Bibliographies and General Guides To Research
Guide to Reference Works for the Study of the Spanish Language and Literature and Spanish American Literature.
Ref. Z2695.A2 W66 1997
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Introductory and Background Information
Titles are listed in order by call number.
Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. 6 vols.
Covers approximately 1350-1600's CE
Ref. [q.] CB361 .E52 1999
Dictionary of the Middle Ages. 13 vols.
Covers approximately 500-1500 CE
Ref. [q.] D114 .D5 1982
Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World. 6 vols.
Ref. [q.] D209 .E97 2004
Europe since 1945: An Encyclopedia. 2 vols.
Ref. [q.] D1051 .E873 2001
Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Empire, 1402-1975.
Ref. DP56 .H57 1992
Historical Dictionary of Modern Spain, 1700-1988.
Ref. DP192 .H57 1990
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture.
Ref. DP233.5 .E63 1999
Also available online
Spanish Culture and Society: The Essential Glossary.
DP233.5 .S73 2002
The Ancient Americans: A Reference Guide to the Art, Culture, and History of Pre-Columbian North and South America. 2 vols.
Ref. [q.] E59.P42 S3613 2001
Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. 5 vols.
Ref. [q.] F1406 .E53 1996
Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women's Issues and Knowledge. 4 vols.
Ref. [q.] HQ1115 .R69 2000
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 29 vols.
Ref. ML 100 .N48 2001
Also available online
The Dictionary of Art. 34 vols.
Ref. N31 .D5 1996
Diccionario de Historia de España
Ref. P56 .D5 1979
Dictionary of the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula. 2 vols.
Ref. PN849.S6 D54 1993
Critical Survey of Drama. Frank N. Magill, ed. 8 vols.
Ref. [q.] PN1625 .C68 2003 v. 1-8
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama. 5 vols.
Ref. [q.] PN1625 .M3 1984
Encyclopedia of European Cinema.
Ref. [q.] PN1993.5.E8 E53 1995
Magill's Cinema Annual. 1982-
Ref. PN1993.45 .M35
The Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature. 1977
Ref. PQ6006 .O93
Diccionario Oxford de Literatura Española e Hispanoamericana.
Ref. PQ6006 .O9518 1984.
Diccionario de Escritores Hispanoamericanos: Del siglo XVI al siglo XX.
Ref. PQ7081.3 .A39 2002
Diccionario de Autores Iberoamericanos.
Ref. PQ7081.3 .D5 1982
Online:
Britannica Online
The electronic version of the classic reference work. You can either search for terms or browse the alphabetical list of entries. View the entries from the Encyclopaedia Britannica rather than the Britannica Student Encyclopedia, as the latter is written for elementary and high school students.
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture.
Literature Resource Center.
Use the Author search or the Advanced search. The title search doesn't always find everything you might want to see. In addition to biographical information, includes material from Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism and more.
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
A number of reference sources in the DE 5 call number range address the history of the classical world. You may also find the research guide for History 650: The Practice of History--Secondary Sources to be helpful for historical background.
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Finding Books
To find items owned by the library, search LUCIA. Try a Subject begins with search, for example,
- spain
- spain--history
- spain--social life and customs
- spanish literature
To find biographical books about a certain person, search in LUCIA for the person using the Subject begins with search option, with the last name first for standard western names, for example, garcía lorca, federico. If an author is best known for works published under a pseudonym, use the pseudonym rather than the author's birth name. For names of royalty or religious names, you may need to try searching by given name rather than what appears to be the surname.
To combine terms for a different kind of search, try Keyword Anywhere. LUCIA will look for the terms you specify anywhere in the important areas of the cataloging records, and display a list of those records. Try a search for a phrase by searching with quotation marks around the phrase, as in "spanish armada". You can search for individual terms connected by logical operators like AND or OR. You might want to try searching for some of the terms you find in the LCSH. You can also search for multiple forms of words by using an asterisk; try a search like this one for spain and cultur*. LUCIA will search for the records containing the word spain and then look within all the records containing that word for records that contain words starting with cultur: culture, cultures, cultura, cultural, culturas, and so forth. You can target your search even more effectively by telling LUCIA to look for the terms in the subject area of the records; compare the Keyword Anywhere search with the Subject Keyword search. The Subject Keyword gives you the flexibility of a keyword search with the access to content provided by subject headings. With the Guided Search you can combine Keyword Anywhere searches with Subject Keyword searches.
Books are arranged on the library's shelves by Library of Congress Classification. This is a system which organizes materials by general subjects. Once you have a call number from searching LUCIA, see this guide to call number locations at Mudd and the library floor maps to find out where a book might be on the shelves.
Search LUCIA for materials in our library; try WorldCat to find materials beyond the Mudd. Make sure you've thoroughly searched our library before going to WorldCat. See a reference librarian if you need help.
