Please determine and report to me the level of library support you have available
at your location from both military and non-military sources. Unless you read
and speak a foreign language, limit your search to English language sources.
Look at the course goals, description, learning objectives for the course and lessons as well as the chapter titles, glossary and index in your books to identify key words that will help in your search.
Find out the breadth and depth of library support in these areas. If you have a reference librarian, check with him or her. Also pay close attention to your hard copy and CD-ROM indices - how far back do they go.
Some of CD-ROM sources go back to the late 1980's but many start only in 1991 or 1992. Hard copy periodicals are often kept only one full calendar year in arrears and some issues are inevitably missing. Specialist periodicals are on CD-ROM and you might be able to access the full text of articles from as recently as 3-5 months ago.
Any of you in the Middle East will have to look around for English language sources, but I have had a number of students who have found sufficient magazines available through various organizational libraries or reading rooms. Italy and Spain may have source problems as well as Asia and South America.
Please get back to me with a summary of information on your individual situations.
Some of you may using the same support base, so look at the addresses, contact classmates who might help you with this project, submit a joint report. Nothing formal or enormous required.
In general, I do not know how close anyone is to anyone else in actual physical location because I have no background messages in from you. So do not laugh when I suggest that two people in Spain might use the same support base, etc.
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| Phil Richardson; prichard@faculty.ed.umuc.edu |
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13 June 2004
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