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Davey Café Open for Business
The Davey Café has reopened for the 2008-2009 school year. Stop by!..[More]
Posted Tue, August 26 2008

New Lobby Exhibit of Chinese Christian Center Materials
The new library lobby exhibit features photographs, newspaper clippings, and newsletters related to the Center...[More]
Posted Mon, August 11 2008

Book Club to discuss The Golden Compass
The next faculty/staff book club discussion will feature The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman...[More]
Posted Wed, July 23 2008

Book Club to Discuss Angle of Repose
The next book club discussion will take place on July 16 in the Library Community Room...[More]
Posted Wed, July 02 2008

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Resources for Pacific Seminar II

Librarian: Scott Minor

Shaping Our Energy Future

Reference Books

The library has a number of reference books of potential use for research in this area. For example:

Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia
REF Q121 .V3 2002: Basic definitions and explanations for scientific terms and principles.
Macmillan Encyclopedia of Energy
REF TJ163.28 .M33 2001: Technical issues, timelines and other energy topics.
Encyclopedia of American Public Policy
REF JK468.P64 J33 1999: Political concepts , areas of domestic political activity and important areas of public policy making.

Books

In PacifiCat, try a keyword search on petroleum AND _________(your topics)
OR energy policy AND

Some topics words could include:

engineering
industry
politics
economics

Articles

In addition to Academic Search Complete, try the following:

Business Source Premier(EBSCO): oil consumption and world economics
Sociological Abstracts (CSA): Americans and their automobiles
ScienceDirect (Elsevier): environmental impact or energy production

Reliable Websites

Web sources you can trust!

Petroleum Reserves:
Overview of U.S. petroleum reserves, including the Strategic Petroleum. From the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy.
NETL: Technologies: Oil and Natural Gas Supply:
This government site focuses on innovative and ecologically sensitive methods to explore for and recover oil and natural gas. From the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), U.S. Department of Energy.
California Energy Commission: Alternative Fuel Vehicles (AFVs) and High-Efficiency Vehicles
Fact sheets, reports, and other documents about California alternative fuel vehicle programs and alternative transportation fuels such as biodiesel, ethanol, compressed natural gas, and hydrogen.