• visit the library
• Call the reference desk : 510-981-2821
• send an email : jboatright@peralta.edu

SAMPLE CALL NUMBERS

In the library you will find American Poetry books
arranged on the stacks among the following sample call numbers:

SAMPLE SUBJECT HEADINGS

Once you identify appropriate subject headings, you can perform Subject searches in the library catalog.  Start by searching the catalog by keyword. Use whatever terms you think best describe your topic. When you find a record that matches what you are looking for, view the record and see what subject headings were used. Then search again using that term as a subject search.
• American Poetry – 20th Century
• American Poetry – 20th Century –History and Criticism
• American Poetry – 20th Century – Collections
• American Poetry – Bibliography
• American Poetry – English Influences
• American Poetry – African American Authors
• American Poetry – New York (State) – New York
• American Poetry – Southern States
• American Poetry – Women Authors
• Whitman, Walt 1819-1892
• Dickinson, Emily 1830-1886 –Criticism and Interpretations
• Beat generation – poetry

SAMPLE ANTHOLOGIES AVAILABLE AT THE BCC LIBRARY

• Postmodern American poetry : a Norton anthology : PS615 .P669 1994
• The Norton anthology of modern poetry : PS613 .N67 1988
• American poetry in the twentieth century : PS323.5 .R4 1973
• Oxford book of American verse ” PS583 .O82
• Modern American poetry [and] Modern British poetry : PR1224 .U62 1950
• New Oxford book of American verse : PS584 .N4
• The treasury of American poetry : PS584 .T8 1993
• The Vintage book of contemporary American poetry : PS615 .V46 1990
• Under 35 : the new generation of American poets : PS615 .U53 1989
• Fifty years of American poetry : PS613 .F5 1995
• Postmodern American poetry : a Norton anthology : PS615 .P669 1994
• 100 great poems by women : PS589 .O48 1995
• American women poets : pioneers of modern poetry : PS151 .G6
• The Oxford anthology of African-American poetry : PS591.N4 O97 2006
• The garden thrives : twentieth-century African-American poetry : PS591.N4 G37 1996
• Furious flower : African American poetry from the Black arts movement to the present : PS591 .N4 F87 2004
• Shadowed dreams : women’s poetry of the Harlem Renaissance : PS591.N4 S54 2006
• Asian American poetry : the next generation “PS591. A76 A83 2004
• Touching the fire : fifteen poets of today’s Latino renaissance : PS591 .H58 T68
• Triple crown : Chicano, Puerto Rican, and Cuban-American poetry : PS591.H58 T75 1987
• The beat book : writings from the beat generation : PS614 1999

SAMPLE BOOKS ABOUT POETRY AVAILABLE AT THE BCC LIBRARY

• How to read a poem : PR502 .E23 2007
• The making of a poem : PR1175 .M275 2000
• The given and the made : strategies of poetic redefinition : PS323.5 .V39
• the situation of poetry : contemporary poetry and its traditions : PS325 .P5
• Contemporary poetry in America : essays and interviews : PS323.5 .C6

MANY ADDITIONAL BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE ONLINE :   Try searching E-Books  which provides digital full-text access to over 600  books on literature and criticism.

SAMPLE WEB RESOURCES

• Academy of American Poets: A resource from the Academy of American Poets
• Bartleby.com – Verse : a collection of poetry anthologies
• Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress)
• Poetry Society of America (PSA) : This organization for poets and readers is known for its annual awards, which include the Frost Medal and the Shelley Memorial Award. The site includes lists of Frost and Shelley award winners back to 1930, and poems by current award winners.
• Modern American Poetry : A collection of over 150 poets that “includes excerpts from interesting analyses of poems, biographical information, relevant illustrations (such as book jackets, broadsides, paintings, drawings, comics, and photographs), manuscripts, drafts of poems.  For a list of poets covered in the site click here
• The United States of Poetry : Companion to a 1996 Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) series that provided a “portrait of the country as seen through its language and poetry and was hailed as a major achievement by newspapers and periodicals.” View poet backgrounds, poems …

Browse subject headings in Academic Search Complete

Listed here are a number of web sites that provide help in finding a research paper topic for business:

• Library of Congress Business Subject Headings
• Business Topics | business.gov.au 
• Business Speech topics

WHAT ELEMENTS MIGHT AN ANNOTATION INCLUDE?
1.  Bibliography according to the appropriate citation style (MLA, APA, CBE/CSE, etc.).
2. Explanation of main points and/or purpose of the work—basically, its thesis—which shows among other things that you have read and thoroughly understand the source.
3. Verification or critique of the authority or qualifications of the author.
4. Comments on the worth, effectiveness, and usefulness of the work in terms of both the topic being researched and/or your own research project.
5. The point of view or perspective from which the work was written. For instance, you may note whether the author seemed to have particular biases or was trying to reach a particular audience.
6. Relevant links to other work done in the area, like related sources, possibly including a comparison with some of those already on your list. You may want to establish connections to other aspects of the same argument or opposing views.

The first four elements above are usually a necessary part of the annotated bibliography. Points 5 and 6 may involve a little more analysis of the source, but you may include them in other kinds of annotations besides evaluative ones. Depending on the type of annotation you use, which this handout will address in the next section, there may be additional kinds of information that you will need to include.

Types of annotations
One annotation does not fit all purposes!  There are different kinds of annotations, depending on what might be most important for your reader to learn about a source. Your assignments will usually make it clear which citation format you need to use, but they may not always specify which type of annotation to employ. In that case, you’ll either need to pick your instructor’s brain a little to see what s/he wants or use clue words from the assignment itself to make a decision.

