Good for brainstorming paper topics, especially for narrowing too-broad topics
The Mindmap contains follow-able links
Offers citation support (will generate the reference for your References / Works Cited page)
Look on the upper right on essays/articles for the quote icon
The Reference Room is on the 1st floor of the Whittemore Library
Located in the back left next to the Reference Desk and the two printer stations
Contains hundreds of authoritative encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, atlases and more
Locate Reference titles using our catalog (must limit by location to FSU only)
A Reference book's call number will have Ref added to it
Reference books do not circulate; must stay in the library
A Photocopier is available next to the printers outside the Reference Room
The Reference Room is also the Silent Study Room - no noise allowed
FSU's Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Service
FSU students can receive from other libraries, at no cost to themselves, books that are NOT available at FSU or available from the Minuteman Library Network
Covers issues in both historical and contemporary context, with information on race and ethnicity and their impact on crime and the administration of justice.
THIS TITLE AVAILABLE UNTIL JUNE 15, 2020.
A comprehensive history of the death penalty in the United States, documenting over four-hundred years of dramatic changes in the ways capital punishment has been administered and experienced.
THIS TITLE AVAILABLE UNTIL JUNE 15, 2020.
Analysis of the reasons why the death penalty remains active in most states, in spite of well-documented flaws in the justice system.
THIS TITLE AVAILABLE UNTIL JUNE 30, 2020.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) collects data on persons held under sentence of death and persons executed during the calendar year from the state department of corrections and the Federal Bureau of Prisons.