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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.
  
  
• Writing and citation format questions often come to my desk. The University Writing Center located on the 4th floor of the Central Library is the best place to go with questions about writing and citation formating. However, two free and easy citation formatting tools are also often used by students; the CitationMachine and KnightCite. Please, use these with care, neither citation formatting tool is perfectly correct all the time. Also, the bibliographic management software RefWorks can also serve to aid with citation formatting. It too should be used with ample caution.
  
  
• 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 information about ICPSR. I frequently recommend this wonderful research resource to student and faculty researchers.
  
  
• 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.

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A-Z of Food & Drink, Academia.edu, Acronyms, Initialisms & Abbrev. Active Learning Handbook, Adolescence in America: An Ency, Africa & the Americas, American FactFinder, Ancient Europe 8000BC to 1000AD AnthroPlus Database, Archaeologist's Field Handbook, Biographical Dict. of Soc. & Cultural Anthropology, Blackwell Ency of Social Psychology, Boyhood in America: An Ency Business of Enlightenment, Cambridge Dict. of Human Biology & Evolution, Cambridge Ency of Child Development, Cambridge Hbk of Age & Ageing Celtic Culture, Chicago Manual of Style, Child Development, Child Welfare for the Twenty-First Century, Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Ref. Hbk Chronicle of Higher Education, Cities of the United States, Clinical Social Work Practice, Colonialism, Companion Ency of Archaeology Companion to Latina/o Studies, Companion to Nineteenth-Century Europe 1789-1914, Comprehensive Hbk of SW & Social Welfare Concise Corsini Ency. of Psychology & Behavioral Science, Concise Ency of Sociolinguistics, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics, Contemporary Sociological Theory, County & City Data Book, Crime & Punishment: Essential Primary Sources, Crisis Intervention Handbook, Crusades: An Encyclopedia, Death Penalty: An American History, Dict of Environment & Conservation Dictionary of Earth Sciences, Dictionary of Food & Nutrition, Dict. of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations Dictionary of Geography, Dictionary of Psychology, Dictionary of Public Health, Dictionary of Sociology, Dictionary of the Internet, Dict of the Social Sciences, Dissertation Express Database, Domestic Violence, Drug Abuse Handbook, Drug Information Portal, DSM-IV-TR™, 2000, Duke's Handbook of Medicinal Plants of Latin America, Eldercare Handbook, eHRAF World Cultures, Emotionally Abused & Neglected Child, Encyclopaedia Judaica, Encyclopaedia of the Hist of Science, Technology, & Medicine in Non-Western Cultures Ency of Addictions & Addictive Behaviors Ency of African American Society Encyclopedia of Aging, Encyclopedia of AIDS, Encyclopedia of American Journalism, Ency of American Political Parties & Elections, Ency of American Urban History, Encyclopedia of Anthropology, Ency of Archaeology: Hist & Discoveries Ency of Archaeology: Great Archaeologists Ency of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, Encyclopedia of Associations, Ency of Bioethics Encyclopedia of Biostatistics, Encyclopedia of Black Studies, Encyclopedia of Body Adornment, Encyclopedia of Cancer & Society, Encyclopedia of Children, & Childhood, Ency of Children, Adolescents, & the Media, Ency of Clothing & Fashion, Ency of Counseling Encyclopedia of Crime & Justice, Ency of Diasporas Ency of Disability Encyclopedia of Domestic Violence, Ency of Drugs, Alcohol & Addictive Behavior, Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe, Ency of Education Ency of Educational Psychology, Encyclopedia of Elder Care, Ency. of Ethical, Legal & Policy Issues in Biotechnology, Ency of European Social History, Encyclopedia of Food & Culture, Ency of Gangs, Ency of Gay & Lesbian Popular Culture, Ency of Gender & Info Tech Ency of Gender & Society Ency of Genocide & Crimes Against Humanity, Encyclopedia of Gerontology, Encyclopedia of Governance, Encyclopedia of Health & Aging, Ency of Historical Archaeology Encyclopedia of Homelessness, Ency of Human Computer Interaction Ency of Human Development, Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Ency. of Immigration & Migration...., Ency of Judaism Ency of Knowledge Management Ency of Language & Education Ency of Measurement & Statistics, Ency of Medical Anthropology, Encyclopedia of Millennialism, Encyclopedia of Modern Asia, Ency of Multicultural Psychology, Encyclopedia of Multimedia, Ency. of Native American Tribes, Ency of Obesity, Ency of Pain, Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa, Ency of Prisoners of War & Internment, Ency of Psychology & Law Encyclopedia of Race & Ethnic Studies, Ency of Race, Ethnicity & Society Ency of Rape, Ency of Religious & Spiritual Development, Ency of Rural America, Ency of Science & Religion Ency of Science, Technology, & Ethics, Ency of Sexual Behavior & the Law Ency of Social & Cultural Anthropology Ency of Social History Ency of Social Theory Encyclopedia of Sociology, Ency of Statistical Sciences Ency of Substance Abuse Prevention Ency of Survey Research Methods, Ency of the Modern Middle East & North Africa, Ency of the New American Nation Ency of US Campaigns & Elections, Ency of Western Colonialism since 1450 Ency of Women & Religion, Ency of Women Social Reformers, Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Ency of World Poverty Essential Hbk of Eating Disorders Europa World Year Book, Europe Since 1914,

