Ithaca High School AP Spanish
http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/apsp.html
Developing a Search Strategy
Using a search strategy makes it easier to find information quickly and efficiently.
 The Seven Steps of the Research Process:
- Choose your topic
- Find background information
- Find books on your topic
- Find periodical articles
- Find networked resources or relevant Web sites
- Evaluate your sources
- Cite your sources
For more information about library research strategy and using library resources, go to Research Strategy: A tutorial -- an online, hypertext guide to library research that is a part of Library Gateway Help.
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Use reference books to find background information on the writer you are reading and studying. The articles in reference books often list additional books and articles selected to provide further information and other perspectives.
Print Sources
Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature.
Verity Smith, editor.
Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997.
Olin Library Reference PQ 7081 .A1 E56x 1997 +
Entries on writers, works, and topics relating to the literature
of Latin America, including survey articles on individual countries. Each
entry consists of a signed critical overview of the writer's literary work
written by an expert in the field; a brief biographical sketch, a select list
of the writer's works, a list of further reading, and in some cases, one or
more essays on individual literary works.
Handbook of Latin American Literature.
Edited by David William Foster.
New York: Garland, 1992.
Olin Library Reference PQ 7081 .A1 H23 1992
Concise information on a particular author, work, or literary tradition of Latin America. For general readers.
Latin American Writers.
Carlos A. Solé, editor in chief, Maria Isabel Abreu,
associate editor.
New York: Scribner, 1989.
Uris Library Reference PQ 7081 .A1 L37 1989
A collection of excellent bio-critical essays on Latin American writers by scholars from the U.S., Latin America, and Europe. It includes over 176 chroniclers, novelists, poets,
journalists, and playwrights from the 16th century to the present in a 3-volume
set. Entries are arranged chronologically by writer's date of birth.
Modern Latin American Literature.
compiled and edited by David William Foster, Virginia Ramos Foster
New York: Ungar, 1975.
Olin Library Reference PQ 7081 .F752
Uris Library Reference PQ 7081 .F75 1975
Critical portraits of 137 important writers. Each entry includes selections from critical essays (many translated into English for the first time), along with a full
citation of the original essay (for further reading if the user is interested).
Modern Spanish & Portuguese Literatures.
Compiled and edited by Marshall J. Schneider and Irwin Stern.
New York: Ungar, 1987.
Uris Library Reference PQ 6072 .M69
Olin Library Stacks PQ 6072 .M69
Provides critical
portraits of important Spanish and Portuguese writers. Each entry includes
selections from critical essays (many translated into English for the first
time), along with a full citation of the original essay (for further reading
if the user is interested).
Spanish Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Source Book.
edited by Linda Gould Levine, Ellen Engelson Marson, and Gloria
Feiman Waldman
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1993
Olin Library Reference PQ 6055 .S73
Each entry includes a biography, major themes, survey of criticism, bibliography of the author's works, and suggestions for further reading.
Contemporary Authors, use Literature Resource Center
Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Detroit: Gale Research, 1978- .
Uris Library Reference [shelved on the index tables] PS 129 .D55 +
Also available online as part of the Literature Resource Center
Provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
Contemporary Literary Criticism
Detroit: Gale Research, 1973- .
Uris Library Reference [shelved on the index tables] PN 771 .C762
Also available online as part of the Literature Resource Center
Contemporary Literary Criticism is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary
authors. Each CLC entry contains a biographical/critical introduction,
listing of principal works and sources for further study.
Networked Resources
Literature Resource Center
[Restricted to Cornell]
Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group.
A complete literature database combining biographical, bibliographical, and contextual information on authors and their works. Draws from Gale Group's core literary databases,
including Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography,
and Contemporary Literary Criticism. Provides additional search capability
for Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature and Gale Literary
Index.
Literature Online (LION)
[Restricted to Cornell]
Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey
A full-text collection of poetry, drama, and prose with complementary reference sources. Although the texts are primarily English and North American literature, the reference books and literary criticism cover Latin American literature extensively.
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- About
the CU Library Catalog
The Cornell University Library Catalog includes the holdings of 20
Cornell University libraries. The catalog contains records for books, computer
files, government documents, manuscripts and archives, maps, musical scores,
periodicals, serials, sound recordings, and visual materials.
