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What are these sources?

This page recommends online collections of primary sources likely to be of particular use for RCC 100: The Comic Book City.

Call Numbers

Specific call numbers for books are found in the online catalog, but when browsing the shelves, it helps to know something about them.

Books about comic books and strips can be found shelved in the library in the call number range PN 6700 through PN 6790. However, comic books about a specific topic might be classified with other materials on that topic; for example, Nelson Mandela : The Authorized Comic Book can be found with other materials about Mandela under the call number DT1974 .N47 2009. Works that address comic books as part of a broader topic might also be shelved elsewhere; Japanese Visual Culture : Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime can be found under NC1764.5 .J3 J37 2008 among books on the fine arts.

In this course, you will also need to work with resources concerning American history. These can be found under:

E and F -- History of the Americas
For example:

E 151 – E 904 History of the United States
F 1 – F 975 US Local History

The broad topics indicated by the first letter of the "call number" are often broken down into subtopics with a second letter, and are then refined in much greater detail with the addition of numbers. A full listing of Library of Congress call numbers can be found here: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/

The digits in these call numbers are read as counting numbers, not as decimals as in the Dewey Decimal system. This means that DL 1175 is found between DL 1174 and DL 1179, well after DL 117 or DL 118.

This arrangement of books by subject matter makes shelf-browsing convenient. If you find a useful book, the books nearby on the shelf are likely to be closely related in topic.

Note that these call numbers are used both for the circulating collection, of which numbers beginning with E and F are all on the third floor of Olin, and in the reference collection, which is entirely on the second floor.

Asian Studies Resources on the Web

East Asian History Sourcebook Collected links to both primary and secondary sources in English about the history of East Asia (including China.)

History: Asia - Primary Sources. A research guide with many links to primary and secondary sources in Asian history from the University of Washington Libraries.The site is organized into regions (East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia) and by country.

Resources for East Asian Language and Thought: focuses on Buddhist resources. Compiled by Professor A. Charles Muller from University of Tokyo.

The Digital South Asia Library Based at the Center for Research Libraries, participants in the project include the Library of Congress, the Asia Society, the British Library, and the South Asia Microform Project. The digitized materials are assigned to eight primary sections, including Reference Sources such as full-text dictionaries, Images, Maps, and Statistics from the colonial period to the present.

The East Asian Collection Historical images that present a visual archive of 20th century East Asian cultural heritage.

East & Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources

Yale Council on East Asia Studies.

World Digital Library Developed by UNESCO and the Library of Congress, The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.

Asia Society is the leading global and pan-Asian organization working to strengthen relationships and promote understanding among the people, leaders, and institutions of the United States and Asia.

Center for India and South Asia