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Alex Gallin-Parisi
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Contact:
To schedule a time to meet in-person or virtually for research support, click the small blue tag below.
You can also email me directly at agallin@trinity.edu. I try to respond to emails within 24-36 hours during weekdays, often more quickly.
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You can also email me directly at agallin@trinity.edu. I try to respond to emails within 24-36 hours during weekdays, often more quickly.
Finding ebooks
Economists and economics students are using print books less and less frequently, so assume you will use journal articles and chapters from ebooks for most of your research. Coates Library provides access to a lot of ebooks, but downloading them can be a bit tricky at times. Please use this guide to help you navigate our ebook collections: Ebooks Guide at Trinity.
Where are the PRINT books and how do I find them?
- Most print books in the library about the social sciences (including Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science, Law, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Women's Studies, and many more) are on the 2nd floor. These shelves are called the "stacks."
- Each set of shelves holds books on different subjects, but the books are arranged so that books on similar topics will be shelved next to each other. Each subject has a code, which are the letters that begin each book's call number.
- Academic libraries like Coates Library use the Library of Congress Classification call numbers, known as the "LC classification."
- Bookshelves are labeled with different call number ranges, for example, JQ1879-JQ4031.
- In this example, you will find a book with the call number JQ3881 .A73 2009 in that range of shelves, because it begins with a JQ and the number 3881 comes in between 1879 and 4031.
- Books are generally arranged by subject, geography, and time period.
