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Selected Web Sites
- The Justice Information Center
- Information on crime, justice, and courts.
- http://www.ncjrs.org/
- Web Sites of Interest to Social Workers
- An extensive list of websites relating to social work
- http://www.socialworker.com/websites.htm
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ETSU Departmental Web Sites
- Department of Social Work
- Includes information about the BSW and MSW, faculty, department news,
and links to websites related to social work.
- http://www.etsu.edu/socialwork/index.htm
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Selected Bibliography
- Encyclopedia of social work and Supplement to the Encyclopedia of social work..
- New York, National Association of Social Workers.
- SHERROD Books HV35 .S6
- SHERROD Reference Room (No Loan) HV35 .S6
- ETSU KINGSPORT Reference (No Loan) HV35 .S6.
- The Social work dictionary.
- Barker, Robert L.
- Washington, D.C.: National Association of Social Workers, NASW Press, c1995.
- SHERROD Reference Room (No Loan) HV12 .B37 1995
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