{"id":2435,"date":"2018-08-22T08:30:05","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T13:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/?p=2435"},"modified":"2018-08-18T00:24:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T05:24:22","slug":"exploring-ames-center-for-resource-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/exploring-ames-center-for-resource-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Ames: Center for Resource Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a Titan, one of the many electronic resources that you have free access to is the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.crl.edu.proxy.iwu.edu\/search~S5\/\">Center for Research Libraries<\/a>. This international consortium of libraries makes available &#8220;approximately five million newspapers, journals, books, pamphlets, dissertations, archives, government publications, and other resources&#8221; from areas which include &#8220;Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Central, South and Southeast Asia, North America, and Europe.&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crl.edu\/collections\">Source<\/a>.)\u00a0You also have access to physical CRL collections through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crl.edu\/services\/borrowing\/loan-policies\">interlibrary loan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2437\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2018\/08\/crl.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"389\" height=\"61\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not quite sure where to start, CRL provides<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crl.edu.proxy.iwu.edu\/collections\/topics\"> topic guides<\/a> to give you a boost. For example, if your research area is South Asian studies, you can find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crl.edu.proxy.iwu.edu\/collections\/topics\/south-asian-studies\">complete runs<\/a> of Indian, Sri Lankan, and Nepalese newspapers on microfilm. CRL&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crl.edu.proxy.iwu.edu\/electronic-resources\/collections\">digital resources<\/a> include periodicals and pamphlets from the 1848 French Revolution and Chinese &#8220;street literature&#8221; from the earliest days of\u00a0Mao Zedong&#8217;s newly formed republic.<\/p>\n<p>Still feeling overwhelmed by this amazing resource? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwu.edu\/library\/information\/fac-staff.html\">Ask a librarian<\/a>! We&#8217;re always happy to help guide you to the materials that you need to get started on your research, whether you&#8217;re a first-year student or longstanding faculty member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a Titan, one of the many electronic resources that you have free access to is the\u00a0Center for Research Libraries. This international consortium of libraries makes available &#8220;approximately five million newspapers, journals, books, pamphlets, dissertations, archives, government publications, and other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/exploring-ames-center-for-resource-libraries\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":880,"featured_media":2438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[159,108,158],"class_list":["post-2435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ames-highlights","tag-center-for-research-libraries","tag-databases","tag-electronic-resources"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2018\/08\/globe-460437_1920.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/880"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2439,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions\/2439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}