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Mexican and Mexican-American Agricultural Labor in the United States: Bibliographical Sources
Int. Libr. Rev. (1986) 18, 161-166
Mexican and Mexican-American Agricultural Labor in the United States: Bibliographical Sources MARTIN H. SABLE*
I. A R T I C L E S , FROM A L T E R N A T I V E AND DISSIDENT MAGAZINES AND N E W S P A P E R S
Alternative Press Index. Northfield, Minnesota: December 1969-Sep-
tember 1970; Toronto, Canada: October 1970-June 1971; College Park, MD: July 1971-March 1974; Baltimore, MD: April 1974- (quarterly, cumulating annually). II.
ARTICLES, DAILY NEWSPAPER
Newspaper Index: Index to the Los Angeles Times.* Wooster, Ohio:
Indexing Center, Micro Photo Division, Bell & Howell Co., 1972 (quarterly, cumulating annually). III.
A R T I C L E S , FROM P O P U L A R MAGAZINES
Readers Guide to Periodical Literature.* Minneapolis & New York: Wilson
Co., 1905 (semimonthly September to December inclusive, and March, April and June; monthly in January, February, May, July and August, with a bound cumulation each year). I V . A R T I C L E S , FROM SCHOLARLY AND S P E C I A L I Z E D JOURNALS
Business Periodicals Index.* New York: Wilson Co., January 1958(monthly except August, cumulating annually. Formerly Industrial Arts Index, 1913-1958). Also contains some popular articles.
* 4518 North Larkin Street, Milwaukee WI 53211, USA. 0020-7837/86/020161 + 06 $03.00/0
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Foreign Language Index.* New York: Public Affairs Information Service, 1972 (quarterly, cumulating annually). Also contains conference papers and proceedings, government publications, monographs, pamphlets and articles from French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish scholarly journals and other sources. Handbook of Latin American Studies.'~ Cambridge, MA: Harvard College, 1936-1947; Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 1948-1978; Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1979 (issued annually, and featuring Social Sciences and Humanities fields in alternate years). Hispanic American Periodicals Index. Cumulative Issue 1974. Tempe, AZ: Center for Latin American Studies, Arizona State University, 1974. Hispanic American Periodical Index 1975- . Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1977- (issued annually). Human Resources Abstracts.~ Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, March 1975- (quarterly, cumulating annually. Formerly Poverty and Human Resources Abstracts. Ann Arbor: Institute of Labor & Industrial Relations, University of Michigan-Wayne State University, 1966February 1975). Public Affairs Information Service. Bulletin.* New York: 1915- (semimonthly, cumulating quarterly and annually). Also contains conference papers and proceedings, government publications, monographs, pamphlets and research reports, published in English. Name of database: PAIS.
Population Index. Princeton, NJ: Office of Population Research, Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton University, for the Population Association of America, Inc. volume 1- , 1935- (quarterly, cumulating annually). Name of database: POPULATION I N F O R M A T I O N O N L I N E . Social Sciences Index.* New York: Wilson, June 1974- (quarterly, cumulating annually). Formerly, for the period April 1965-June 1974, entitled Social Sciences and'Humanities Index. From the year 1907 to January 1965, entitled International Index to Periodicals. Sociological Abstracts.*~ New York and San Diego: volume 1- , 1952(six times yearly, with the final issue being the cumulative index issue for each year).
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V. A R T I C L E S , P O P U L A R , AND OF L I T E R A R Y INTEREST,
FROM 19TH CENTURY U S AND BRITISH MAGAZINES Poole's Index to Periodical Literature. Revised Edition. 6 vols. New York: Peter Smith, 1938. (Indexes literary and popular magazines for the period 1802-1906 inclusive.)
V I . AUDIOVISUAL M A T E R I A L S
Educational Film Locator of the Consortium of University Film Centers and R. R. Bowker Company. New York: Bowker, 1978, 2178 pp. Educators Guide to Free Films. 45th Annual Edition 1985. Randolph, WI: Educators Progress Service, Inc., 1941- (annual).
