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Welcome! What are your majors? What library resources especially interest you? We will have time to cover at the end.

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  USC theses/dissertations published since Fall 2006 are stored in full-text, PDF format on the USC Libraries Digital Archives site.

  For citations, abstracts, and full-texts of USC theses/dissertations published since 1932, search ProQuest.

  Hardcopies of all theses/dissertations published before Fall 2006 are located in the Grand Library and can be found by searching the Homer catalog.

  Search the USC Digital Archive   Search ProQuest

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  http://www.usc.edu/schools/GraduateSchool/current_thesis_dissert.html

  http://libguides.usc.edu/dissertations ◦  http://libguides.usc.edu/content.php?

pid=13618&sid=164377 ◦  Library contacts for thesis and dissertation upload

issues: Mr. Wayne Shoaf, Head of Technical Services: shoaf@usc.edu or Mr. John Jackson, Technical Services: johnjack@usc.edu

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  Victorian Popular Culture Portal   Testaments to the Holocaust (British source)   Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences   Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures   Underground and Independent Comics,

Comix and Graphic Novels!

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  Holocaust and Genocide Studies Collection (DML basement)

  Peters Collection (papers of an American missionary in Korea)

  ONE Institute now officially part of USC Libraries (on Adams St.)

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