- CU
Library Catalog Help Pages
Library of Congress Classification outline
Library of Congress Subject Headings
The Cornell University Library uses Library of Congress subject headings
as the standard for subject searching. Unlike searching by keyword, where
any term or wording of a topic can be entered into the computer, subject searching
requires you to use the exact wording of an official Library of Congress
subject heading in order to retrieve search results.
Subject
Headings for this class include:
Bombal, Maria Luisa
Borges, Jorge Luis
Cortazar, Julio
Fuentes, Carlos
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
Matute, Ana Maria
Quiroga, Horacio
Rulfo, Juan
Finding Individual Short Stories published in anthologies and collections
Short Story Index.
New York: H. W. Wilson, 1923- .
print version: Olin Library Reference Z 5917 .S5 C77 and supplements
Short Story Index Electronic Edition is the electronic version of the standard reference work Short Story Index. It is an index to short stories written in or translated into English that have appeared in collections and selected periodicals. The periodicals are those indexed in Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature and Humanities Index. The print version began in 1923 and was published annually with five-year cumulations.
Finding Literary Criticism
Finding Criticism of Individual Short Stories
Twentieth-Century Short Story Explication: Interpretations, 1900-1975, of Short Fiction Since 1800.
3rd ed. Hamden: Shoe String, 1977. Plus numerous supplements that index stories from 1976-1988 and the New Series covering 1989- .
(Uris Library Reference Z 5917 .S5 W18 and Z 5917 .S5 W812; partial set in Olin Reference)
An indispensable source for finding criticism of individual short stories published in magazines, journals, and elsewhere. Coverage begins with a large volume that covers 1900-1975. Individual supplemental volumes cover the succeeding years. The most recent volumes index two years of criticism.
Finding Criticism in Periodical Indexes
Periodical indexes and abstracts are resources that identify and locate articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers. Increasingly, these indexes are available as online databases
that provide access to the full text of the articles.
Find it!/Databases
provides access to about 500 of the most used online indexes and abstracts, almanacs, catalogs,
dictionaries, directories, and encyclopedias. Entries for these resources
provide descriptive information, dates of coverage, and links to the databases.
You can find databases in your areas of interest by either searching by title
or keyword or browsing through the subject menus.
All of the resources in Find it!/Databases can also be found in and accessed through the Cornell Library Catalog.
MLA Bibliography. (Modern Language Association) [Restricted to Cornell]
MLA bibliography
is the largest and most comprehensive database covering scholarship in the modern
languages, linguistics, literature, folklore, and drama, including film, opera,
radio, television and theater. Literary criticism and literary theory are covered
extensively. Approximately 4,000 journals and series are screened, and entries
for books are included. Entries appear both for collections of essays and for
their contents.
Academic Search Premier. [Restricted to Cornell]
A general periodical database that provides citations and abstracts for articles from over 4,100 journals and includes full text from over 3,170 journals. You can limit your search to peer-reviewed articles (scholarly articles).
HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index).[Restricted to Cornell]
Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, University of California.
Contains
authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico,
the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region and Hispanics in
the United States. From analyses of current political, economic, and social
issues to unique coverage of Latin American arts and letters, HAPI Online contains
complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original
literary works and other materials appearing in more than 500 key social science
and humanities journals published throughout the world. Many citations are linked
to full-text.
ProQuest Research Library
[Restricted to Cornell]
Research Library indexes and abstracts thousands of periodicals, covering general interest magazines and scholarly journals in the social sciences, humanities and sciences. Full text of many articles is provided. You can limit your search to peer-reviewed articles (scholarly articles).
Evaluating the
sources you find is a crucial step in the process of library research. The
questions you ask about books, periodical articles, web pages, or multimedia sources
are similar whether you're looking at a citation to the item or have the item
in hand.
How
to Critically Analyze Information Sources
Lists some of the critical questions you should ask when you consider the
appropriateness of a particular book, article, media resource, or Web site
for your research.
Distinguishing
Scholarly from Non-Scholarly Periodicals: A Checklist of Criteria
Shows how to evaluate periodicals by looking at their format, intended audience,
and appearance.
Evaluating
Web Resources
Lists ways to analyze the Web sites you find.
Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Sites
Offers a table of suggestions.
How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography
MLA citation style
(Modern Language Association)
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (6th ed.)
Olin and Uris Libraries Z 253 .M68 2003
(shelved behind the Reference Desks)
MLA citation style (CUL Gateway Help pages)
Research and Reference Help
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