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Additional Guides in the Area of Spanish

• Spanish Culture ­ • Spanish Language and Linguistics ­ • Spanish Literature ­ • Spanish Teaching and Pedagogy ­

Spanish Literature Subject Guide

Research Databases


(Consult this list for interdisciplinary databases)

Gale's Literary Index


Gale's Literary Index is a free index to more than 130 literary criticism and literary biography reference sets. Hekman owns many of these reference sets (up to 2008) in print in the Reference Collection; read the full annotation to see a list of the sets owned by the library (with call numbers). Online full-text access is also available for a number of these titles (selected coverage from 1998-current) through the database Literature Resource Center.
View:  Online Annotation

JSTOR


JSTOR is a database consisting of only full-text articles from interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journals. Journals are included on the basis of number of subscribers the journal has, citation analysis, recommendations from experts in the field, and the length of time that the journal has been published. Coverage for each title begins with the first publication, with most titles ending coverage between three and five years ago.
View:  Online

MLA International Bibliography


The MLA International Bibliography is a subject index for books, articles and websites published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. MLA International Bibliography dates back to 1925 and contains over 2 million citations from more than 4,400 periodicals and 1,000 book publishers. Subscription to the MLA International Bibliography also includes access to the MLA Directory of Periodicals database.
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WebCat


WebCat is a catalog of all materials in Hekman Library including ejournals, ebooks, government documents, and multimedia.
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WorldCat


Worldcat is a catalog of materials found in hundreds of libraries throughout the world. There are currently over 62 million records in 400 languages extending back to as early as 1,000 B.C. WorldCat is updated daily.
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Reference Materials



European Writers

- PN501 .E9 1983
Biographical and critical analysis essays on European writers from the Middle Ages through the Twentieth Century. Indepth coverage in 14 volumes.
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Hispanic Literature Criticism

- PQ6039 .H5 1994
Hispanic Literature Criticism, a 2-volume set, focuses on contemporary authors.
View:   In Print Annotation

Hispanic Writers

- PQ7081.3 .H58 1991
"Biographical sketches of some 400 influential literary, political, and scholarly authors from the US, Spain, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Spanish-speaking countries of South and Central America."
View:   In Print Annotation

Latin American Writers

- PQ7081.A1 L37 1989
"It includes over 176 chroniclers, novelists, poets, journalists, and playwrights from the 16th century to the present in a 3-vol. set."
View:   In Print Annotation

World Poets

- PN1021 .W67 2000
3-volume set written especially for students of poetry and comprised of authoritative bio-critical articles by scholars and poets.
View:   In Print Annotation

Web Sources



Latin American Periodicals Table of Contents (LAPTOC)


Provides access to tables of contents for more than 800 journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, published in Latin America.
View:  Online Annotation

Periodicals



ejournal locator (SFX)


The Hekman Library ejournal locator provides title and subject access to all the electronic journals subscribed to by the Hekman Library.
View:  Online Annotation

WebCat Search Hints

- Subject-specific hints for searching the library catalog

PQ 6001-8929 is the Library of Congress call number range for Spanish literature. That is broken down into subcategories: history and critcism (6001-6168), collections (6170-6269), and individual authors (6271-6676). Regional and Spanish literature written outside of Spain is assigned the number range 7000-8929.

Spanish Subject Guide Librarian


DeMey, Kathy

Reference Librarian

Contact Info:
Hekman Library 200 Phone: 526-6310 Email: kdemeyATcalvin.edu; Liaison areas: Music, Art, French, Spanish. Office hours: Monday 12:30-3, 5-6; Tuesday 5-6; Wednesday 4-6; Thursday 5-10; Friday 12:30-3.

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