WRPR 123: Old Age in the Modern Age (HC) Spring 2021

Use the Tripod catalog for your home institution    This link opens in a new window  This link opens in a new window  to look for all books (print and digital) owned by your college as well as the print titles at the other two schools.  

The following searches are a sampling of possibilities.  To find materials on a topic, try doing a keyword search in the Tripod Catalog to find relevant materials and then use the subject headings assigned to those titles to find more books.  Note that all these searches are in the Books+Media channel.  In examples #1 and 4 below, using keywords (rather than subjects) will pick up results from chapter titles.

     "20th century" AND (elderly OR" older people" OR aging)  [Keyword search]           

     (elderly OR older OR aging OR gerontolog*)  AND (history)  [Subjects] AND "united states" [Keyword]     

     (asian* OR chinese* OR japanese* OR vietnamese* OR korean*) [Subject] AND (elderly OR "older people" OR aging) AND ("united states") [Keywords  - Limited to books published 2000-present ]        

         ("nursing home*" OR "long-term care" OR "asylums and homes") AND ("nursing home*" OR "long-term care" OR "asylums and homes")   [Keyword search  - Sorted with the oldest titles first]          

**  Try opening a search above and replace one of the topics with your subject interest.

An important place to look for many materials not owned by the Tricollege Libraries. This combined library catalog contains more than 500 million title records owned by libraries around the world. Many of these items are available to you though interlibrary loan.  Use the  button to place requests.