National Information Center for Educational Media (NICEM), Access Innovations, PO Box 40130, Albuquerque, NM 87196, issues catalogs under the following titles (see latest editions): Index to 8 mm Motion Cartridges. 6th ed. Index to Educational Audio Tapes. 5th ed. Index to 16 mm Educational Films. 8th ed. 4 vols. Index to 35 mm Educational Filmstrips. 8th ed. 3 vols. Index to Educational Overhead Transparencies. 6th ed. Index to Educational Records. 5th ed. Index to Educational Slides. 4th ed. Index to Educational Video Tapes. 6th ed. Name of database: AV ONLINE.*
US Library of Congress. Library of Congress Catalogs, Audiovisual Materials.* Washington: 1979-1982. Formerly Films ( 1973-1977), and prior to that period, Motion Pictures and Filmstrips (1953 1972); from 1948-1952 Films. This source lists motion pictures, filmstrips, sets of transparencies, slide sets, kits and videotapes. (As of 1 January 1983, Library of Congress Catalogs are available in microfiche, and through direct online access. Print format subscriptions may also be ordered.) Name of database: AUDIOVISUALMATERIALS. US Library of Congress. Library of Congress Catalog--Music and Phonorecords, 195~1972. Washington: 1953-72 (semi-annual, cumulating annually). From the period 1973 82, and onward, title changed to Music, Books on Music, and Sound Recordings.
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V I I . BOOKS, CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, DISSERTATIONS, GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS, AND PAMPHLETS
US Library of Congress. Library of Congress Catalog. Books: Subjects, 19501954. A Cumulative List of Works Represented by Library of Congress Printed Cards.* Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards, 1955, 20 vols. , 1955-1959. Paterson, NJ: Pageant Books, 1960, 22 vols. , 1960-1982. New York and Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield (issued annually, and cumulating every four years. Note: as of 1 January 1983, Library of Congress Catalogs are available in microfiche and through direct online access. Print-format subscriptions may also be ordered. Name of database: MARCBOOKS-ALL). VIII.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS AND ANTHOLOGIES
Essay and General Literature Index. New York: Wilson Co., 1900- (semiannual, annually and every four years). Contains material in English only. IX.
COMPUTERIZED DATABASE COVERING BORDER STUDIES
Borderline. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1982- (covers research reports, books, journal titles and periodical articles, government publications, pamphlets, masters' theses, dissertations, conference papers and proceedings, maps, slides, music scores in English and foreign languages. Disciplines in the social' sciences, humanities and science-technology are represented, with stress on such fields as labor, emigration, immigration, business and industry, agriculture and rural development, trade, inter-governmental relations, communications and mass media, language and linguistics, history, literature, religion, the arts, medicine and public health. See your Reference Librarian for further information). X . DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS
Comprehensive Dissertation Index, 1861 1972.* Ann Arbor, MI: Xerox University Microfilms, 1973, 37 vols. Beginning in 1973, it is issued quarterly, cumulating annually. See entries under "Business and Economics", and under "Sociology" (see also annual supplements). X I . GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS
Monthly Checklist of State Publications. Washington: Library of Congress, 1 9 1 0 - (issued monthly, cumulating annually).
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Monthly Catalog of US Government Publications.* Washington: Superintendent of Documents, US Government Printing Office, 1895- (issued monthly, cumulating annually). Name of database: ePo MONTHLY CATALOG. XII.
MANUSCRIPT MATERIALS
The National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, 1959-1961, Based on Reports From American Repositories of Manuscripts. Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards Publishers, 1962, 1061pp. --, 1963-1964. Washington: Library of Congress, 1965, 500 pp. (Note beginning with the 1965 issue, it appears annually). XIII.
