FCS 212 Five Family Traditions/Cultural Practices

Selected Web sites
1. Country Studies http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/

2. Portals to the World From the Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html

3. Country Reviews-- CountryWatch database: http://www.countrywatch.com/ip/

Databases
1. InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP
a. Go to http://www.skylinecollege.edu/library/
b. Click on Magazine and Journal Databases http://www.skylinecollege.edu/library/maglinks.html
c. Click on InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP

2. ERIC (Education Resource Information Center) http://www.eric.ed.gov

How to search for books
1. Go to http://catalog.plsinfo.org
2. Enter keywords; for example, Muslim culture.

Selected Books
Culturegrams. 4 vols. Orem, UT: CultureGram, annual.
Available in Library Reference and Circulating Collections: GT 150 C85
Includes information about cultural norms.

American immigrant cultures : builders of a nation /
New York : Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1997.
REF/E184.A1

Gale encyclopedia of multicultural America. Primary documents
Detroit, MI : Gale Group, c1999.
REF/E184.A1 G5

Handbook of Hispanic cultures in the United States /
Houston, Tex. : Madrid, Spain : Arte Publico Press ; Instituto de Cooperacion Iberoamericana, c1993-
REF/E184.S75

Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history
New York : Macmillan Library Reference, c1996.
REF/E185.E54

Worldmark encyclopedia of cultures and daily life /
Detroit, MI : Gale, c1998.
REF/GN333.W67

Oxford illustrated encyclopedia of peoples and cultures /
Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
REF/GN11.O94