Unas Personas Importantes en España en el Siglo XX

A Carolina Day School Library Reference Guide

General Biographical Information

Reference works in the library

Encyclopedia of World Biography .   REF 920 ENC

Current Biography (through 1999).   REF 920.003 CUR

Encyclopedia Britannica .   REF 031 Bri 2002

World Book Encyclopedia .   REF 031 Wor 2000

En Español:

Enciclopedia Basica Danae en Color .   REF 463.03 Dan 1975

Pequeño Larousse Ilustrado .   REF 463.03 Lar 1986

Databases available from the CDS Library's Web Page

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              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!

Specialized Reference Sources:

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

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

Spain

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

Politics

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

World Governments .   REF 320.3 WOR 1990

Art

The Oxford Companion to Western Art .   REF 709 Oxf 2001

Encyclopedia of Art .   REF 703 PRA

Literature:

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

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:

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

Spanish literature .   860s

Anthologies, dictionaries, history, and various works.

Check the 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.

Out on the Wild, Wild Web

Want to surf the Internet for information?  Before you Google, try the fabulous Internet Directories listed on the library website!  You won't be sorry!

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For example, type in "Spain" as a search in The Librarian's Index to the Internet and find yourself rewarded with a host of well-chosen and well-described websites.

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