HIST 32 - Women & U.S. Culture: Educated Women

Like the reference section in the library, use Credo Reference database for background information, broad overviews and summaries.

This online version contains nearly 4 million full-text entries in subjects from Art to Technology for your research, paper writing and studying needs. Credo also brings the facts alive with images, sound files, animations, videos and much more. Use similar search strategies as you would with our online catalog and databases.  

Use REFERENCE BOOKS for background information, broad overviews and summaries.

Reference books cannot be checked out from the library but may be photocopied.

Sample Reference Titles

Finding titles that relate to your topic, can be done in the Catalog section on the Library Homepage.

Example of  Words / Phrases Searches:

• Educated Women
• Society of Women Engineers
• Marian Wright Edelman
• Drew Gilpin Faust

Las Positas and Chabot Libraries have a large collection of ebooks available for you to use.

Ebook titles will show up in the Library Catalog

To access these books when off campus, log in with your W# and Library Password.

• Your Library Password is the SAME as your CLASS-Web PIN.
• If you don't know your PIN, go to the college's CLASS-Web page, type in your W#, and select "Forgot PIN?".
• Whenever you change your CLASS-Web PIN, it will also automatically update your library password (it may take up to 30 minutes before the password change is reflected for library services).