NRPI/PCSI 109R Library Research Guide
This is a guide to HSU Library resources on Calfornia North Coast natural hazards. For additional guidance contact Robert Sathrum, Natural Resources Librarian.
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Guides to Key Resources
- Northwestern California/Klamath Bioregion: Environment Information Sources
- California Environment Information Sources
Finding Books
Books, reports prepared by government agencies and other similar works are listed in the Library Catalog. Most locally focused materials are housed in the Humboldt Room on the third floor of the Library. The materials in this room are library use only. The catalog will note if there are additional copies located in the regular bookstacks which can be checked out.
To find works on local natural hazards enter a search that uses a combination of subject and geographic terms. Use the following example as the pattern to search the subjects floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, wildfires, forest fires, storms or climate. The only exception is that the subject climate works best as a keyword search humboldt county climate.
Finding Newspaper, Magazine and Journal Articles
Use QuickSearch Articles and other discipline specific databases listed under Articles and Databases to find articles appearing in newspapers, magazines, and journals. The following sources focus on local information.
- Humboldt County News Online Lists local newspapers, including those that have online archives
- California Newspapers Contains daily fulltext of approximately 50 California newspapers.
- Humboldt County Pamphlet Collection This connects to a list of subjects used for filing materials in this collection of materials in the Humboldt Room . This collection consists of 1) newspaper articles selectively clipped from local newspapers with coverage back to the 1940's; and 2) pamphlets, reports and other ephemera produced by local organizations and government agencies.
- Susie
Baker Fountain Papers 128 volume clipping file and collection of materials
on northwestern California activities and history covering the period
from settlement through 1960. The print volumes are located outside the
Humboldt Room. There
is a brief
index plus a more detailed microfiche index available.
Finding Maps
Finding Photographs
- Humboldt Room Photograph Collections. Index to local historical photos, some of which are online and some located in the Humboldt Room
- Calisphere Statewide collection of historical photographs and historical texts.
Finding Internet Resources
- Intute: Natural Hazards
- Resources on Tsunamis (University of Washington Fisheries-Oceanography Library) Emphasis is on the northwestern United States.