Abstracts | Sample Search
Sociological Abstracts | Sample Search

Step 4: Select different types of articles
Types of Periodicals
Newspapers, Magazines, Trade, Professional, Scholarly/Research
General: Social Work, Families in Society
Specific: Child Abuse & Neglect, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Health & Social Work

Types of Articles
Empirical/research
Analysis/discussion/essays
Editorial/reviews
Policies/practices/problems/theories

Step 5: Evaluate and cite references.

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