Research Guides: HIST 223: Old Age in the Modern Age (HC): Books

Identifying Relevant Books

Use the Tripod catalog to look for relevant books owned by Haverford, Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore.

To find materials on a topic, try doing a keyword search in Tripod to find relevant materials

(aged OR aging OR older OR elder*) history [Subject search] + ("united states" OR america*) [Keyword search]

and then use the subject headings assigned to those titles to find more material:

"old age united states" [Subject search sorted by newest titles first]

(retirement OR pension*) history [Subject search]

Use WorldCat to find books not held by the tri-college libraries.

Tripod: Books & More
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The library catalog of Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges. Use Tripod Books and More to find relevant books, journals, dissertations, films, and other material owned by the tri-college libraries. Click on the "request" button at the bottom of an item's record to have it delivered to Magill or another library.

WorldCat
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An important place to look for materials not owned by the Tri-College Libraries. This combined library catalog contains more than 300 million records describing items owned by libraries around the world. Many of these titles are available to you through interlibrary loan.

Borrowing Beyond the Tri-Co
Request items that are not available in Tripod through E-ZBorrow or Interlibrary Loan. Note that E-Z Borrow is the first place to look for books not in Tripod. It usually takes just three days for E-Z Borrow books to arrive. Books not in E-Z Borrow can come from Interlibrary Loan (ILL) which may take as little as four or five days to arrive.

For journal articles not available in the three colleges, use the Article Delivery form. In around 3 days you will receive a digital copy of the requested articles in your email.

Dissertations

Doctoral students go through an exhaustive literature search when writing their dissertations. They also tend to work on new questions, sometimes ones that have received very little attention from scholars before. You can obtain many of these dissertations and benefit from all the bibliographic treasues and new ideas. Check ProQuest Dissertations & Theses to identify dissertations on your topic.

Dissertations & Theses
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ProQuest Dissertations and Theses is a collection of scholarly research in the Humanities and Social Sciences that consists of 2.7 million searchable citations to dissertations and theses from around the world, and 1.2 million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Coverage is from 1861 to the present day.
research on nursing homes includes:
From elderly care institutions to long-term care policy: Evolution of nursing homes in the United States and China.
Chan, Jane. 2002