Using the Pollak Library
The Pollak Library is open to the public. Anyone can come into the library and use the books, magazines, journals, newspapers, electronic databases, and open study spaces while in the library. Sorry, only currently registered CSUF people can access online subscription materials at home.
Public Use of Computers: It is necessary to obtain a guest log-in to use computers.
Summer Hours Monday - Thursday 7:30am-6:30pm    more details on Library hours
                               Friday     7:30am-5pm,  Saturday 12noon-5pm, closed Sundays                  
Parking is $8.00 a day per car during the week.
    Weekend Parking: no charge and there are more open parking spaces.
Printing and Copying Printing and Copying is .10 per page, plus $1 debit card.   

NOTE: The online databases listed here are all found in the same place:
Library Home page -> Find Databases

Starting Research:
Pollak Library Research Guides for all majors on campus
Gale Virtual Reference Library, online search engine for 1250+  volumes of Reference books,
       New Urbanism  OR propaganda  OR  Black Sabbath  OR  biofuels
Oxford Reference Online

 
How locate books this library owns
Library Catalog http://opac.fullerton.edu    This is an online listing of everything the library owns.
        Such as: books, journals, newspapers, recordings, maps, government documents.
            Subject:  sports and doping...leads to Doping In sports
            Keyword: Soviet Propaganda ...leads to Propaganda - Soviet (subject)
                            Bible translations... leads to Bible-Versions (subject)
            Author: Austen, Jane  Subject: Austen, Jane  

What are scholarly journals

                        
How to locate research articles on a topic:
Academic Search Premier General database with magazines, journals, and a few newspapers
             marijuana and (legalization or decriminalization) and (economics or microeconomics or economists)    

 
Additional Databases:
ABI/Inform International business database, LRG or OBEY (company)
American History and Life: historical, US and Canada, Kennedy and Nixon and Television
Historical Abstracts:  historical database covering the rest of the world Helsinki Agreement and rights
PAIS  Political Science & Criminal Justice,  extraordinary rendition   OR    Hamden and Rumsfeld
Lexis/Nexis Academic Legal > Federal and State Cases > Sources: Supreme Court
       548 U.S. 557 (Supreme Court citation)
MLA International Bibliography Literary criticism
      Jane Austen (SA Primary Subject Author) and women or females
Sociological Abstracts Starbucks   OR     Vietnamese and California
Social Science Abstracts Vietnamese and acculturation or adaptation
Biological Abstracts Online, 1969 to current date         
Biological Abstracts in paper, 1926 to 1998, Reference QH301 .B37
PyscINFO psychological research, Adult Offspring (SU Subject) and Adult offspring (SU Subject)
RILM (classical music research database) Beethoven, Ludwig van (subject) and Romanticism
Music and Performing Arts Online Black Sabbath
Sports Discus  sports and athletics synthetic turf leads to "synthetic sporting surfaces" Su Subjects
Green File Antioxidants and organic   OR   fuel and vegetable oil
Agricola (agriculture database) Antioxidants and organic and fruits or vegetables
International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance  television and dance
Engineering Village Carbon (controlled term) and Nanotubes (controlled term)   OR   Flying Wing
Omnifile Full Text Mega: Education, General Science, Humanities, magazines, Social Sciences, Business, Applied Science, Art, Biology, Agriculture, Legal, and Information Science.
        Military Airplanes (subject) and innovations or World War
CQ Researcher background information on controversial topics
Opposing Viewpoints background information on controversial topics
Proquest Newspapers 300+ U.S. Newspapers
Readers Guide (magazines)

Open-to-the-public research materials that may be of assistance:
CRS Reports  google search: "crs report for congress" outsourcing India
Statistical Abstract of the United States (click on historical) change in statistics historically
       This set is also in print version in Gov Documents, 3rd floor C 3.134, back to 1878
PubMed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez   (medical research)
Census: American Fact Finder  http://factfinder.census.gov/

Getting help in the Pollak Library: Reference Desk, 1st floor North, 657 278-3284

Prepared by Cynthia Bruns, Instruction and Reference Librarian, An administrative page of the Paulina June & George Pollak Library at California State University, Fullerton. (c) 2008 California State University, Fullerton. All rights reserved. Date this site was last updated:  06/09/09

Locating primary resources through databases
      Readers’ Guide Retrospective 1890-1982, Popular magazine articles by subject
     Los Angeles Times - Historical 1881-1985,
     New York Times Historical - 1851-2002,
     The Times (London) 1785-1985, Suez Canal and Nasser and July 1956
     America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922, selected date and newspapers

Digitized collections of primary sources, CSUF subscription:
    American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
    North American Women's Letters and Diaries
    North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories
    Black Thought and Culture non-fiction writings in all subjects, from 1776 to current
    British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
    In the First Person personal narratives including letters, diaries, oral histories, interviews, etc
    Historic Documents primary sources covering current events from 1972 to present
    Women and Social Movements Documents, including primary from 1766 to current,

Digitized Collections which are open to the public
    American Memory Project from the Library of Congress
    Internet Public Library: Historical Documents  list of collections
   
    note: searching Google? try "digitized collection" and your subject
           

Locating primary resources through library print sets
Terms for locating primary materials in the catalog: anecdotes, personal narratives, correspondence, diaries, primary, letters, speeches, sources
    American Decades Primary Sources (1900-2000) Reference E169.1 .A471977
    The Civil War Chronicle : day-by-day portrait of America's tragic conflict as told by soldiers... Ref E655 .C49 
    Documents of American History Reference  E173 .C66 1973b 
    Encyclopedia of American Historical Documents Reference  E173 .E54  v. 1-3
    Presidents from Washington through Monroe, 1789-1825:Primary Documents Ref E176.1 .S927  
    Presidents From Roosevelt Through Coolidge, 1901-1929 Primary Documents Reference E176.1 .P9225
    Presidents From Hoover Through Truman, 1929-1953 Primary Documents Reference E176.1 .P9214
    Presidents from Reagan through Clinton, 1981-2001  Primary Documents Reference E176.1 .P922 
    Race Relations in America: a Reference Guide with Primary Documents 6th floor south E184.A1 D283
    Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s, 6th floor, E185.615 .H65
    Primary Documents in American History and Contemporary Issues  various topics, 

Getting help in the Pollak Library: Reference Desk, 1st floor North, 714 278-3284

Prepared by Cynthia Bruns, Instruction and Reference Librarian, An administrative page of the Paulina June & George Pollak Library at California State University, Fullerton. (c) 2008 California State University, Fullerton. All rights reserved. Date this site was last updated:  06/09/09