Asian American Contributions to Champaign County
OPTION 1:
Reference and Other Library Books
Use the following call numbers to find books of interest. Remember that these call numbers will help you in the school library, at any University Library, and at Urbana Free Library and Champaign Public.
306s - Culture and Institutions (You may want to look in the Reference section for Countries and Their Cultures 306.03 C832)
903s - Geography and History Dictionaries and Encyclopedias (You may want to look in the Reference section for Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations 903 J959 2004 and Encyclopedia of the World's Nations and Cultures Q. 903 K965c 2007)
909s - World History
950s - General History of Asia, Far East
OPTION 2:
Newspapers
For this topic, newspapers are likely to be good sources of information. Just be aware that back issues of local papers are not generally available online. However, a trip to the Urbana Free Library Archives or the University Library's History, Philosophy, and Newspaper Library is well worth the effort! See details and links below.
Uni High Library: We keep the previous 10 issues of the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette. The following two databases will get you to older issues. Use your NetID and password to access them from home.
NewsBank Newspapers
This service includes both contemporary and historical databases. Click on Illinois to search for articles from the News Gazette and other small-town Illinois papers back to 1997. Click on Chicago Tribune to search the Tribune back to 1985.
Chicago Tribune, 1849 - 1985
Use this database to get to articles prior to 1986.
Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection
This UIUC project has currently fully digitized the Daily Illini (1916-1925) and the Daily Urbana Courier (1916-1925). To conduct an advanced search, click on More search options next to the search box.
LexisNexis
Use this database to search newspaper articles.
Public library holdings: Search the catalogs of the libraries that are in the Lincoln Trail Libraries System to find out what's available locally. Here's the trick: do a keyword search on “newspapers” and the name of the city or county you are interested in. You will find that the most comprehensive public library newspaper collection in the area is in the Urbana Free Library Archives department. The index is now online!
Newspaper Library (University of Illinois Library): The University of Illinois History, Philosophy, and Newspaper Library is a great resource for this project. They hold tens of thousands of reels of microfilm and subscribe to almost 500 current newspapers. From the search page, type in your city and select Illinois as your state.
Try searching keywords such as:
Library Books
Books about Champaign County are on reserve in the library.
Web Sites on Illinois History
Champaign County Historical Archives
For projects on local immigration, consider taking a trip to the Urbana Free Library to look at their archives. Search and browse the index here.