Cuba

A Carolina Day School Library Resource Guide

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 2000

Time Almanac .   REF 031 Tim 2005

World Almanac .   REF 031 Wor 2005

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

World Governments .   REF 320.3 WOR 1990

Oxford Companion to American Military History .   REF 355 Oxf 1999

Encyclopedia of World Biography .   REF 920 ENC

Current Biography (through 1999).   REF 920.003 CUR

Dictionary of American History .   REF 973.03 Dic v1 2003

American Decades . REF 973.92 Ame   1996

Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America .   REF 305.8 GAL

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

Databases available from the CDS Library's Web Page

CDS Library Home Page :

                  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.

                  Oxford Reference Online

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!

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.

The following books will be on reserve:

Latin American Popular Culture: An Introduction .  980 Lat 2000

Latin American Art of the 20 th Century .   709Luc 1993

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

Internet Sites:

CIA World Factbook: Cuba . http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/cu.html

The ever-helpful Central Intelligence Agency 's World Factbook has all orts of wonderful statistics, updated less than a month ago.   Want to know how many airports in Cuba have paved runways?   Look here.

Cuba . http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/cuba/

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…"

Exploring the Culture of Little Havana .   

  http://www.education.miami.edu/

A couple of essays about Cuban food from The University of Miami.

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