MASTERS' THESES
Masters" Abstracts: Abstracts of Selected Masters' Theses on Microfilm.* Ann Arbor, MI: Xerox University Microfilms, 1962- (quarterly, cumulating annually). Note: Masters' Abstracts is also published in print format. X I V . PAMPHLETS Vertical File Index. New York: Wilson Co., 1932 (monthly except August, cumulating annually). X V . RESEARCH REPORTS, REFERENCE WORKS, CONFERENCE
P A P E R S AND PROCEEDINGS
Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). Bethesda, MD: Resources in Education.*~ Washington; available from Superintendent of Documents, US Government Printing Office (volume 1 , NovemberDecember 1966- , monthly, cumulating annually). See also Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin, and Library of Congress Catalog. Books: Subjects. Name of database: ERIC. Notes: * Available in both print format and online. "~Abstracting service, containing both bibliographical data and summaries of books, pamphlets, government publications, conference proceedings and dissertations, in addition to journal articles. SUBJECT H E A D I N G S
Unless you know the author of a specific work, your approach must be by subject. In view of the wide diversity of materials, and the flexibility in choice of specific subject headings utilized by the many individual
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reference sources listed herein, it is i m p o r t a n t to d e t e r m i n e the subject h e a d i n g s a d o p t e d b y the specific reference w o r k w h i c h y o u p l a n to consult. T h e m a n y a l t e r n a t i v e official subject h e a d i n g s listed b e l o w in the " s e e " c o l u m n , w e r e checked, since s o m e sources e m p l o y several of these, while others h a v e a d o p t e d o n l y one in e a c h c a t e g o r y .
For information on: Agricultural Workers Agriculture (non-technical aspects) Alien Workers Chicanos Immigrants Mexican-Americans Migrant Workers Strikes Undocumented Workers Unions of Farm Workers
See subject headings: Agricultural Labor(ers); Farm Labor(ers) Agribusiness Alien Labor(ers); Undocumented Workers Chicanos; Hispanic Americans; Mexican-Americans Immigration and Emigration; Mexicans in the United States Mexican-Americans; Chicanos; Hispanic Americans; Hispanics Migratory Workers; Migrants in the United States Strikes, United States (scan for entries on farmworkers' strikes) Alien Labor(ers); Undocumented Workers Ch~tvez, C~sar Estrada; Trade Unions (scan for entries on farmworkers' unions); United Farm Workers; United Farm Workers of America; United Farm Workers Organizing Committee
Source for identifying subject headings for any topic: US Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division. Library of CongressSubject Headings. 8th ed. Washington: 1975, 2 vols.
Mexican and Mexican-American Agricultural Labor in the United States: Bibliographical Sources MARTIN H. SABLE*
I. A R T I C L E S , FROM A L T E R N A T I V E AND DISSIDENT MAGAZINES AND N E W S P A P E R S
Alternative Press Index. Northfield, Minnesota: December 1969-Sep-
tember 1970; Toronto, Canada: October 1970-June 1971; College Park, MD: July 1971-March 1974; Baltimore, MD: April 1974- (quarterly, cumulating annually). II.
ARTICLES, DAILY NEWSPAPER
Newspaper Index: Index to the Los Angeles Times.* Wooster, Ohio:
Indexing Center, Micro Photo Division, Bell & Howell Co., 1972 (quarterly, cumulating annually). III.
A R T I C L E S , FROM P O P U L A R MAGAZINES
Readers Guide to Periodical Literature.* Minneapolis & New York: Wilson
Co., 1905 (semimonthly September to December inclusive, and March, April and June; monthly in January, February, May, July and August, with a bound cumulation each year). I V . A R T I C L E S , FROM SCHOLARLY AND S P E C I A L I Z E D JOURNALS
Business Periodicals Index.* New York: Wilson Co., January 1958(monthly except August, cumulating annually. Formerly Industrial Arts Index, 1913-1958). Also contains some popular articles.
* 4518 North Larkin Street, Milwaukee WI 53211, USA. 0020-7837/86/020161 + 06 $03.00/0
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Foreign Language Index.* New York: Public Affairs Information Service, 1972 (quarterly, cumulating annually). Also contains conference papers and proceedings, government publications, monographs, pamphlets and articles from French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish scholarly journals and other sources. Handbook of Latin American Studies.'~ Cambridge, MA: Harvard College, 1936-1947; Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 1948-1978; Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1979 (issued annually, and featuring Social Sciences and Humanities fields in alternate years). Hispanic American Periodicals Index. Cumulative Issue 1974. Tempe, AZ: Center for Latin American Studies, Arizona State University, 1974. Hispanic American Periodical Index 1975- . Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1977- (issued annually). Human Resources Abstracts.~ Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, March 1975- (quarterly, cumulating annually. Formerly Poverty and Human Resources Abstracts. Ann Arbor: Institute of Labor & Industrial Relations, University of Michigan-Wayne State University, 1966February 1975). Public Affairs Information Service. Bulletin.* New York: 1915- (semimonthly, cumulating quarterly and annually). Also contains conference papers and proceedings, government publications, monographs, pamphlets and research reports, published in English. Name of database: PAIS.
