Unas Personas Importantes

Library Resources

Carolina Day School

 

 

 

General Biographical Information

 

Biographical Reference works in the library :

 

Encyclopedia of World Biography . REF 920 ENC

The index to the entire set is in the last volume (volume 27).

Encyclopedia Britannica . REF AE 031 Bri 2002

World Book Encyclopedia . REF AE 031 Wor 2000

 

Reference Works En Español :

Best Bet Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos . REF 036.1 Enc 2001

This 13-volume set is a translation of the World Book's Student Discovery Encyclopedia.

Enciclopedias Escolar . REF 036.1 Enc 2000

A one-volume children's encyclopedia from Spain .

Enciclopedia Basica Danae en Color . REF 463.03 Dan 1975

Pequeño Larousse Ilustrado . REF 463.03 Lar 1986

  

 

 

Databases:

 

Databases available from the CDS Library's Web Page : ( http://www.cdschool.org/library/LibraryHome.htm ):

 

Ask the librarian for the passwords!

 

Biography Resource Center

Contains over 400,000 biographies from 130 respected Gale Group reference resources and also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals and more than 23,000 images.

 

Student Resource Center

Contains primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of 1,000 magazines, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips.

LexisNexis

Very current newspaper articles from the US and other countries (as well as other resources).  Perfect for that "in-the-news" person.

 

 

 

Specialized Reference Sources:

 

The works listed below are starting places. Look at the books on the shelf around them to find more on the same subject.

Then check in the circulating collection at the same call number or browse the catalogue.

 

 

The Cambridge Companion to Modern Latin American Culture . REF 980.03 Cam 2004   

The Cultural Atlas of Spain and Portugal . REF 946 VIN

The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture . REF 946.082 Enc 2002

Fodor's Spain , 2002 . REF 914.604 Fod 2002

Frommer's Mexico , 2005 . REF 917.204 Fro 2004

 

Politics :

Oxford Companion to Politics of the World . REF 320 Oxf 2001

World Governments . REF 320.3 WOR 1990

 

Art :

Be sure to check the library catalogue. We have many books on individual artists!

The Oxford Companion to Western Art . REF 709 Oxf 2001

Encyclopedia of Art . REF 703 PRA

Encyclopedia of Artists . REF 709.2 Enc 2000

 

Literature :

Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20 th Century . REF 803 Enc 1999

Twentieth-Century Authors . REF 809.04 Twe 1942

Twentieth-Century Authors: Supplement . REF 809.04 Twe 1942

World Authors, 1950-1970 . REF 809.04 Wor 1975

Critical Survey of Long Fiction . REF 809.3 Cri 2000 (check the index for your author's name; also check the article on Spanish fiction)

Critical Survey of Short Fiction . REF 809.3 Cri 2001

Music :

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians . REF 780.3 NEW 1995

20 volumes of musical goodness .

The Oxford Companion to Music . REF 780.3 Oxf 2002

 

Theatre and Film :

Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts . REF 791.43 Hay 2000

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre & Performance . REF 792.03 Oxf 2003

 

 

Circulating Books:

Spain : General Information :

The Regions of Spain : A Reference Guide to History and Culture . 946 Ker 1995

Spain : A Modern History . 946 MAD

Spain : A Country Study . 946SPA

The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture . 946.07 Cam 2000

Spain and Portugal : Democratic Beginnings . 946.083 MCC

 

 

Latin American Art in the Twentieth Century . 709 Lat 1996

The Arts in Latin America , 1492-1820 . 709.807 Art 2006

The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics . 972 Mex 2002

Unstill Life : An Introduction to the Spanish Poetry of Latin America . 861.08 BEN

Born in Blood and Fire : A Concise History of Latin America . 980 Cha 2005

Imagination Beyond Nation : Latin American Popular Culture . 980 Ima 1998

Latin American Popular Culture : An Introduction . 980 Lat 2000

 

Spanish literature . 860s

  Anthologies, dictionaries, history, and various works.

 

 

Books:

 

Check the library catalogue for your person's name as a keyword .

You might get lucky and find we have entire books about him/her, or s/he might be a subject of a chapter in a book.

 

 

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Rev. 4-08, K. St. Clair