Tommy Nixon
Humanities Reference Librarian
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Introduction to Library Research

Citing Information Tutorial

This Library of Congress classification system holds true for any library in the world using the LC system. For example, Spanish language dictionaries will be classed between PC4001-PC4977; Spanish literature will be in the call number range PQ6001-PQ8929, with literature of Spanish America within that, PQ7081-PQ8560.

Use this Map to find books in Davis Reference.

Use this Location Guide to find books in Davis.

How Do I? Cite Sources? Conduct a Literature Review, etc.?

Can't find the article, book, or report you need at our library? You can request it from another library through interlibrary loan.

Off-campus access is limited to UNC faculty, students, and staff.

 Example of an academic journal article (click on the View Page Image icon to view)

MLA International Bibliography
MLA is the principal index for literary criticism (books, book chapters, scholarly articles, dissertations, etc.) for all literatures except Classical Greek and Roman. Indexing from 1926 - present.

Literature Resource Center
LRC contains the text of the Dictionary of Literary Biography, as well as selected critical excerpts or full text articles from various Gale criticism sets. It is possbile in LRC to search for authors individually or to search for "Authors by Type," limiting by period, movement, nationality, etc. The Dictionary of Literary Biography provides bio-critical articles on authors. The ongoing print version of the DLB (Davis Reference Row 3 PS21 .D5185 1978 - To Date) provides much excellent illustrative material not available in the electronic version

HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index)
Not limited to just literary journals, HAPI indexes a variety of subject areas. Indexing from 1970 - present.

Handbook of Latin American Studies
Indexes Latin American topics in the humanities and social sciences, 1935 - present.

Latin American Newsstand
Latin American Newsstand provides full-text content in Spanish and Portuguese from 41 newspapers from Puerto Rico and 11 Latin American countries, including Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. The complete articles are available in ASCII format. Key newspaper titles include El Universal, Mexico City's largest-selling newspaper; O Globo (Brazil); La Nacion (Argentina); and El Mercurio (Chile). Three business titles, El Economista (Mexico), Valor Economico (Brazil), and Portafolio (Colombia) are also important resources for researchers.

 Example of an academic book (at least the catalog record for one)

Subject searching for books in the Library's catalog is often best done by beginning with a Keyword Search . Start with a Keyword Search and identify one or more relevant books. Then look at the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) given in the Full Records of those titles. You can follow the subject heading links in the catalog to find similar books, or you can use the terms in the subject headings to revise your search strategies.

Keyword Search: spanish english dictionaries

Search by LC Subject Heading: Spanish language--Dictionaries--English.

Keyword Search: latin american fiction women

Search by LC Subject Heading: Latin American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

Keyword Search: cervantes encyclopedias

Search by LC Subject Heading: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616--Encyclopedias.

Keyword Search: spanish literature dictionairies

Search by LC Subject Heading: Spanish literature--Dictionaries.

Search for books By a literary author as an Author search; search for books About a literary author as a Subject search.

Author: Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635.

Subject: Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635.

The concise Oxford Spanish dictionary [electronic resource] : English-Spanish, Spanish-English. Chief editors Carol Styles Carvajal, Jane Horwood. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Although this is the "concise" Oxofrd, it is available electronically.

Collins Spanish dictionary. [editors, Jeremy Butterfield ... [et al.]]. Glasgow, Great Britain ;New York, NY : HarperCollins, 2005.
Davis Reference Desk PC4640 .C595 2005

Diccionario de uso del español. 2 vols. María Moliner. Madrid : Gredos, c2007.
Davis Reference PC4625 .M6 2007

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