Human Development and Family Sciences

Purpose of the Guide

Valery.King@oregonstate.edu (Valery King) — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:19:10 -0700

This is a general research guide for the undergraduate and graduate courses in OSU's Human Development & Family Sciences (HDFS) program. You'll find suggestions for locating books, articles, topical overviews, research tools, and factual information.

As stated on the departmental website, HDFS examines "human development within the context of families, schools, work, communities, and other social and cultural environments." Areas of study span early childhood through the end of life, and have significant overlap with the fields of Sociology, Psychology, and Education.

This subject guide is designed to give students a place to start their research with materials useful in areas of the undergraduate programs in

Early Childhood Development and Education (ECDE)
Human Services
Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS)
Gerontology

Subject librarian for HDFS is Valery King.

Electronic Reference Works

Valery.King@oregonstate.edu (Valery King) — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:00:24 -0700

Electronic reference works, useful when you are unable to get into the library.

Reference Overview

Valery.King@oregonstate.edu (Valery King) — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:29:22 -0700

Reference works are generally referred to for particular pieces of information, rather than read cover to cover. The style used is informative and emphasize facts.They are useful for quick lookups, general overview, and may lead you to authors, concepts, and materials useful in your research.

Reference Works

Valery.King@oregonstate.edu (Valery King) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:46:02 -0700

Dictionaries & thesauri

The Dictionary of family psychology and family therapy / S. Richard Sauber ... [et al.] RC488.5 .D525 1993

Key words in ethics, law, and aging : a guide to contemporary usage / Marshall B. Kapp HQ1061 .K3525 1995

Dictionary of gerontology / Diana K. Harris HQ1061 .H338 1988

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of early childhood education LB1139.25 .E53 1992

Encyclopedia of marriage and the family / David Levinson, editor in chief HQ9 .E52 1995, 2 v.

Encyclopedia of family life / editor, Carl L. Bankston III ; project editor, R. Kent Rasmussen HQ534 .E53 1999, 5 v.

The encyclopedia of aging : a comprehensive resource in gerontology and geriatrics / George L. Maddox, editor-in-chief HQ1061 .E53 1995

Handbooks & directories

Handbook of Marriage and the Family HQ518 .H154 1999

Statistical handbook on the American family / edited by Bruce A. Chadwick and Tim B. Heaton HQ536 .S727 1999

Early childhood curriculum resource handbook: a practical guide for teaching early childhood (pre-K-3) LB1139.4 .E175 1993

Geriatric programs and departments around the world / editors J.-P Michel, ... [et al.] RC952 .G421 1998

Researching the family : a guide to survey and statistical data on U.S. families / edited by Nicholas Zill and Margaret Daly HQ503 .R55 1993

A guide to research in gerontology : strategies and resources / Dorothea R. Zito and George V. Zito HQ1061 .Z51 1988

Bibliographies

Families and aging : a selected, annotated bibliography / compiled by Jean M. Coyle HQ1061 .C61 1991

Inventory of marriage and family literature Z7164.M2 I5

Finding Books

Valery.King@oregonstate.edu (Valery King) — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:49:44 -0700

OSU Libraries Online Catalog - Materials owned by OSU libraries are cataloged in this database, including books, government documents, information about journals the library subscribes to, etc. You can search the database from any computer with Internet access at: http://oasis.oregonstate.edu/

Summit (Orbis Cascades) - Combines many academic library catalogs in Oregon and Washington. Materials in Summit are available to OSU students, faculty & staff within 3 working days if they aren't checked out. You can extend your search from OSU Libraries Online Catalog to Summit with the click of a button, or connect directly at: http://summit.orbiscascade.org

Searching - Online catalogs can be searched by author, title, subject, etc. The most effective subject searching utilizes the Library of Congress Subject Headings. The complete list of subject headings is located in the library's reference area; ask if you need help. Notice that each record in the online catalog will indicate the subject headings assigned to that item, and these are usually hot links to other materials on similar topics.

Locating by call number - OSU Libraries use the Library of Congress Classification system to organize and arrange materials.

WorldCat - If OSU and Summit libraries don’t have what you are looking for, you can search for books in WorldCat, a collective catalog from hundreds of libraries, containing over 60 million records. You can submit interlibrary loan requests directly from this database by clicking on the InterLibrary Loan (ILL) link in the record.

HDFS databases

Valery.King@oregonstate.edu (Valery King) — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:41:30 -0700

Journal articles can be located using library databases. The following are suggested for finding literature pertaining to HDFS topics.