Population Index. Princeton, NJ: Office of Population Research, Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton University, for the Population Association of America, Inc. volume 1- , 1935- (quarterly, cumulating annually). Name of database: POPULATION I N F O R M A T I O N O N L I N E . Social Sciences Index.* New York: Wilson, June 1974- (quarterly, cumulating annually). Formerly, for the period April 1965-June 1974, entitled Social Sciences and'Humanities Index. From the year 1907 to January 1965, entitled International Index to Periodicals. Sociological Abstracts.*~ New York and San Diego: volume 1- , 1952(six times yearly, with the final issue being the cumulative index issue for each year).
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163
V. A R T I C L E S , P O P U L A R , AND OF L I T E R A R Y INTEREST,
FROM 19TH CENTURY U S AND BRITISH MAGAZINES Poole's Index to Periodical Literature. Revised Edition. 6 vols. New York: Peter Smith, 1938. (Indexes literary and popular magazines for the period 1802-1906 inclusive.)
V I . AUDIOVISUAL M A T E R I A L S
Educational Film Locator of the Consortium of University Film Centers and R. R. Bowker Company. New York: Bowker, 1978, 2178 pp. Educators Guide to Free Films. 45th Annual Edition 1985. Randolph, WI: Educators Progress Service, Inc., 1941- (annual).
National Information Center for Educational Media (NICEM), Access Innovations, PO Box 40130, Albuquerque, NM 87196, issues catalogs under the following titles (see latest editions): Index to 8 mm Motion Cartridges. 6th ed. Index to Educational Audio Tapes. 5th ed. Index to 16 mm Educational Films. 8th ed. 4 vols. Index to 35 mm Educational Filmstrips. 8th ed. 3 vols. Index to Educational Overhead Transparencies. 6th ed. Index to Educational Records. 5th ed. Index to Educational Slides. 4th ed. Index to Educational Video Tapes. 6th ed. Name of database: AV ONLINE.*
US Library of Congress. Library of Congress Catalogs, Audiovisual Materials.* Washington: 1979-1982. Formerly Films ( 1973-1977), and prior to that period, Motion Pictures and Filmstrips (1953 1972); from 1948-1952 Films. This source lists motion pictures, filmstrips, sets of transparencies, slide sets, kits and videotapes. (As of 1 January 1983, Library of Congress Catalogs are available in microfiche, and through direct online access. Print format subscriptions may also be ordered.) Name of database: AUDIOVISUALMATERIALS. US Library of Congress. Library of Congress Catalog--Music and Phonorecords, 195~1972. Washington: 1953-72 (semi-annual, cumulating annually). From the period 1973 82, and onward, title changed to Music, Books on Music, and Sound Recordings.
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V I I . BOOKS, CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, DISSERTATIONS, GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS, AND PAMPHLETS
US Library of Congress. Library of Congress Catalog. Books: Subjects, 19501954. A Cumulative List of Works Represented by Library of Congress Printed Cards.* Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards, 1955, 20 vols. , 1955-1959. Paterson, NJ: Pageant Books, 1960, 22 vols. , 1960-1982. New York and Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield (issued annually, and cumulating every four years. Note: as of 1 January 1983, Library of Congress Catalogs are available in microfiche and through direct online access. Print-format subscriptions may also be ordered. Name of database: MARCBOOKS-ALL). VIII.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS AND ANTHOLOGIES
Essay and General Literature Index. New York: Wilson Co., 1900- (semiannual, annually and every four years). Contains material in English only. IX.
