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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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates sometimes want the UT Arlington Library to buy a book, video (DVD), or subscribe to a journal. Here is a link to the Library Materials Purchase forms. Faculty and student researchers are strongly encouraged to make suggestions.
  
  
• 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. Here is a link to an ICPSR User Guide about this wonderful research resource; I frequently recommend ICPSR to student and faculty researchers.
  
  
• Citation format questions often come to my desk. Two free and easy citation formatting tools are CitationMachine and KnightCite. Use with care, neither citation formatting tool is perfectly correct all the time. The bibliographic management software RefWorks can also serve to aid with citation formatting. It too should be used with caution.
  
  
• Intellectual property queries , plagiarism and other types of copyright questions 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, and also see the online publication called, U.T. System Intellectual Property Policy In Plain English. Here also is a link to the "Copyright" article found in the Encyclopedia of Education Law. The article provides a brief overview of the copyright law from an educational perspective.
  
  

Recent Snapshot
	Photo on the left is of my wife, Sara Frances Dillard, also a librarian, with me and a wonderful bald eagle in front of a US Flag. Photo above is of me with books.

Quick facts, figures, and definition-type reference questions call for such online reference works as:

the Academia.edu, the American FactFinder, the Biographical Dict. of Soc. & Cultural Anthropology, the Cambridge Dict. of Human Biology & Evolution, the Cambridge Handbook of Age & Ageing, the Chicago Manual of Style, the Child Welfare for the Twenty-First Century, the Companion Encyclopedia of Archaeology, the Concise Corsini Ency. of Psychology & Behavioral Sci., the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology, the Contemporary Sociological Theory, the County and City Data Book, the Crisis Intervention Handbook, the Dictionary of Food & Nutrition, the Dictionary of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations, the Dictionary of Psychology, the Dictionary of Public Health, the Dictionary of Sociology, the Drug Abuse Handbook, the DSM-IV-TR™, 2000, the Elder Care Handbook, the eHRAF World Cultures, the Emotionally Abused & Neglected Child, the Encyclopaedia Judaica, the Ency of the History of Science, Technology, & Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, the Encyclopedia of Addictions & Addictive Behaviors, the Encyclopedia of African American Society, the Encyclopedia of American Journalism, the Encyclopedia of Archaeology, History and Discoveries, the Encyclopedia of Archaeology The Great Archaeologists, the Encyclopedia of Associations, the Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, & the Media, the Encyclopedia of Diasporas, the Encyclopedia of Disability, the Encyclopedia of Domestic Violence, the Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol & Addictive Behavior, the Encyclopedia of Gay & Lesbian Popular Culture, the Encyclopedia of Gender & Society, the Encyclopedia of Human Development, the Encyclopedia of Judaism, the Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology, the Encyclopedia of Psychology & Law, the Encyclopedia of Social Theory, the Encyclopedia of Substance Abuse Prevention,

the Essential Handbook of Eating Disorders, the Europa World Year Book, the Fifty Key Sociologists, the Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders, the Handbook of Ancient Religions, the Handbook of Childhood & Adoles. Obesity, the Handbook of Conflict Resolution, the Handbook of Gerontology, the Handbook of Public Policy Analysis, the Handbook of Public Administration, the Handbook of Social Psychology, the Handbook of Social Work in Health & Aging the Handbook of South Amer. Archaeology, Handbooks of Sociology & Social Research the Hate Crimes: A Reference Handbook, the History & Health Policy in the U.S., the Human Rights Worldwide: A Handbook, the International Ency of Adolescence, the International Ency of Marriage & Family, the International Ency of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, the Merck Manual of Diagnosis & Therapy, the New Catholic Encyclopedia, the Oxford Companion to Archaeology, the Oxford Comp. to Classical Civilization, the Oxford Companion to Global Change, the Oxford Companion to U.S. History, the Oxford Dictionary of Law, the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, the Oxford Ency. of Women in World History, the Oxford English Dictionary, the Oxford Online Reference Collection, the Poverty in the United States, the ReferenceUSA, the Review of General Psychiatry, the Routledge Dictionary of Anthropologists, the Sage Ency of Social Sci Research Methods the Sage eReference Encyclopedias, the Sage Handbook of Healthcare, the Social Change in America Handbook, the Sociology of Racial & Ethnic Relations, the Statistical Abstract, Taber's® Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, the Testing & Education Reference, and Women and War Encyclopedia.

Also handy are my links to university libraries, community & policy news, some of the new developments in information technology, and a few key science & weather news sources. Also useful are the websites called RefDesk.com, the Census Bureau, the CDC-NCHS Health Statistics, the ICD-10-CM from the CDC, the ICD-9-CM from STAT!Ref, the Points of View Reference Center, the Pew People & Press Center, the World Health Organization - Health Economics , the GPOAccess Economic Indicators , the Student Gateway to the U.S. Government, the PrimateLit Primatology Database, and the National Atlas.

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 the Library's 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 another new chat type communication technology, then here are some other ways to contact me that might be useful.

My EduCause profile is listed under my full name, John James Dillard My Facebook.com profile is listed under my full name, John James Dillard My LibGuides.com profile is listed under my full name, John James Dillard My LinkedIn.com profile is also 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 My MSN.com IM screen name is: dillard@uta.edu - - additionally - - My Twitter.com tweet name is: johnjdillard ->

I hope the Library's meebo chat web form or one of these other chat type communication technologies will work well for you and your question.