Subject & Course Guides

Subject Guide for Literature

• Finding Articles
• Finding Authoritative Web Sites
• Finding Books, Videos, DVDs, & CDs
• Finding Online Books
• Finding Literary Criticism - Print Collection

FINDING ARTICLES

FINDING AUTHORITATIVE WEB SITES

Alvernia Library’s Internet Reference Library

The Internet Reference Library has a list of selected Literature Web sites. The Internet Reference Library can be accessed through the Selected Websites link under Our Resources on the Library homepage.

Alvernia Library Research Guides

The Research Guides page, listed under How to on the  Library homepage, links to sources for finding and evaluating information sources.

FINDING BOOKS, VIDEOS, DVDS, & CDS

WorldCat 179 million records

This Online Union Catalog lists holdings from libraries across the world. Searches can be conducted across all libraries or limited to the Alvernia Library collection. Searches can also be limited to specific types of documents such as books, visual materials and Internet resources. (dates of coverage: 2100 B.C. – present)

Requesting a book from this collection only takes a minute. Click on the Borrow this item from another library link. Submit the form with your Alvernia ID number and allow two weeks for delivery of the requested book.

Alvernia's Catalog

Alvernia's Catalog is the best tool for finding items in Alvernia Library's collection. You can search for books, audiobooks, books in the Best Seller collection, audio-visual materials (videos, DVD's and CD's), course reserves, and journals in our print collection. Item records indicate if the item is available. Students, faculty and staff with an Alvernia ID card can place a hold on items that are currently in circulation.

The Dewey Decimal System is used to classify books in theAlvernia Library. Books on Literature are located in the 800’s.

Examples of books with background information on literature are listed below:

Dictionary of Literay Influences: The Twentieth Century, 1914-2000 R028.9 D554 2004

English Language, Literature, and Composition: Current Knowledge Study Guide R370.76 E58 2001

Modern Literary Theory R801.95 M689 2001

Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850 R700.4145 E56 2004

Timetables of World Literature R809 K96 2003

Magill's Literary Annual Books (1977 - present) 809.04 M194

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature R809 O98 2006

Reference Guide to World Literature R809 R332 2003

Encyclopedia of World Writers: 19th and 20th Centuries R809.04 E56 2003

Critical Survey of Drama R809.2 C934 2003

European Writers R809.894 E89

HarperCollins Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature R810.9 H293 2002

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of American Writers R810.9 M571 2001

Cyclopedia of Literary Characters R809.927 C995 1998

American Writers R810.9 A512

Hispanic Literature of the United States: A Comprehensive Reference R810.98 K16 2003

Essential Guide to Children's Books R810.99 E78 2002

The Best American Short Stories, 2004: Selected from U.S. and Canadian Magazines R813.508 B561 2004

British Writers R820.9 B862

Oxford Companion to English Literature R820.9 O98 2000

World Writer's in English R820.9 W927 2004

A Companion to Shakespeare's Works R822.33 C737 2003

The Greenwood Companion to Shakespeare : A Comprehensive Guide for Students 822.33 G816 2005

Contemporary Authors R928 C761

 

FINDING ONLINE BOOKS

NetLibrary eBooks

A collection of 12,000 eBooks is now accessible from NetLibrary. eBooks are full text electronic versions that can be borrowed and returned over the Internet.

Bartleby

Access to the full-text works of reference, verse, fiction and non-fiction.

FINDING LITERARY CRITICISM - Print  and Electronic Collection

Franco Library owns several hundred volumes of Gale Literary books which are indexed electronically by the Gale Literary Index.  The Gale Literary Index points to books which contain biographical and criticism articles. Check the table below for items available in the Franco Library.

A cumulative print index can also be found in the last volume of each series.

For Literary Criticism on:	Gale Literary Series	Library Print	Location
Authors now living or who died after December 31, 1959	Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC)	V 1 - 282	R809 C761
Authors who died between 1900 and 1959	Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (TCLC)	V 1 - 231	R809 T971
Authors who died between 1800 and 1899	Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism (NCLC)	V 1 - 39	R809.04 N714
Authors who died between 1400 and 1799	Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 (LC)	V 1 - 22	R809.03 L761
	Shakespearean Criticism (SC)	V 1 - 127	R822.33 S527
Black writers of the past two hundred years	Black Literature Criticism (BLC)	V 1 -  3	R809.8896 B627
For Author Information
	Contemporary Authors (CA) electronic version Contemporary Authors	V 1 - 288	R928 C761a
	Contemporary Authors New Revision Series (CANR) electronic version Contemporary Authors	V 1 - 196	R928 C761n
	Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB)	V 1 - 244	R813.54 A512 R928 D554
	Something About the Author	V 1 -132	R 809.89 S696

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