IR 428 Library WorkshopOctober 15, 2012

Librarian: Mira Foster

Welcome! Please sit with your commodity group!

Welcome to the (Information) Farmers Market!

Agenda

1. Walk the vendor aisles (introduction)2. Visit the artisanal/handcrafted/local booth

(library catalog & databases)3. Smell, sample, shop (work in groups)4. Try some Fair Trade Coffee

(UN Sources: FAO Stats)5. Decide what ingredients you still need for

Sunday dinner (Libguide +class discussion)

International Political Economy of Food & Hunger

International Relations

International Business

Environmental Studies

Sample Commodity: BANANAS

• Search terms:– Banana* = “banana or bananas or bananananas”– Banana* AND trade ≠ “going bananas!”

Recommended Databases

EBSCOhost• Academic Search Complete

(everything, lots of full text)• Business Source Complete

(Business, trade, scholars)• Environment Complete

(Science, economics policy)• Econlit

(Good citations for wonks)

Proquest• ABI/Inform Complete

(business news + scholarship)• OxResearch

(briefings from Oxford Scholars)• Worldwide Political Science

Abstracts (scholarly sources for the International Relations crowd)

Option: Search Multiple Databases

Additional Database: Passport GMID

• From Euromonitor International• Reports for countries and consumers on…– Food prices– Tariffs etc.– Fresh food and packaged food industries

• Statistics!– Customize and download tables on food prices,

exports, imports and trade balances

FAO Statistical Yearbook

http://www.fao.org/economic/worldbananaforum/wbf-aboutus/en/

One last thing: “Go to Costco!”

• http://library.sfsu.edu:8008/

Help is Available

• International Relations (IR) Librarian: Mira Foster, mira@sfsu.edu

• IM from the Libguide: mirasfsu• Phone: (415) 405-2590• Office Hours: Mon. to Thurs. 9-5pm.

Contact Mira for an appointment.

Misc image credits

• http://www.mass.gov/agr/massgrown/farmers_markets.htm

• http://www.cuesa.org/markets• http://www.ethicurean.com/wp-content/uplo

ads/2006/11/uw-farmers-market.jpg