SEARCH STRATEGY HINTS Remember to search for your author and primary source as a subject in the online catalog. IDENTIFICATION MATERIALS Oxford Companions - brief identification of authors, literary works, literary societies, terms, proper names, etc. Reader's Encyclopedia (Benet) - brief identification of authors, titles, characters, literary terms, etc. (R803 B435) BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS Wilson Author Series American Authors, 1600-1900 (R928.1 Kun) British Authors Before 1800 (R928.2 Kun) British Authors of the Nineteenth Century (R928.2 Kun) European Authors, 1000-1900 (R928 Kun) Twentieth Century Authors (R928 Kun) Twentieth Century Authors First Supplement (R928 Kun Suppl 1) World Authors, 1950-1970 (R928 Wor) World Authors, 1970-1975 (R928 Wor) Dictionary of American Biography - scholarly and thorough biographies of Americans who died before 1965 (R920 Am35) Notable American Women - scholarly biographies covering the years 1607-1975; supplements the DAB (920.72 N843) Dictionary of American Negro Biography - supplements DAB and NAW; scholarly biographies of important African-Americans who died before Jan. 1, 1970 (R920 DIC) Black Writers - scholarly biographical information, especially about contemporary African-American writers (R809.8896 B627) Hispanic Writers - scholarly biographical information, especially about contemporary Hispanic writers (R809.04 H673) Dictionary of Biographical Quotation - a compilation of quotations about deceased British and Americans made by themselves and others (R920 Dic) CRITICAL MATERIALS Contemporary Literary Criticism - excerpts from criticism of the works of today's novelists, poets, playwrights, and other creative writers; covers those who are either now living, or who have died since January 1, 1960 (R809.04 Twe) Twentieth Century Literary Criticism - excerpts of criticism of writers who died from 1900 to 1960 (R809.04 Twe) Literature Criticism 1400 to 1800 - excerpts from published criticism on authors who died between 1400 to 1800; includes criticism from the fifteenth through twentieth centuries (R 809 Lit) Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism - excerpts from criticism of the works of nineteenth writers, from the first published appraisals to current evaluations (R809.034 Nin) University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Authors (920 no______ AAS) Columbia Essays on Modern Writers (823.912 Woo z) Contemporary Writers in Christian Perspective (shelved at the beginning of the 809's) Twayne series (821.912 British authors), (813.52 American authors) and 861.1 world authors) Remember: The Library has the Twayne British and American Author Series on CD-ROM. Book Review Digest - a digest and index of book reviews in about 75 British and American periodicals (R015 B723) BIBLIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS Reader's Advisor - annotated guide to the whole field of literature and to individual writers (R010 R227) Blacks in America : Bibliographical Essays - a combination of narrative, interpretation and bibliography in chronological and topical framework (R016.301 Mc) The American Novel (2 vols.) - criticism written in the 20th century on novels written from 1789-1968 (R016.813 G235) Great Writers of the English Language (14 vols. -820.9 G786) INDEXES Cathedral Library System (CLS) Remember you can search our online catalog by keyword, author/title, author, title, subject, series, added entry and call number. Since the database contains the catalogs of all the libraries on the Close, be sure and note the location code for any materials that you wish to check out. CD-ROM DATABASES American Authors - Contains the complete text of 143 Twayne Literary Criticism books about American's major authors. Biographical and literary criticism are included. American authors also lists 100,00 bibliographical additional author references. British Authors - Contains the complete text of 145 Twayne Literary Criticism books about Great Britain 's major authors. Biographical and literary criticism are included as well as approximately 100,000 additional, bibliographical citations. Scribner Writers CD - Available by clicking on "Shortcut to Launcher", this CD provides full-text material on a variety of classic authors. Please note: You must take notes since there are no options to print pages. VERTICAL FILE MATERIALS Author's File - Contains clippings and pamphlets on various authors; located in three file cabinet drawers by Ms. Misch's desk. Materials may be checked out for three days. Please do not pull the entire folder out, only the contents. ELECTRONIC INFORMATION RESOURCES Electronic Libraries - By using the NCS Library homepage, you can search all of the local academic and public libraries via the Internet. Most of these libraries allow you to use their materials on site. INTERNET SITES The following Internet sites may be helpful to you for biographical and critical information: Authors - http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/authors.html ...a literary site with pointers to individual guides or other cumulative documents that deal with specific writers Bookwire - http://www.bookwire.com ...a site of book reviews links to other good sites, full texts of classics, and much more Carnegie Mellon English Server - http://english- server.hss.cmu.edu/ ...an extensive bibliography of links to humanities-related sites Complete Works of Shakespeare - Literary Index - http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/english/flackcj/LitIndex.html ...an overview and review of the major collection of websites of interest to scholars, students, and lovers of literature LitLinks - http://www.valberta.ca/~english/litlinks.htm ...a comprehensive database of links to literary topics on the Net McRel: Language Arts Resources and Standards - http://www.mcrel.org/connect/language.html ...a good list of links with educational standards in this subject area included Paradigm Online Writing Assistant - http://www.idbsu.edu/english/cguilfor/paradigm/... a great site for secondary school students looking for help in how to write an essay, editing their drafts, and documenting their sources Stanford Humanities Review - http://shr.stanford.edu/shreview/index.html... electronic version of the respected publications
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