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Librarian

Elizabeth Parang

elizabeth.parang@pepperdine.edu

Contact:

Pepperdine University Libraries
24255 Pacific Coast Hwy
Malibu, CA 90263

310-506-4046

Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Art, Art History, Creative Writing, Education, Humanities, Music, Theatre Arts

Getting Started

Here are two of many great resources to help get you started.

CQ Researcher
Provides professionally fact-checked and footnoted reports on the most current and controversial issues of the day.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Information on social issues including articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, interactive maps, videos, and streaming audio.

This video covers the basics of using Opposing Viewpoints in Context:

Biography in Context

Biography in Context
Provides biographical information on more than 528,000 people throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. The database also provides full-text articles plus much more

People who are well known for their writings may also be included in Literature Resource Center

View Streaming Movies

Academic Video Online
AVON is a comprehensive video subscription, delivering almost 70,000 titles including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
Kanopy Streaming Service
An online streaming video service for universities with films, documentaries, and training videos.

Some videos found in Kanopy:

Watershed - Exploring a New Water Ethic for the New West
Can we find harmony amongst the competing interests of cities, agriculture, industry, recreation, wildlife, and indigenous communities with rights to the water? As the most dammed, dibbed, and diverted river in the world, the Colorado River is a lifeline to expanding populations and booming urban centers that demand water for drinking, sanitation and energy generation, struggling to support thirty million people.
Miss Representation
This film exposes how mainstream media contribute to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America.

Suggested Subjects

Search the library catalog for:

• civil rights

• cultural pluralism

• discrimination

• distributive justice

• educational equalization

• equality

• human rights

• income distribution

• poor laws and poverty

• prejudices

. prisons

• social change

• social ethics

• social justice

• social movements

• social values

• toleration

• welfare economics

Alternative to Wikipedia

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia written collaboratively; anyone with internet access can write and edit Wikipedia articles. Users can contribute anonymously, under a pseudonym, or, if they choose to, with their real identity.

Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) is a collection of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources; these trusted, authoritative reference works are available 24/7.

If you need general information about subjects, persons, places etc. then GVRL is a good place to start.

The library catalog will lead you to many individual reference books such as:

Sage Handbook of Inclusion & Diversity in Education
This e-resource examines policy and practice from around the world, with respect to broadly conceived notions of inclusion and diversity within education.