Gpss nov presentation

Sara R. Tompson Associate Dean for Public Service USC Libraries * DML 101e [email protected] * [email protected] * 213-740-8700 http://www.slideshare.net/saratifr http://isd.usc.edu/~sarat/

Welcome! What are your majors? What library resources especially interest you? We will have time to cover at the end.

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issues: Mr. Wayne Shoaf, Head of Technical Services: [email protected] or Mr. John Jackson, Technical Services: [email protected]

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  Victorian Popular Culture Portal   Testaments to the Holocaust (British source)   Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences   Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures   Underground and Independent Comics,

Comix and Graphic Novels!

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  Holocaust and Genocide Studies Collection (DML basement)

  Peters Collection (papers of an American missionary in Korea)

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