Rudman Issues in Children's Literature Collection

How to Locate Books in the Rudman Collection Using Discovery Search (the search box on the Libraries homepage)

Each book in the collection has the following author entry:

Masha Kabakow Rudman Issues in Children's Literature Collection

 

If you do a search putting that long name in the author field (including quotation marks at the beginning and end), you will get all of the books in the collection. There are over 8,600 books in the collection.

 

Each book in the Rudman collection has the Rudman-created subject headings (codes). Each one starts with Rudman Collection and then the subject. If you find a book that has a subject heading that you want to see all the other books with the same subject, you can click on that subject and you will get all of them. Like this example: Rudman Collection -- Heritage, North America -- African American.

 

The one exception to all of the above is in the case of the three special authors featured in the Collection (Joseph Bruchac, Jacqueline Woodson, and Jane Yolen). The works of these three are located at the end of the Collection and can be readily identified by the LAVENDER call number label. The specialized cataloging schedule described above is not used for these authors; rather they are organized by surname and the first word(s) of the work's title (e.g., <Bruchac When the> for Joseph Bruchac's When the Chenoo Howls).

While the online catalog can be a powerful tool in discovering the breadth and depth of the Rudman Collection, ultimately it works best when combined with focused browsing of the Collection in person.

All of the books in both parts of the collection can be found in the Library's online catalog under the work's author, title, series, subject, and call number, combined with the AUTHOR SEARCH in Discovery Search under the entry "Masha Kabakow Rudman Issues in Children's Literature Collection" [with quotation marks].

If you want to find a book on one of the subcategory headings in the Hierarchical Codes list, use NU and the Hierarchical Code followed by an asterisk as follows:

NU OPP slv* (displays books from the Slavery subcategory of Oppression & Resistance).