Orange County Collection
LangsonLibrary
Basement Level

UCI Government Information Collection Descriptions: (Basement Langson Library)
Orange County Collection

• Collection started in 1970
• Material issued 1996  to present in ANTPAC
• Selected pre-1996 material in ANTPAC
• Type of material collected
  • Budgets
  • General plans
  • Environmental impact reports for city and county projects
  • Specific plans for developed areas
  • Transportation corridor documents
  • Tustin Marine Base Administrative Record (behind the LL Reference Desk)
  • Planning documents for a commercial airport at El Toro
  • Bolsa Chica documents
  • Southern California Coastal Conservancy Wetlands collection
  • Southern California Association Governments
  • Upper Newport Bay - San Diego Creek
  • Aliso Creek
  • Crime statistics and jail plans
  • Statistical surveys
  • Business reports and forecasts
  • Aerial photos

Orange County and California Subject Guides Library Home page http://www.lib.uci.edu/

• Subject Guides
  • Orange County
    • Selected webpages
      • County website  http://www.oc.ca.gov/
  • California
    • Agency Index under Quick Hits on the State Homepage
      • http://www.ca.gov/state/portal/myca_homepage.jsp

How to find Orange County Documents using  ANTPAC

• Search by keyword using the keywords in a project, geographic and city name
• After finding a suitable publications use the subject headings listed for further searching
• Only 45 % of the OC material can be found in ANTPAC.
• Pre-1996 material can be researched in a card catalog which is not in a public area.
• Ask for assistance with locating material in the collection and using the card catalog at the Reference Desk on the 1st floor of the Langson Library.
• Significant publications
  • Orange County Progress Report  F 868 O6 O7 Latest at LL Reference Desk
  • Real Estate and  Construction Report  HD 266 C22 L63 LL Reference Collection
  • Marc Baldassare's Orange County Annual Survey,1982 to 2004 http://data.lib.uci.edu/ocs/ and
    in paper 1982-1999 LL Orange County Collection HN 79 C22 O77
  • Chapman University Economic and Business Review  HC 107 C22 O61   LL Reference Collection

 Newspapers  in Langson Current Periodical Room

• NewsBank Access World News – United States  provides access to many small city newspapers. Search for this database in the E-Resources Locator from  the UCI Libraries home page. Click on a state and then choose the newspaper for the geographic area of your research.
• Los Angeles Times
  • Until spring of 2001 there was an Orange County Section, now Orange County information is blended into the California section
  • 1881-1984 Proquest Historical Newspapers, provides fulltext searching of scanned pages
  • 1985- present  Proquest Newspapers, provides indexing  and fulltext 
  • LexisNexis Academic – News,  must choose LAT from “Sources” list in order to search 1985- present; provides indexing and fulltext
  • Web versions also available through the  News and Newspapers  Subject Guide section of the Library's home page.
  • Current issues in paper for 3 months in Langson Library's Current Periodical Room on the 2nd floor
  • Issues older than three months are on microfilm since 1881 in the microforms section of the Current Periodical Room
  • http://www.latimes.com/
• Orange County Register
  • Separate "Local Section" for county news,  continuously reports on ongoing issues
  • 1987-present  NewsBank Access World News – Greater Los Angeles, provides indexing and fulltext
  • Web version also available through the  News and Newspapers Subject Guide section of the Library's home page.
  • Current issues in paper for 3 months in the Langson Library's (LL) Current Periodical Room on the 2nd floor
  • Issues older than three months are on microfilm since 1906 in the microfilm section of the LL Current Periodical Room
  • http://www.ocregister.com/
• Irvine World News
  • Weekly news paper 1970-August 2001; available on Microfilm M000067 in LL Current Periodical Room
  • Since August 2001 issued with the Thursday Orange County Register and microfilmed with the Orange County Register
  • http://www.irvineworldnews.com/- provides fulltext searching since September 2000
• Daily Pilot (Orange Coast Daily Pilot)
  • Community paper for Costa Mesa and Newport
  • Current issue in paper for 3 months in Langson Library's Current Periodical Room on the 2nd floor
  • Issues older than three months are on microfilm since 1968 in the microforms section of the LL Current Periodical Room
  • http://www.dailypilot.com/news -  provides recent indexing

Statistical databases with Orange County information

• Counting California  created by the California Digital Library combines state and federal statistics
• Rand California is another very good database for California statistics
• State of California publications
  • Statistical abstract http://www.dof.ca.gov/html/fs_data/stat-abs/toc.htm
  • Criminal justice statistics http://caag.state.ca.us/cjsc/datatabs.htm
  • Taxable sales http://www.boe.ca.gov/news/tsalescont.htm 
  • Health Data Summaries for California Counties  H987 H41 200 ML Ref Desk CA Section
  • Demographic - California Department of Finance Demographic Research Unit http://www.dof.ca.gov/html/Demograp/druhpar.htm
• Federal Government
  • Census Bureau http://www.census.gov/
  • American Factfinder http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/BasicFactsServlet
  • Stat USA  (business and economics) ((access through ANTPAC or Library Homepage Online Resources)
  • Uniform Crime Reports  http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm

Further research on Orange County

• Special Collections
• Southeast Asian Archive
• City and county websites, look for planning departments, source State and Local Government on the Net   http://www.statelocalgov.net/
• Orange County Archives, Phill Brigandi, 714-834-2536, http://www.ocgov.com/recorder/archives/ArchMain.asp
• Public libraries
• Historical societies for cities and counties
  • Orange County Historical Society  http://www.orangecountyhistory.org/index.html   
• Public or private organizations or societies connected with a project
• Specialized collections of material, possibly not located in a library

Locating Maps

• USGS topographic maps for the western states; arranged by state and topo name in map cases in the Map and Atlas Area on the first floor of the Langson Library
• Aerial photo atlases in the Map and Atlas Area on the 1st floor of the LangsonLibrary
• Thomas Bros. city maps for Southern California at the Reference Desk on the 1st floor of the Langson Library
• GIS
  • The Library participates in a campuswide ESRI license
  • ArcGIS software is available in the Multimedia Resource Center as well as in the Social Ecology Lab
  • Compatible GIS data is available in the library
  • UCI Libraries GIS and maps webpage

Access

• Orange County GI material is located in Basement of the Langson Library
• It does not circulate, but copies can be made.
• Librarians at the Langson Library can assist you in locating material on your topic. If they cannot answer your questions they will contact me, or you can contact me directly by e-mail or phone.

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