Background Information for Class Presentations
It Is a Matter of Class and Is It My Border or Your Border?
A Concise Glossary of Cultural Theory. Peter Brooker.
Ref. HM101 .B775 1999
A Dictionary of the Social Sciences. Julius Gould.
Ref. H41 .G6
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. 26 vols.
Try looking for articles on class; try the index for the term boundaries.
Ref. H41 .I58 2001
Keywords : A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. Raymond Williams.
Ref. PE1580 .W58
Machos y Mujeres
Encyclopedia of Women and Gender. 2 vols.
Ref. [q] HQ1115 .E43 2001
Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women : Global Women's
Issues and Knowledge. 4 vols.
Ref. [q.] HQ1115 .R69 2000
It's Hot. It's Salsa and Merengue
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Volume 2: South America, Mexico, Central America & the Caribbean.
Ref. [q.] ML100 .G16 1998 vol. 2
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 20 vols.
Ref. ML100 .N48 and on the Web.
For all:
Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. 5 vols.
Ref. [q.] F1406 .E53 1996
Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature.
Ref. [q.] PQ7081.A1 E56 1997
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Finding Books
To find items owned by the library, search LUCIA. Try a Subject begins with search, for example, social conflict or social classes. LUCIA will list other subject headings (and subheadings) which may be of interest. For advanced research you should consult the Library of Congress Subject Headings, or LCSH, a guide to the terms commonly used in catalogs like ours. The LCSH can be found on top of the Ready Reference shelves behind the reference desk on the first floor of the library.
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, like Latin America, by searching with quotation marks around the phrase, as in "latin america". You can search for individual terms connected by logical operators like AND or OR, for example, class and chile. 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 women and "latin america*". LUCIA will search for the records containing the word women and then look within all the records containing that word for records that contain phrases like latin america: latin america, latin american, latin americans, etc. 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 that organizes materials by general subjects. Once you have a call number from searching LUCIA, see this guide to call number locations at Mudd 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.
Biography Index. 1946-1994.
Reference Indexes
Contemporary Authors.
Provides complete biographical and bibliographical references for more than 90,000 authors in the U.S. and around 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, i.e. allende isabel. Browse through the subject headings to find the subheading which corresponds to your specific interests. Be alert when searching non-western names or names of rulers, 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, i.e. menchu rigoberta. 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:
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. Use the Go or Back button on your browser after exiting EBSCOhost to leave the system.
Expanded Academic ASAP.
Broad coverage of academic periodicals. Includes full text of some articles.
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 and America: History and Life.
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.
Humanities Index.
An index to articles, reviews, and original works in the Arts and Humanities.
Reference Indexes 1974-1994
MLA International Bibliography. 1963-
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.
Once you have a citation for an article on your topic, 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 fulltext 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 most widely used sources for information on the humanities and literatures.
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 this bibliography on Evaluation of Information Sources. You can often learn a lot about a page (and a site) by parsing the URL.
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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 Hispanic Issues
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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