Cuba
Library Resources
Carolina Day School
General Reference Sources
Reference works in the library :
Encyclopedia Britannica. REF AE 031 Bri 2002(Don't forget the library's online edition of Britannica: http://new.school.eb.com/ )World Book Encyclopedia. REF AE 031 Wor 2000Time Almanac. REF 031 Tim 2005World Almanac. REF 031 Wor 2005Oxford Companion to Politics of the World. REF 320 Oxf 2001World Governments. REF 320.3 WOR 1990Oxford Companion to American Military History. REF 355 Oxf 1999Encyclopedia of World Biography. REF 920 ENCCurrent Biography (through 1999). REF 920.003 CURDictionary of American History. REF 973.03 Dic v1 2003American Decades . REF 973.92 Ame 1996Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America. REF 305.8 GALThe Cambridge Companion to Modern Latin American Culture. REF 980.03 Cam 2004
Databases available from the CDS Library's Web Page : ( http://www.cdschool.org/library/LibraryHome.htm ):
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.
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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.
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Search over 100 Oxford University Press reference books, such as Who's Who in the Twentieth Century , and many specialized sources in subject areas such as history, art, literature, etc. The quotations are a great bonus!
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Over 200 US and foreign newspapers, broadcast transcripts, wire service reports, 40+ leading magazines, and foreign new sources in Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Dutch.
Circulating Books:
Check the catalogue for your subject or person's name as a keyword search. Remember that the catalogue also lists some Internet resources under WEB as a call number. Try Cuba as a keyword search as well, then sort by call number.
The following books will be on reserve:
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Latin American Art of the 20th Century . 709Luc 1993
Latin American Art in the Twentieth Century . 709 Lat 1996
Latin American Popular Culture: An Introduction . 980 Lat 2000
Imagination Beyond Nation: Latin American Popular Culture . 980 Ima 1998
The ever-helpful Central Intelligence Agency 's World Factbook has all sorts of wonderful statistics, updated less than a month ago. Want to know how many airports in Cuba have paved runways? Look here.
A long list of Cuban internet resources compiled at the University of Texas.
The Internet Cuban. http://icuban.com/
The authors of Three Guys from Miami Cook Cuban present " Cuban food recipes, articles about Cuban culture and traditions, Cuban music…"
Cuban Art / Arte de Cuba. http://www.cubanart.org/
"This site has been established by the Eastern Cuba Cultural Exchange Association in order to showcase the paintings of contemporary artists working in Eastern Cuba."
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"The Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami's Otto G. Richter Library brings together in one repository the most significant collection of research materials for Cuban and Cuban-American studies. Among the CHC's most valuable and unique holdings are the manuscript collections of personal and corporate papers . Photographs, manuscripts, letters, memorabilia and other materials from selected manuscript collections have been digitized to form our digital collection."
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Exploring the Culture of Little Havana. http://www.education.miami.edu/ep/LittleHavana/Cuban_Food/cuban_food.html
A couple of essays about Cuban food from The University of Miami.
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