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Library Instruction for
English 2060
American Authors
Electronic Resources:
Genie
An online public access catalog from which you can access Northwestern’s book holdings as well as book holdings for other university libraries around the state. Genie may be searched by author, title, key word or Library of Congress subject heading. Approximately 60% of Northwestern’s holdings are represented in this catalog including all holdings 1995-Present. For material older than 1995, also consult the card catalog.
LOUIS Databases
A group of indices to periodical literature available to all libraries in the LOUIS consortium. These databases may also be searched by author, title, key word or Library of Congress subject heading.
MLA - Modern Language Association International Bibliography
1963-August 1997READ - Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature
1983-July 1997
IAC Searchbank
A group of indices to periodical and newspaper literature in a variety of fields of study. This database includes full text of some of the articles indexed. In IAC it is possible to search using the subject guide or a key word. Try both methods using the terms below and note the differences in your results and how they are presented.
MLA Bibliography on Silverplatter
This is a different version of the same index which is part of the LOUIS database. It contains information from 1963-1996 and uses the Silverplatter search engine.
Paper Resources
| Book Reviews | |
|---|---|
| Book Review Digest | Z 1219 .C95 Ref. |
| Book Review Index | Z 1035 .A1 B6 Ref. |
| Author Information | |
|---|---|
| American Writers | PS 128 .A546 Ref. |
| American Women Writers | PS 147 .A42 Ref. |
| Contemporary Authors | PN 771 .C6 Ref. |
| Dictionary of Literary Biography | PN 501 .D5 Ref. |
| Oxford Companion to American Literature | PS 21 .H3 Ref. |
| Something About the Author | PN 451 .S6 Ref. |
| Criticism | |
|---|---|
| Contemporary Literary Criticism | PN 771 .C59 Ref. |
| Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism | PN 761 .N56 Ref. |
| Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism | PN 771 .G27 Ref. |
| Paper Indices | |
|---|---|
| The Card Catalog | Reference Room |
| Essay and General Literature Index | Index Table 6A |
| Humanities Index | Index Table 6B |
| MLA Bibliography | Index Table 6A |
| Play Index | Index Table 5B |
| Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature | Index Table 1B |
| Short Story Index | Index Table 5B |
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