COMPUTERIZED DATABASE COVERING BORDER STUDIES
Borderline. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1982- (covers research reports, books, journal titles and periodical articles, government publications, pamphlets, masters' theses, dissertations, conference papers and proceedings, maps, slides, music scores in English and foreign languages. Disciplines in the social' sciences, humanities and science-technology are represented, with stress on such fields as labor, emigration, immigration, business and industry, agriculture and rural development, trade, inter-governmental relations, communications and mass media, language and linguistics, history, literature, religion, the arts, medicine and public health. See your Reference Librarian for further information). X . DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS
Comprehensive Dissertation Index, 1861 1972.* Ann Arbor, MI: Xerox University Microfilms, 1973, 37 vols. Beginning in 1973, it is issued quarterly, cumulating annually. See entries under "Business and Economics", and under "Sociology" (see also annual supplements). X I . GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS
Monthly Checklist of State Publications. Washington: Library of Congress, 1 9 1 0 - (issued monthly, cumulating annually).
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Monthly Catalog of US Government Publications.* Washington: Superintendent of Documents, US Government Printing Office, 1895- (issued monthly, cumulating annually). Name of database: ePo MONTHLY CATALOG. XII.
MANUSCRIPT MATERIALS
The National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, 1959-1961, Based on Reports From American Repositories of Manuscripts. Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards Publishers, 1962, 1061pp. --, 1963-1964. Washington: Library of Congress, 1965, 500 pp. (Note beginning with the 1965 issue, it appears annually). XIII.
MASTERS' THESES
Masters" Abstracts: Abstracts of Selected Masters' Theses on Microfilm.* Ann Arbor, MI: Xerox University Microfilms, 1962- (quarterly, cumulating annually). Note: Masters' Abstracts is also published in print format. X I V . PAMPHLETS Vertical File Index. New York: Wilson Co., 1932 (monthly except August, cumulating annually). X V . RESEARCH REPORTS, REFERENCE WORKS, CONFERENCE
P A P E R S AND PROCEEDINGS
Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). Bethesda, MD: Resources in Education.*~ Washington; available from Superintendent of Documents, US Government Printing Office (volume 1 , NovemberDecember 1966- , monthly, cumulating annually). See also Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin, and Library of Congress Catalog. Books: Subjects. Name of database: ERIC. Notes: * Available in both print format and online. "~Abstracting service, containing both bibliographical data and summaries of books, pamphlets, government publications, conference proceedings and dissertations, in addition to journal articles. SUBJECT H E A D I N G S
Unless you know the author of a specific work, your approach must be by subject. In view of the wide diversity of materials, and the flexibility in choice of specific subject headings utilized by the many individual
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reference sources listed herein, it is i m p o r t a n t to d e t e r m i n e the subject h e a d i n g s a d o p t e d b y the specific reference w o r k w h i c h y o u p l a n to consult. T h e m a n y a l t e r n a t i v e official subject h e a d i n g s listed b e l o w in the " s e e " c o l u m n , w e r e checked, since s o m e sources e m p l o y several of these, while others h a v e a d o p t e d o n l y one in e a c h c a t e g o r y .
For information on: Agricultural Workers Agriculture (non-technical aspects) Alien Workers Chicanos Immigrants Mexican-Americans Migrant Workers Strikes Undocumented Workers Unions of Farm Workers
See subject headings: Agricultural Labor(ers); Farm Labor(ers) Agribusiness Alien Labor(ers); Undocumented Workers Chicanos; Hispanic Americans; Mexican-Americans Immigration and Emigration; Mexicans in the United States Mexican-Americans; Chicanos; Hispanic Americans; Hispanics Migratory Workers; Migrants in the United States Strikes, United States (scan for entries on farmworkers' strikes) Alien Labor(ers); Undocumented Workers Ch~tvez, C~sar Estrada; Trade Unions (scan for entries on farmworkers' unions); United Farm Workers; United Farm Workers of America; United Farm Workers Organizing Committee
Source for identifying subject headings for any topic: US Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division. Library of CongressSubject Headings. 8th ed. Washington: 1975, 2 vols.