GEOGRAPHY 1A EXTENDED: ICE AGE

 

The research topic is: Critically overview the role played by ice ages (past, present and future) in global climate change

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NEED HELP? ASK-A-LIBRARIAN SUBJECT LIBRARIAN HELP GENERAL LIBRARIANS' HELP REFERENCE RESOURCES Make use of Reference works RESERVE COLLECTION BOOKS JOURNALS ARTICLES

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NEED HELP? ASK-A-LIBRARIAN

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If you need help with your assignments and research projects you can receive the following help in the library:

 

SUBJECT LIBRARIAN HELP

 

Pavlinka Kovatcheva

E-mail: pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za   

Tel: 011 559-2621

Office: Level 1, next to the Reference Collection   

 

CONSULTING HOURS:

 

Monday: 10.30 - 12.00h     14.00 - 16.00h 

Tuesday:  9.30 - 12.00h     14.00 - 16.00h

Thursday:9.30 - 12.00h     14.00 - 16.00h 

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GENERAL LIBRARIANS' HELP

 

Help is also provided by the librarians at the Info Point Desk (Library entrance foyer) from 7.00 - 10.00h and the Librarians at the Roving desk (Level 1, next to the Reference Collection) from 8.00 - 18.00h. The Library is also open on Saturday from 8.30 - 15.00h. Check the Library website for more on opening Library Hours.

 

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REFERENCE RESOURCES

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Make use of Reference works

 

Make use of the available Dictionaries and Encyclopedias (print & electronic).

• Dictionaries help you to define your keywords
• Encyclopedias help you to get on an overview of your topic and provide more information than a dictionary

 

Key Online Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

 

Do you know how to CREATE A PIN for access to the Library resources? Forgot your Password (PIN)? Ask the Lending Desk staff (Library Foyer) or phone them on: 011 559-2165. 

 

• AccessScience
• Encyclopedia of Energy
• Oxford Reference Online

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RESERVE COLLECTION BOOKS

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Search the Course Reserve to find BOOKS or other materials, that are placed on RESERVE for your course. You can search either per Lecturer or Course. These books are available at the Short Loan Collection, to use for 2h in the library.

 

• Climate change in prehistory : the end of the reign of chaos / William James Burroughs. Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press, 2005. (Shelf number AA05 BURR)
• Climate, Present, Past and Future. Lamb, H. Methuen, 1977. (Shelf number AA05 LAMB)
• Earth's climate : past and future / William F. Ruddiman. New York : W.H. Freeman, c2001. (Shelf number AA05 RUDD)
• The Great Ice Age : climate change and life / R.C.L. Wilson, S.A. Drury, and J.L. Chapman.London : Routledge, 2000. (Shelf number AA05 WILS)
• The Little Ice Age : how climate made history, 1300-1850 / Brian Fagan. New York : Basic Books, c2000. (Shelf number AA05 FAGA)

 

For additional books search the UJ LINK (Library Catalogue) or books on Level 2, shelf number AA05.

 

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JOURNALS ARTICLES

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Some articles examples for your assignment:

 

• Goldsmith, D. 2007. Ice Cycles. Natural History, 116(2):14-18 (EbscoHost)
• Nunn, P. 2007. The A.D. 1300 event in the Pacific Basin. Geographical Review, 97(1):1-23.
• Shanon L. C., et all. Out of Africa and into an ice age: On the role of global climate change in the late Pleisocenemigration of early modern humans out of Africa. Journal of Human Evolution, 56(2): 139-151 (ScienceDirect)

 

Search these full-text electronic databases for more articles.

 

• Academic Search Premier (EbscoHost)
• ScienceDirect

 

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