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IR 428 Library Workshop

Welcome! Please sit with your commodity group !. IR 428 Library Workshop. October 15, 2012 Librarian: Mira Foster. Welcome to the (Information) Farmers Market!. Agenda. Walk the vendor aisles (introduction) Visit the artisanal/handcrafted/local booth (library catalog & databases)

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IR 428 Library Workshop

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  1. Welcome! Please sit with your commodity group! IR 428 Library Workshop October 15, 2012 Librarian: Mira Foster

  2. Welcome to the (Information) Farmers Market!

  3. Agenda • Walk the vendor aisles (introduction) • Visit the artisanal/handcrafted/local booth (library catalog & databases) • Smell, sample, shop (work in groups) • Try some Fair Trade Coffee (UN Sources: FAO Stats) • Decide what ingredients you still need for Sunday dinner (Libguide +class discussion)

  4. International Political Economy of Food & Hunger

  5. Sample Commodity: BANANAS • Search terms: • Banana* = “banana or bananas or bananananas” • Banana* AND trade ≠ “going bananas!”

  6. Recommended Databases EBSCOhost Proquest ABI/Inform Complete (business news + scholarship) OxResearch(briefings from Oxford Scholars) Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (scholarly sources for the International Relations crowd) • Academic Search Complete (everything, lots of full text) • Business Source Complete(Business, trade, scholars) • Environment Complete(Science, economics policy) • Econlit(Good citations for wonks)

  7. Option: Search Multiple Databases

  8. Additional Database: Passport GMID • From Euromonitor International • Reports for countries and consumers on… • Food prices • Tariffs etc. • Fresh food and packaged food industries • Statistics! • Customize and download tables on food prices, exports, imports and trade balances

  9. FAO Statistical Yearbook

  10. http://www.fao.org/economic/worldbananaforum/wbf-aboutus/en/

  11. One last thing: “Go to Costco!” • http://library.sfsu.edu:8008/

  12. Help is Available • International Relations (IR) Librarian: Mira Foster, mira@sfsu.edu • IM from the Libguide: mirasfsu • Phone: (415) 405-2590 • Office Hours: Mon. to Thurs. 9-5pm. Contact Mira for an appointment.

  13. Misc image credits • http://www.mass.gov/agr/massgrown/farmers_markets.htm • http://www.cuesa.org/markets • http://www.ethicurean.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/uw-farmers-market.jpg

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