Call Number Searching

Valery.King@oregonstate.edu (Valery King) — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:47:46 -0700

Many HDFS materials fall into the "HQ" call number range and are located on the 5th floor of the Valley Library. More specific groupings of materials include:

BF 1-940	Psychology
HM 1-291	Sociology
HN 1-981	Social History
HQ 9-471	Sexual Life
HQ 503-1064	The Family. Marriage. Home
HQ 1060-1064	Gerontology (Social Aspects)
HQ 1101-2030.7	Women. Feminism
HQ 2035-2039	Life skills. Everyday living skills
LB 1101-1140.5	Child Studies. Preschool Education
RA 421-790.85	Public Health
RC 321-571	Neurology & Psychiatry
RC 952-952.6	Gerontology (Medical Aspects)

Subject Searching

Valery.King@oregonstate.edu (Valery King) — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:48:49 -0700

The most effective subject searching in library catalogs utilizes the Library of Congress Subject Headings. The complete list of subject headings is located in the library's reference area; ask if you need help. Notice that each record in the online catalog will indicate the subject headings assigned to that item, and these are usually hot links to other materials on similar topics. Here is a list of some examples of subject headings for HDFS:

Sex	Sex role
Gender identity	Homosexuality
Lesbianism	Marriage
Divorce	Family
Children	Early childhood education
Adolescence	Parenthood
Grandparenting	Single parent family
Home economics	Consumer education
Gerontology	Aged
Aging	Death

Government Publications

Valery.King@oregonstate.edu (Valery King) — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:43:04 -0700

A great deal of research and publication in HDFS fields is done by state and federal government organizations. Much of this is online and cataloged, so also check the OSU Online Catalog.

Selected US Government Agency websites

Bureau of the Census http://www.census.gov/

Dept. of Education http://www.ed.gov/

National Institute on Early Childhood Development and Education - http://www.ed.gov/offices/OERI/ECI/

Dept. of Health & Human Services http://www.os.dhhs.gov/

Administration on Aging http://www.aoa.dhhs.gov/

Administration for Children and Families http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/

Dept. of Justice

Office on Violence Against Women http://www.usdoj.gov/ovw/

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/

Dept. of Labor

Women's Bureau http://www.dol.gov/wb/welcome.html

State and Local Government sites

Oregon Online http://www.oregon.gov/

Oregon Progress Board http://www.econ.state.or.us/opb/index.htm

Data for Local Communities http://libweb.uoregon.edu/dlc/

more links to a variety of government information can be found in the Government Information subject guide.

Selected Internet Resources

Valery.King@oregonstate.edu (Valery King) — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:45:22 -0700

Oregon State University's HDFS Department Home Page http://www.hhs.oregonstate.edu/hdfs/

Children, Youth and Family Consortium Electronic Clearinghouse http://www.cyfc.umn.edu/

GeriatricWeb http://geriatricweb.sc.edu/

Gerontological Society of America http://www.geron.org/

Human Development and Family Science Extension (Ohio State) http://www.hec.ohio-state.edu/famlife/index.htm

National Child Care Information Center http://nccic.org/

National Council on Family Relations http://www.ncfr.com/

Films in the Classroom

Valery.King@oregonstate.edu (Valery King) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:38:20 -0700

Under current laws, is it permitted to show films in your classroom? The American Library Association and the Association of Research Libraries have released a document to give you some guidance. See: "Performance of or Showing Films in the Classroom"

ICPSR

Valery.King@oregonstate.edu (Valery King) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:42:53 -0700

The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is an international consortium of about 700 academic institutions and research organizations. ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community. ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences, and hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.

As a member of ICPSR, OSU students, faculty, and staff have access to the ICPSR data archive, and to educational activities (including the Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, classroom-ready data, web based instruction, and the Undergraduate Research Paper Competition). OSU researchers also have the opportunity of depositing their own data to take advantage of long-term preservation and worldwide dissemination.

ICPSR is a unit within the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan and maintains its office in Ann Arbor.

For questions regarding ICPSR, please contact Valery King at the Valley Library, phone 737-7318.

Statistics Resources

Valery.King@oregonstate.edu (Valery King) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:16:21 -0700

ChildTrends DataBank - the latest national trends and research on over 80 key indicators of child and youth well-being, with new indicators added each month. Provided by Child Trends, a national leader in the field for over 20 years. http://childtrendsdatabank.org

County and City Databook - Contains statistical information from the U.S. Census Bureau on the following subjects: agriculture, civilian labor force and employment, construction, crime, education, health, housing, land area and population, manufactures, money income and poverty status, social welfare programs and other vital statistics. Data can be scanned on a national, regional, state, county or city basis. All U.S. cities with populations of greater than 25,000 are included.1967, 1972, 1977, 1983, 1988, 1994 in paper: HA203 .A12

The National Center for Education Statistics has released Youth Indicators, 2005: Trends in the Well-Being of American Youth . This report contains statistics that address important aspects of the lives of youth, including family, schooling, work, community, and health. The report focuses on American youth and young adults 14 to 24 years old, and presents trends in various social contexts that may relate to youth education and learning.

Data on the Net Website where you can search or browse a listing of 363 Internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, addresses and more.

AgeSource/AgeStats Worldwide From AARP, designed to complement the Ageline database. Statistical information on the aging population of 25 countries worldwide.

AgingStats.gov Federal interagency forum on aging-related statistics.