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ICPR/POLS 301: Development, Human Rights, and Transnational Injustices (HC)

ICPR/Political Science 301: Development, Human Rights, and Transnational Injustices (Donahue) Fall 2023

Identifying Relevant Books

Use the Tripod catalog for your home institution  Icon    Icon     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 [Any Field] (rather than subjects) will pick up results from chapter titles.

  •   "mass incarceration" AND (policy OR policies)  [Any Field]    Connect from Bryn Mawr College   Icon  Icon
  •    (imprisonment OR prisoner*) AND corrections [Subjects] AND "united states" [Any Field] Newest titles first   Connect from Bryn Mawr College   Icon  Icon

  •   "u.s. citizenship and immigration services"  [Subject]   Connect from Bryn Mawr College  Icon  Icon 
  •   "immigration enforcement united states" [Subject]     Connect from Bryn Mawr College  Icon  Icon
  •    ("puerto rico" OR "puerto rican*") [Any Field] AND (voting OR voter* OR election*) [Subject]   Connect from Bryn Mawr College   Icon  Icon
  •    zapotec* [Any Field]  AND (language OR culture OR history OR education) [Subjects]   Connect from Bryn Mawr College  Icon  Icon

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

Beyond the Tri-College Collections

An important place to look for many materials not owned by the Tricollege Libraries. This combined library catalog contains more than 500 million records for material owned by libraries around the world. Many of these items are available to you though interlibrary loan.  Use the  button to place requests.  Also note that reports are often listed with open access URLs.