Using OneSearch
Search for books and ebook using OneSearch. You will find a "OneSearch" button in the center of the library webpage, or linked in the OneSearch image below. OneSearch allows you to search EVERYTHING the library has access to, including print books and eBooks, plus journal articles and more from our databases. Click on the OneSearch image below to access this resource (right click to open in a new tab).
When you click on the OneSearch button, it will take you to a Search Anything search bar. When you start typing your search, you will see some drop-down options for the kind of search you want to do. Choose the third option, BC Library Books & eBooks, if you'd like to focus your search on books.
For the best results, sign in with your BC ID at the top right corner.
Japanese-American Internment Camps
Click on the link below to see the books we have on those topics. Below the link, you'll find specific books that might be useful for your assignment. To find the books in the library, write down the call number and follow the instructions in the box on the bottom left. Some of these books will say "available online," which means you can access them as ebooks instead of checking out a physical copy.
Japanese-American Internment During World War II by Call Number: D769.8.A6 B43 2013ISBN: 9780780813335Publication Date: 2013-11-13
Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites by Call Number: D769.8.A6 C57 2002ISBN: 9780295981567Publication Date: 2003-12-01Also available as an eBook!
Citizen Internees: A Second Look at Race and Citizenship in Japanese American Internment Camps by Call Number: D769.8.A6 I89 2017ISBN: 9781440837005Publication Date: 2017-03-27
The Battle for Los Angeles: Racial Ideology and World War II by Call Number: F869.L89 A2535 2006ISBN: 9780826340474Publication Date: 2006-09-01look in index for Japanese-Americans
Altered Lives, Enduring Community: Japanese Americans Remember Their World War II Incarceration by ISBN: 0295983809Publication Date: 2004-03-01
Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family by ISBN: 0295806532Publication Date: 2015-03-31
Finding Books on the Library Shelf
Call Number= the address of the book on its spine
The signs on the end of the bookcases only refer to first two lines of a call #.
Pay attention to "collection" on the book entry in the catalog:
REFERENCE= Green-labeled bookcases
GENERAL= White-labeled bookcases
Once in correct aisle, read call number, matching one line at a time, until find the right book. Browse the shelves around it for possibly more books on your topic.
The U.S. Prison System
Click on the links below to see the books we have on those topics. Below the links, you'll find specific books that might be useful for your assignment. To find the books in the library, write down the call number and follow the instructions in the box on the bottom left. Some of these books will say "available online," which means you can access them as ebooks instead of checking out a physical copy.
Captive Genders: trans embodiment and the prison industrial complex by Call Number: HQ77.9 .C36 2015ISBN: 9781849352345Publication Date: 2015-10-27
Convicting the Innocent: death row and America's broken system of justice by Call Number: HV8699.U5 C64 2016ISBN: 9781632206466Publication Date: 2016-04-05
Humane Health Care for Prisoners by Call Number: HV8833 .F35 2017ISBN: 9781440855504Publication Date: 2017-05-05
Prison Food in America by Call Number: HV8847 .C36 2017ISBN: 9781442253476Publication Date: 2016-12-08
Parental Incarceration and the Family by Call Number: HV8886.U5 A73 2012ISBN: 9780814705124Publication Date: 2012-05-28
Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration by Call Number: HV8925 .P58 2007ISBN: 9781595581679Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Punishment for Sale: private prisons, big business, and the incarceration binge by Call Number: HV9469 .S45 2010ISBN: 9781442201736Publication Date: 2010-01-16
Why American Prisons Fail by Call Number: HV9471 .P39 2016ISBN: 9781611635188Publication Date: 2015-12-28
Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor by Call Number: HV9471 .W36 2003ISBN: 0415935377Publication Date: 2003-01-10
From Deportation to Prison by Call Number: JV6483 .M265 2016ISBN: 9781479804665Publication Date: 2016-10-11
Unequal under Law: Race in the War on Drugs by Call Number: KF4755 .P76 2007ISBN: 9780226684628Publication Date: 2007-10-01
Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal by Call Number: KF9300.N38 2018ISBN: 9780465093793Publication Date: 2018-12-31
The Failed Promise of Sentencing Reform by Call Number: KF9685 .O324 2017ISBN: 9781440840876Publication Date: 2017-03-20
From Education to Incarceration: Dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline by Call Number: LB3012.2 .F76 2014ISBN: 9781433123238Publication Date: 2014-05-02
The School to Prison Pipeline: The Role of Culture and Discipline in School by ISBN: 9781785601293Publication Date: 2017-03-03
The Prison-Industrial Complex and the Global Economy by ISBN: 1604862416Publication Date: 2009-09-01Bodies in Beds: Why Business Should Stay Out of Prisons by
ISBN: 1628942665Publication Date: 2017-04-15
Prison Systems Outside the U.S.
Click on the links below to see the books we have on those topics. Below the links, you'll find specific books that might be useful for your assignment. To find the books in the library, write down the call number and follow the instructions in the box on the bottom left. Some of these books will say "available online," which means you can access them as ebooks instead of checking out a physical copy.
Prisons 2000: an international perspective on the current state and future of imprisonment by Call Number: HV8705 .P75 1996ISBN: 0312160968Publication Date: 1996-06-01
Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis by ISBN: 9780820344119Publication Date: 2012-12-01
Cultures of Confinement: A History of the Prison in Africa, Asia, and Latin America by ISBN: 9780801446306Publication Date: 2007-05-01
Mass Incarceration
Click on the links below to see the books we have on those topics. Below the links, you'll find specific books that might be useful for your assignment. To find the books in the library, write down the call number and follow the instructions in the box on the bottom left. Some of these books will say "available online," which means you can access them as ebooks instead of checking out a physical copy.
Slavery by Another Name: the re-enslavement of black people in America from the Civil War to World War II by Call Number: E185.2 .B545 2008ISBN: 9780385506250Publication Date: 2008-03-25
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Call Number: E185.86 .T373 2016ISBN: 9781608465620Publication Date: 2016-02-23
Capital Punishment in America: Race and the Death Penalty Over Time by Call Number: HV8699.U5 U734 2012ISBN: 9781593324452Publication Date: 2012-04-01
A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America by Call Number: HV8705 .D78 2011ISBN: 9781595584977Publication Date: 2011-08-30Deals with illness in prisons, mostly.
After Life Imprisonment: reentry in the era of mass incarceration by Call Number: HV9304 .L54 2016ISBN: 9781479806928Publication Date: 2016-09-20
A Country Called Prison by Call Number: HV9466 .L66 2015ISBN: 9780190211035Publication Date: 2015-07-01
The Growth of Incarceration in the United States by Call Number: HV9471 .G76 2014ISBN: 9780309298018Publication Date: 2014-05-24
Locked In: the true causes of mass incarceration--and how to achieve real reform by Call Number: HV9471 .P449 2017ISBN: 9780465096916Publication Date: 2017-02-07
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: the making of mass incarceration in America by Call Number: HV9950 .H56 2016ISBN: 9780674737235Publication Date: 2016-05-02
Imprisoning America: The Social Effects of Mass Incarceration by ISBN: 0871546523Publication Date: 2004-05-20
