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 The Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature is a reference guide to recently published articles in periodical magazines and scholarly journals, organized by article subject periodicalmagazinesjournals  It is an index for the entire year  This format has since been complemented with an online version which is marketed to libraries.

Readers’ Guide to periodical literature is useful:  For finding information on current events.  Current events generally can not be found in books.  For finding up-to-date information about people.

 There are two types of entries in the Readers’ Guide to periodical literature: subject entries and name entries.

 A name entry may have articles written by the person and/or articles written about the person.

 A subject entry may have a see reference and/or a see also reference. If you find one or both of these, it means that you can look up those terms in the same book you’re using and find additional information.

This article is by Bill Clinton  CLINTON, BILL,  Why I’m going to Beijing, il por Newsweek v131 no26 p28 Je  about  Undone deal. R. Satoff, The New Republic v219 no18 p12-13 N This article is about Bill Clinton

AUTO RACING see Automobile racing AUTOMOBILE RACING Anybody’s game [1998 season]T. Swan. Il Popular Science v235 no3 p81+ S 1998 SEE REFERENCE The subject heading for articles on this topic is Automobile racing. SUBJECT HEADING This article is about Automobile racing. RACING See also Automobile racing SEE ALSO REFERENCE This reference leads you to related or more specific subject headings.

AUTOMOBILE RACING Anybody’s game [1998 season] T. Swan. Il Popular Science v253 no3 p81+ S 1998 Title of magazine Date of magazine Page number

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 Check list to be sure library has the magazine.  Fill out magazine request slip completely.  Give slip to one of the librarians.  Wait for librarian to give you the magazine.  You will not get the slip back.

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