Finding EBooks
Search for ebooks 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. To make sure you are only looking at books you can read online, go to the left side bar and choose the "Available Online" option in the Availability box.
For the best results, sign in with your BC ID at the top right corner.
For a more specific search, click on one of the following links to find searches on those topics.
Books on Migrant Agricultural Laborers
To find these 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.
American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California by Call Number: HB1985.C2 G74 1989ISBN: 0195044231Publication Date: 1989-10-19
Working Poor: Farmworkers in the United States by Call Number: HD1525 .G75 1995ISBN: 1566392381Publication Date: 1995-02-10
The New Rural Poverty: Agriculture & Immigration in California by Call Number: HD1525 .M235 2006ISBN: 0877667292Publication Date: 2006-02-01
California and the Dust Bowl Migration by Call Number: HD1527 .C2 S76 1973ISBN: 083716267XPublication Date: 1973-02-24
Chasing the Harvest by Call Number: HD1527.C2 C43 2017ISBN: 9781786632210Publication Date: 2017-05-16Bitter Harvest: A History of California Farmworkers, 1870-1941 by
Call Number: HD1527.C2 D34ISBN: 0801412846Publication Date: 1981-05-01
The Farmworkers' Journey by Call Number: HD1527.C2 L67 2007ISBN: 0520250729Publication Date: 2007-06-05
Grounds for Dreaming by Call Number: HD6515.A29 F56 2016ISBN: 9780300196962Publication Date: 2016-01-05Long Road to Delano by
Call Number: HD6515.A292 U58 1975ISBN: 0717804232Publication Date: 1974-01-01
Why Immigrants Come to America: Braceros, Indocumentados, and the Migra by Call Number: HD8081.M6 S76 2008ISBN: 9780313348303Publication Date: 2007-11-30
Voices from the Fields by Call Number: HV741 .V65 1993ISBN: 9780316056335Publication Date: 1993-06-01
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States by ISBN: 9780520275140Publication Date: 2013-05-25
Books on Farm Labor Activism
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.
Trampling Out the Vintage by Call Number: HD6509.C48 B3 2011ISBN: 9781844677184Publication Date: 2011-10-24
Cesar Chavez and the Common Sense of Nonviolence by Call Number: HD6509.C48 O76 2008ISBN: 9780826343758Publication Date: 2008-04-16
A Dolores Huerta Reader by Call Number: HD6509.H84 D65 2008ISBN: 9780826345134Publication Date: 2008-12-16
Farmers' and Farm Workers' Movements by Call Number: HD6515 .A29 M66 1994ISBN: 080573869XPublication Date: 1994-11-01
Cannery Women, Cannery Lives by Call Number: HD6515 .F72 U547 1987ISBN: 0826309887Publication Date: 1987-08-01
Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California farm worker Movement by Call Number: HD6515.A29 G36 2009ISBN: 9780195162011Publication Date: 2009-05-28
The Politics of Insurgency: The Farm Worker Movement in the 1960s by Call Number: HD6515.A292 C34 1985ISBN: 0231056923Publication Date: 1985-09-01
Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers Movement by Call Number: HD6515.A292 U543 2011ISBN: 9780313386503Publication Date: 2011-05-26
The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, & Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement by Call Number: HD6515.A292 U546 2009ISBN: 9781596914605Publication Date: 2009-10-13
Philip Vera Cruz by Call Number: HD6515.A292 U547 2000ISBN: 9780295979847Publication Date: 2000-01-01
Dark Sweat, White Gold by Call Number: HD8039 .C662 U68 1994ISBN: 0520084896Publication Date: 1994-12-08
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.