Library & Learning Resources - The School of Culinary Arts, Tourism & Hospitality

The Reynolds Libraries

The Reynolds Libraries serve students on campus and online.

The library staff has created the Culinary Arts & Hospitality Management Guide to facilitate your research and learning. The guide lists selected books in our collections, subject keywords for searching our catalog and the call number ranges for browsing the shelves. It also includes information on how to retrieve or search electronic books through NetLibrary. Perhaps what you will find the most valuable is the list of databases that can help you locate research articles. Guides to online search strategies are linked, as well as recommended web sites. The Guide is available at http://teach.jsr.vccs.edu/library/subjectguide/culinary.htm.

The Library at the Downtown Campus is located in Room 231, and houses print media to support culinary arts, hospitality and tourism education. In addition to a variety of professional textbooks, there are numerous general interest volumes on cuisine and cooking, and a variety of relevant periodicals.

Check out the JSRCC Library Blog! Here you will find the latest news on library resources, services, events, and happenings as well as other news items of interest to the JSRCC community.

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Web Sites of Interest to Culinary Arts & Hospitality Management Students

Albert Uster Imports -The best worldwide ingredients for the pastry kitchen.

American Egg Board

The American Lamb Board

American Dietetic Association-This is the premier organization for nutrition research and dietetic professionals.

Baking 911-baking tips and recipes for all skill levels.

Breeds of Poultry

Cheese Information-a listing of several kinds of cheese.

The Cook's Thesaurus-a cooking encyclopedia that covers thousands of ingredients and kitchen tools.

Epicurious - recipes and everything about food.

Escoffier On Line - Culinary Web Resources, Culinary Education and Scholarship Info and Culinary Career Center for the professional culinary community.

FDA Bad Bug Book

Food Network - the lifestyle website

Hospitality Lawyer

International Cake Exploration Societé (ICES)-Great source of creative ideas for classic and contemporary cakes.

Iowa Pork Producers

Joy of Baking - recipes and tips for bakers.

My Food Pyramid

National Beef Council

National Pork Producers Council

North American Meat Processors Association

Pastry Chef Central-Pastry supplies and ingredients

Poultry Science Association

Produce Packing Guidelines

Retail Bakers Association-Useful info and newsletter

Smartbrief -This link will allow you to sign up Smartbrief, an industry email newsletter. This is full of useful information about the restaurant industry.

United States Department of Agriculture

USDA Food Safety Information Center- information to protect the safety of your guests.

Virginia Department of Health

What's Cooking in America

Resource Web Sites

American FactFinder from US Census Bureau - US Census Bureau database for population, housing, economic, and geographic data.

Books Online from Bartleby - Searchable database for full-text reference, verse, fiction, and nonfiction classics.

Electronic Book Resource Compendium - Extensive listing of text sites including arts, humanities, foreign languages, religion, social sciences, natural sciences and information technology.

FedStats - Statistics from over 100 US Federal agencies. Including national, state, county, and local statistical profiles.

FindArticles - Free access to millions of articles from thousands of top publications.

Free Magazine Portal - Search engine for articles from online magazines.

Glossarist - A database of content-specific dictionaries and glossaries.

Internet Public Library - over 18,000 titles, including online texts, serials, newspapers, and reference materials that can be browsed by subject, author, or by Dewey Decimal Classification.

Library of Congress Home Page - Searchable online database of holdings, full-text legislative information, the National Digital Library, and more.

LibrarySpot - Links to digital libraries, searchable databases, reference materials and online periodicals.

LibWeb - 7500 pages from libraries in over 135 countries. Updated daily.

OneLook Dictionaries - Search engine for words and phrases. More than 5 million words in more than 900 online dictionaries are indexed by the OneLook® search engine.

Project Gutenberg - Full-text copies of selected books.

Refdesk - Reference Desk for the online community. An extensive collection of links to current web-based resources.

Statistical Abstracts of the US - Online version of the National Data Book published by the US Census Bureau.

Statistical Resources on the Web - Directory of links to statistical resources on the web, including agriculture, business & industry, cost of living, demographics, economics, energy, foreign economics, foreign trade, health, housing, labor, military, science, sociology, and weather.

Switchboard - Find persons or businesses using name, phone number, address, or postal code.

YourDictionary - Free online dictionary and thesaurus with definitions, thesaurus, audio pronunciation, grammar usage, online translator, abbreviations, language study, and specialty dictionary needs.

ZIP Code Lookup - US Postal Service site offering lookup engines for Zip+4 Codes and City/State/Zip Code associations.

J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College
School of Culinary Arts, Tourism & Hospitality
Downtown Campus | 700 E. Jackson Street | Richmond, Virginia 23219
voice: 804.523.5069 | facsimile: 804.786.5465 | hospitality@reynolds.edu