Locating Print Resources

We have recently begun to interfile all our reference materials with our regular books. Once all REF materials have been moved, they will be on the back shelves. Meanwhile, check both areas or ask for help if you cannot locate the book you need. Log onto the library catalog and search for:

• the author of your book
• the title of your book
• "literary criticism"
• literary
• the genre - poetry, novel, etc.

It's a good idea to conduct all the searches because you will get different results from each. When you search for "literary criticism" you will get some materials that are specific to an author or a work, but you also will get more general materials. You will need to know the genre and the time period to choose the correct literary critiques. Here is just a sampling of what you can expect to find.

Conversations with John Steinbeck	803 STE
Literary Criticism	809 JAM
Cyclopedia of Literary Characters	809 CYC
Literature and Its Times	809 LIT
Masterplots	809 MAS
Modern Black Writers	809 MO
Understanding The Yearling	813 KEE
Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	813.4 STE
Readings on the Sonnets	821 REA
Samuel Beckett	848 SAM
Contemporary Literary Criticism V. 1: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Today's Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, and Other Creative Writers	809 CON V. 1
Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism: Volume 19	809 NIN V. 19
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism	809 TWE V. 10
For help locating articles in the GALE Literary Criticism books, go to http://www.galenet.com/servlet/LitIndex

Databases

Pick up a copy of "Biblioteca Las Americas Digital Resources" at the reference desk for home access codes and passwords.

For literary criticism, try:

• Gale InfoTrac - search Literature Resource Center, Scribner Writers Series, and Twayne Authors Series databases.
• ProQuest - elibrary, ProQuest Learning: Literature, or ProQuest Online.

 Citation Guides

Handouts on APA and MLA format are located on the shelf by the computers.

Reference books - We have recently begun to interfile all our reference materials with our regular books. Once all REF materials have been moved, they will be on the back shelves. Meanwhile, check both areas or ask for help if you cannot locate the book you need. The due date is the same for reference books as any other.

http://www.noodletools.com - Passwords are available at the library.