Families in Society, Family in America: An Ency, Fifty Key Sociologists, Forensic Lab. Handbook Forensic Science, Gale Ency. of Children's Health, Gale Ency. of Medicine, Gale Ency. of Mental Disorders, Gale Ency. of Multicultural America, Gale Encyclopedia of Science, Gale Ency. of the Unusual ..., Gambling in America: An Ency, Girlhood in America: An Ency, Gender Issues & Sexuality, Government, Politics, & Protest Great Plains Indians, Greenwood Ency of Folktales... Grzimek's Animal Life Ency, Gun Control in the US, Guns in American Society, Harvard Ency of American Ethnic Groups, Hbk for British & Irish Archaeology, Handbook of Ancient Religions, Hbk of Chicana/o Psychology Hbk of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Handbook of Child Language, Hbk of Childhood & Adoles Obesity, Handbook of Conflict Resolution, Handbook of Death & Dying, Handbook of Disaster Research, Handbook of Gerontology, Handbook of Health Social Work, Hbk of Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities, Handbook of Mental Health Services, Hbk of Mesoamerican Mythology, Hbk of Multicultural Assessment, Handbook of Paleoanthropology, Hbk of Positive Behavior Support, Handbook of Public Policy Analysis, Handbook of Public Administration, Hbk of Sexual & Gender Identity Disorders, Hbk of Social Movements Across Disciplines, Handbook of Social Psychology, Hbk of Social Work in Health & Aging Hbk of South American Archaeology, Handbook of Urban Health, Handbooks of Sociology & Social Research Handbooks of the Sociology of Racial & Ethnic Relations, Hate Crimes: A Reference Handbook Historical Dict. of Human Rights & Humanitarian Organizations, History & Health Policy in the US, Human & Civil Rights, Human Rights Encyclopedia, Human Rights Worldwide, Infancy in America: An Encyclopedia, International Ency. of Adolescence, Intern. Ency of Environmental Politics, Inter Ency of Marriage & Family, Int Ency of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, Int Ency of the Soc Sci (Sills,1968) Int Ency of the Social Sciences, Int Ency of Women's Suffrage, Int Hbk of Career Guidance Inter Hbk of Juvenile Justice Int Hbk of Res on Teaching, Latinas in the United States, Legal Systems of the World, Lesbian Histories & Cultures, Libertarianism Encyclopedia, Lifetime Ency. of Letters, Macmillan Ency of Death & Dying, Macmillan Ency of Energy, Medieval European Pilgrimage, Medieval Folklore, Men & Masculinities, Merck Manual of Diagnosis & Therapy, Minorities: Race & Ethnicity in America Neanderthal Legacy, Nectar & Ambrosia: An Ency of Food in World Mythology Needs Assessment, New Catholic Encyclopedia, New Encyclopedia of Africa, No-Nonsense Cover Letters, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Oxford Book of Health Foods Oxford Comp to Archaeology, Oxford Comp. to Classical Civilization, Oxford Companion to Global Change, Oxford Companion to the Mind, Oxford Comp. to US History, Oxford Companion to Medicine, Oxford Dictionary of Law, Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, Oxford Ency of the Modern World, Oxford Ency of Women in World Hist Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford Guide to the US Gov, Oxford Online Reference Collection, Oxford Scholarship Collection Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine, Parenthood in America: An Ency Peoples of the Caribbean, Points of View Ref. Center Poverty in the United States, Preparing Research Articles, PrimateLit Database, Psychologists & their Theories, ReferenceUSA, Religion & Law in America, Review of General Psychiatry, RefDesk.com Database, Religious Rites, Rituals, & Festivals, Renaissance: An Ency for Students Routledge Dict. of Anthropologists, Sage eReference Encyclopedias, Sage Ency of Qualitative Res Sage Handbook of Healthcare, Science & Its Times, Social Change in America..., Social Science Research Methods Social Trends & Indicators USA Social Welfare History ..., Social Work Abs Database Sociological Abstracts Database, Sociology of Racial & Ethnic Relations, Statistical Abstract, Suicide among Racial & Ethnic Minority Groups, Taber's® Cyclopedic Medical Dict., Testing & Education Reference, Thomas.loc.gov, Treaties with American Indians, Twenty-First Century Education, Twenty-First Century Psychology Twenty-First Century Sociology, Ulrichsweb Guide, Understanding Trauma, US Social Security UT Arlington LibGuides, West's Ency. of American Law, White-Collar & Corporate Crime, Who's Who Among African Amer. Women & War Ency, Women in World History, Work in America, World Poverty, World Press Encyclopedia, Worldmark Ency of the Nations, and Worldmark Ency of the States.

Also handy are my links to ABC-Clio eReference, the CDC-NCHS Health Statistics, the Census Bureau, and my links to community & policy news sources. Also of interest are the GPOAccess Economic Indicators , the Health Economics from the World Health Organization, the ICD-10-CM from the CDC, the ICD-9-CM from STAT!Ref. I keep links to new developments in information technology, science & weather news sources, and my list of university libraries,

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 MSN.com IM screen name is: dillard@uta.edu My Yahoo.com IM screen name is: johnjamesdillard My Google.com/talk IM screen name is: johnjamesdillard - - additionally - - My Skype.com name is: johnjamesdillard 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.