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Welcome! My name is John Dillard; I am the Social Work and Social Science Librarian here at the UT Arlington Library.

Here are some useful guides and bibliographies for students and faculty in:

• SOCIAL WORK
  
  
  
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• SOCIOLOGY & ANTHROPOLOGY.

My email address and phone number are:

The Social Work Electronic Library (SWEL) is in Room 111 of building "A" of the Social Work Complex (SWC); 211 S. Cooper St., Arlington, TX. See the symbol, SWC-A, shown on this UT Arlington Campus Map. Here is a link to the homepage for the UT Arlington School of Social Work. University Hall is the home for the UT Arlington College of Liberal Art's Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and this UT Arlington Campus map marks University Hall with a circle.

UT Arlington is a member of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). The ICPSR provides access to an important archive of social science data for research and instruction. I frequently recommend ICPSR to student and faculty researchers.

Citation format questions, plagiarism, copyright, and other types of intellectual property queries often come to my attention. Georgia K. Harper is the Scholarly Communications Advisor for the University of Texas at Austin Libraries, where she focuses on issues of digital access. She was Senior Attorney and manager of the Intellectual Property Section of the Office of General Counsel for the University of Texas System, until August 2006, where she specialized in copyright law. I frequently recommend her online publication the, Copyright Crash Course, which provides guidance to faculty, students, and staff with copyright issues.

My work takes me all over campus; therefore, I am not always at my desk in the Social Work Electronic Library (SWEL). When arranged in advance, by email dillard@uta.edu, I can set aside a time or stay late to consult on your research project. Also, when arranged in advance, by email dillard@uta.edu, meetings on Saturdays might be possible at the new UT Arlington/Fort Worth Center -- Santa Fe Station Library. This link to my online appointment calendar might be useful as a scheduling aid to see when I might be available; then contact me by email: dillard@uta.edu.

Recent Snapshot
	My wife, Sara Frances Dillard, also a librarian, and me with a wonderful bald eagle.

Quick fact-type reference questions call for a wonderful site called RefDesk.com. My links to community & policy news, new developments in information technology and SafariBooks are all quiet useful. The new WorldCat Advanced Search and a few key science & weather news sources are also often handy.

If you have a question or a comment for me and if for some reason sending an email directly to me [ dillard@uta.edu ] does not appeal to you; then here is a link to a meebo chat web form to ask a question or send a message to the UT Arlington Library's Information Services Staff at UT Arlington Library's Central Library Reference Desk. They will pass the question or comment on to me when they have a chance.

If you wish to use a newer communication technology, then here are some that might be useful.

My LinkedIn.com profile is listed under my full name, John James Dillard My Facebook.com profile is listed under my full name, John James Dillard - - or - - Text message to my cell phone at: 817.675.8962 My talk.uta.edu UT Arlington Maverick (Spark/Jabber) IM screen name is: dillard - - also - - My Yahoo.com IM screen name is: johnjamesdillard My Google.com/talk IM screen name is: johnjamesdillard - - additionally - - My AIM.com IM screen name is: dillard@uta.edu My MSN.com IM screen name is: dillard@uta.edu

I hope the meebo chat web form or one of these myriad other chat type communication technologies will work well for you and your questions.