Library Catalogs
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TripodTripod now searches for individual journal articles as well as the Tri-College libraries’ collection of books, journal titles, multimedia materials, databases and more.
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WorldCatA catalog of the holdings of books, journals, and other materials held by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) member libraries. Includes manuscripts, maps, films and sound recordings. Covers works published before 1,000 BC-present.
Guides, Encyclopedias, and Biographical Directories
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Africana
by ISBN: 0195170555Publication Date: 2005-04-07More than 4,000 articles cover prominent individuals, events, trends, places, political movements, art forms, business and trade, religion, ethnic groups, organizations and countries on both sides of the Atlantic.
These are often good starting points for learning about a place, person, or topic, and for beginning the process of building a bibliography.
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Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara
by ISBN: 0684804662Publication Date: 1997-12-01This 4-vol. set covers its people, its cultures, and its complex history. Intended for students and the general reader, the Encyclopedia provides current and accurate information in more than 1,000 articles on the sub-Saharan region. The articles describe such topics as archaeology family and kinship; government; politics and law; and African arts; cultures; and languages.
Online Book Collections
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HathiTrustLibrary catalogue of more than 8 million digitized books from the libraries of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, the New York Public, the University of Michigan, and many more academic institutions. About 2 million of the books are immediately available online.
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Google BooksOnline library of more than a million books digitized from the collections of Harvard, Stanford, Michigan, and many other university libraries. The complete texts are available for books in the public domain - principally books printed before 1923. A potential source of published travel accounts from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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The Internet ArchiveThe Internet Archive is a non-profit organization that is building an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. The Internet Archive includes more than 300,000 texts, as well as audio, moving images, software and archived web pages. A good source for books printed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including many travel accounts.
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GallicaGallica is a digital library of French and francophone culture maintained by the Bibliothque nationale de France. Contains numerous electronic texts, images, maps, animation, and sound files of French and other publications in history, literature, science, philosophy, law, economics, and political science. Covers the Middle Ages to the present.
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Cambridge Histories OnlineProvides full text online access to the complete 250-plus volumes of Cambridge Histories reference series. Provides political, economic and social history, philosophy and literature of selected countries and subjects. Includes the 8 volume Cambridge History of Africa (also available in print at Haverford).
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