Look for books in the Five College Library Catalog. Ask or look for signs for call number locations.
Ebooks from EBL, JSTOR, ebrary and others are in the catalog and Discover. Links to Google Books help you check the contents of printed books. For example, search "permanency" or "standards" in Child welfare for the twenty-first century: a handbook of practices, policies, and programs.
Use the Request Item button in the catalog to request books from the other Five Colleges.
No luck? Try looking in WorldCat under the same subjects. Use Interlibrary Loan to request books not in the Five Colleges. Allow at least two weeks for materials coming by mail.
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Search by title for books cited in background readings. Then try keyword searches, for example adoption and child* and foster and united states
or ( "foster children" or "foster care" or "foster home care" ) and ( standards or evaluation or cost* or financ*)
Ask for help with Library of Congress Subject Headings such as these:
