1. Sara R. Tompson
Associate Dean for Public Service
USC Libraries * DML 101e
sarat@usc.edu * saratifr@gmail.com *
213-740-8700
http://www.slideshare.net/saratifr
http://isd.usc.edu/~sarat/
Welcome!
What are your majors?
What library resources especially
interest you? We will have time
to cover at the end.

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4.  http://libguides.usc.edu/summon
 How it works:
http://libguides.usc.edu/content.php?
pid=114875&sid=993307
 Decent on mobile devices:
http://
usc.summon.serialssolutions.com/
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5.  USC theses/dissertations published since Fall
2006 are stored in full-text, PDF format on
the USC Libraries Digital Archives site.
 For citations, abstracts, and full-texts of USC
theses/dissertations published since 1932,
search ProQuest.
 Hardcopies of all theses/dissertations
published before Fall 2006 are located in the
Grand Library and can be found by searching
the Homer catalog.
 Search the USC Digital Archive
 Search ProQuest
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6.  http://www.usc.edu/schools/
GraduateSchool/current_thesis_dissert.html
 http://libguides.usc.edu/dissertations
◦ http://libguides.usc.edu/content.php?
pid=13618&sid=164377
◦ Library contacts for thesis and dissertation upload
issues: Mr. Wayne Shoaf, Head of Technical
Services: shoaf@usc.edu or Mr. John Jackson,
Technical Services: johnjack@usc.edu
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https://libproxy.usc.edu/
login?url=https://
www.refworks.com/
Refworks/login.asp?
WNCLang=false

8.  Stay up-to-date via LibWire news, ejournals
and databases:
http://dotsx.usc.edu/newsblog/index.php/
main/local/C1/
◦ You can subscribe to the RSS feed {Anyone using
feeds and readers? I finally am, and rather useful.}
 Also LibWire new acquisitions:
http://dotsx.usc.edu/newsblog/index.php/
main/local/C2/
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9.  Victorian Popular Culture Portal
 Testaments to the Holocaust (British source)
 Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences
 Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures
 Underground and Independent Comics,
Comix and Graphic Novels!
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10.  Holocaust and Genocide Studies Collection
(DML basement)
 Peters Collection (papers of an American
missionary in Korea)
 ONE Institute now officially part of USC
Libraries (on Adams St.)
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 USC Libraries
 VKC Library
 Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery (IDD)
 Public Services
 MANY librarians and staff – Friend us, we are
happy to answer reference questions on FB