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Biographical Information
Biography and Genealogy Master
Index.
"A comprehensive index to nearly 12 million biographical sketches in more than 2700 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world." Available electronically for Lawrence campus researchers.
To find biographical books about a certain person, search in LUCIA for the person using the Subject begins with search option, with the last name first for standard western names. Browse through the subject headings to find the subheading which corresponds to your specific interests. Be alert when searching names of rulers or religious persons, like juan de la cruz, as you may need to use varying forms of these names. Many times, LUCIA has cross-references for these.
For autobiographical books by and about a certain person, search in LUCIA for persons as Author. Be sure to consult the library's guide on Biographical Information for further ideas and information.
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Finding Articles
The best index to use will depend on your topic. Be sure to check the Electronic Resources page for other options. Two of our resources, JSTOR and Project MUSE provide complete full text. Some of our indexes include:
Art Abstracts.
Covers articles from art periodicals.
EBSCOhost.
Follow the link for EBSCOhost Web. EBSCOhost provides a single Web source for multiple databases; you might want to select the Academic Search Elite. Contains broad and specialized coverage of academic and general periodicals.
Handbook of Latin American Studies.
Begun in 1935, in 1964 it was divided into two volumes, one covering the social sciences and one the humanities, including literary studies. A Web-based version of future volumes of the
Handbook is available from the Library of Congress; see this page for details on dates and content.
Ref. Z1605 .H23
Historical Abstracts
The essential indexes to the scholarly literature of history, in books and
proceedings as well as journals. Includes short summaries of the works indexed.
Historical Abstracts includes citations of articles on African, Asian,
Latin American and European history. Beginning in 1971 the paper version was
divided into Modern History Abstracts and Twentieth Century Abstracts. Since
1964 America: History and Life provides corresponding access to
literature on the United States and Canada.
LexisNexis Academic
Current news and full-text periodicals. Includes international publications.
MLA International Bibliography.
A leading source for the field of literary studies. Wide ranging index to just about anything of a scholarly nature related to literature and language.
Newslink
Links to thousands of news sites (papers, radio, television) worldwide. You might want to go directly to the list of newspapers from Spain.
Once you have a citation for an article on your topic, try the 
button to see if that particular article is available. If you don't find it, look in LUCIA for the title of the journal or newspaper to see if the library owns it. You should also search
BESS, an
automated search of the library's full text databases, for electronic copies of articles.
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Web Resources
Internet Resources for Spanish
From the librarians.
Lawrence University: Spanish Department
News and information from your professors.
Voice of the Shuttle
One of the leading web pages for research in the humanities.
Of course, there are many more web resources available that might be useful in your research. You might want to try looking at sources that select the best of the Web, like these:
It's important to think carefully about any information you find in any format, and to evaluate resources for their accuracy, applicability, and so forth. Evaluation of web resources is especially important. You may want to consult this guide to Evaluating Internet Resources, or the library's Web Wise Guide to Searching. You can often learn a lot about a page (and a site) by parsing the URL.Top
Style Manuals
Academic Citation and Writing
Style manuals of the humanities, physical sciences, and the social sciences in the Seeley G. Mudd Library.
Citing Electronic Documents
This page provides guidance on citing electronic documents and links to
other guides, some on specific styles of documentation.
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.
The guide for any academic papers written in the literatures and languages.
RRef. LB2369 .G53 2003
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About Research in Spanish Literature
Material related to the topic of this course will be drawn from many fields besides literature; be prepared to look at materials from history, international relations, political science, religious studies, and cultural studies, just to name a few. In addition to consulting catalogs and indexes, be sure to look at bibliographies supplied at the end of relevant articles, chapters, and books, and to search library catalogs for book-length bibliographies.
Your sources must be fully documented in any written work you produce. It may help to look at the information on style before you start your research, so that you will have all the required documentation at hand when you need it. Then as you write, go back to the resources on style for details on the exact format of your citations.
The sources listed in this guide were chosen for the broad coverage they provide. Direct links are provided to Internet resources and searchable databases, as well as links to LUCIA, the library's online catalog. Be sure to check the library's Electronic Resources page regularly to see new databases and indexes; some of these will only be available to users on the Lawrence campus. Also, you may want to take a look at guides on related topics from the Library Research Guides page.
Evaluating the resources you find is an essential part of the research process. See this guide to hints on evaluation of books and articles and this guide to evaluating Internet resources.
As always, if you have any questions be sure to ask a Reference Librarian.
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Definitions of terms and abbreviations:
Ref. = Reference collection, first floor
RRef.= Ready reference, shelves behind the reference desk
Periodicals = Level A
GovDoc = U.S. Government Documents, second floor
Reference Indexes = Alphabetically arranged at the end of the reference collection
Microform Area = Reading room east of the reference desk, near microform drawers
q. = Oversized books: interfiled in reference and M class scores; at end of classes in other collections
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