Summary annotations
There are two kinds of summarizing annotations, informative and indicative.
Summarizing annotations in general have a couple of defining features: They sum up the content of the source, as a book report might. They give an overview of the arguments and proofs/evidence addressed in the work and note the resulting conclusion.
They do not judge the work they are discussing. Leave that to the critical/evaluative annotations.
Informative annotation
Informative annotations sometimes read like straight summaries of the source material, but they often spend a little more time summarizing relevant information about the author or the work itself.
Indicative annotation
Indicative annotation is the second type of summary annotation, but it does not attempt to include actual information from the argument itself. Instead, it gives general information about what kinds of questions or issues are addressed by the work. This sometimes includes the use of chapter titles.

Critical/evaluative
Evaluative annotations don’t just summarize. In addition to tackling the points addressed in summary annotations,
evaluative annotations:
evaluate the source or author critically (biases, lack of evidence, objective, etc.). show how the work may or may not be useful for a particular field of study or audience. explain how researching this material assisted your own project.
Combination
An annotated bibliography may combine elements of all the types.  In fact, most of them fall into this category: a little summarizing and describing, a little evaluation.
From: The Writing Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill http://writingcenter.unc.edu/resources/handouts-demos/specific-writing-assignments/annotated-bibliographies

Identify key concepts and terms related to our topic area.
There may be just one concept or, much more likely, several concepts that will need to be considered.
Within each concept, you will need to determine appropriate words or phrases, including synonyms, broader terms, related terms and narrower terms.  Revise this list during the actual search process by noting and using subject headings that have been assigned to relevant books and articles.
For example if planning to do a research paper on “gun control” other terms you might use are firearms  and  law or legislation or
firearms  and ownership or  guns and violent crimes

2. DATABASE SELECTION

Broadly speaking you can search three distinct places: library catalogs (for books), databases (for articles) and the freely available Internet (for rare needles in the haystack).

Books,  searchable via library catalogs, are great sources of both general and highly specific information.
Databases provide access to high quality, up-to-date information from respected publishers and publications. They provide sophisticated search capabilities and access in many instances to online full-text articles.
Be very careful using the freely available web. You risk finding too much “junk,” with web pages that contain potentially biased information from unreliable and unverifiable sources. For finding accurate, useful information quickly, the web is generally no match for database and catalog searching.
Gear the databases you search to your topic. For Example: If your topic deals with psychology, search psychology databases such as Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection. For business topics, search Business Source Premier.
For interdisciplinary topics, search general databases such as Academic Search Premier, MasterFile Premier and EthnicNews. There are brief descriptions of each database on the library’s databases page. If you have any questions regarding which database(s) to search ask a librarian.

3 START THE SEARCH:  Start with a general search

If you start with a complicated search, you will probably retrieve a very small number of articles.
You are much better off to start with a general search and then refine your search from there.
For example, if you are researching various aspects of the subject of  obesity,  start with a simple search just on the term obesity.
Enter this one concept and analyze results.
Ask yourself the following questions:

• How much information is available on my topic?
• Are there better terms that I could be using?
• Will I need to narrow or expand my topic?

4. ADVANCED SEARCH

Nearly all databases have an advanced search option that lets you to do sophisticated searches by combining the various concepts you have already identified for your search.
The advanced search mode will also allow you specify which fields you want to search, including author name, article title, publication title, subject, etc.

5. SUBJECT HEADINGS

Articles and books in library databases and catalogs are assigned subject headings by people who review each document.
Each article or book is looked at carefully and then assigned one or more subject headings.
These subject headings are selected from a specific list of possible subject headings.
If a subject heading is used for one article or book on the topic, the same heading will be used for other articles or books on the topic.
Most books and articles are assigned many subject headings.
You can determine relevant subject headings by finding an article or two that deals directly with your research topic.
Then do a search on the subject headings assigned to those articles.
You can use the advanced search mode to search for your terms in the subject field.

6. BOOLEAN OPERATORS : AND, OR, NOT

When you want to combine search terms, you will need to use what are called Boolean operators or connectors. This is best done using the advanced search mode.
For example:  if you are researching ways to combat obesity, you need to split your search into two concepts:  combat and obesity.
Next, you need to connect these two terms with a Boolean operator.
Using the operator AND will retrieve articles that mention both terms somewhere in the article.
Using the operator OR between the two terms will retrieve articles that mention either term.
In this case, AND is the appropriate connector because you want to retrieve articles that address both concepts, combat and obesity.
The use of AND generally will retrieve a smaller set of results.
Use of Boolean operators allows you considerable flexibility in your search.
As another example, if you wanted to retrieve articles that dealt with either obesity or over weight, then the appropriate Boolean operator is OR.
The search obesity OR overweight will retrieve articles that mention either term.
The use of OR generally will retrieve a larger set of results.
OR is especially useful when you are searching with terms that are synonyms or that deal with the same basic concept.
Using the OR in your search will retrieve articles that contain any of the synonyms that you use.
If you wanted to exclude terms, you would use the Boolean operator NOT.
For example, if you were interested in the subject obesity, but not interested in how fast-foods relate to obesity, you could exclude all items that have the term fast-foods by searching obesity NOT fast-foods.
Effective use of Boolean operators is essential to sophisticated research.

7. TRUNCATION

Truncate search terms to retrieve all variants of a term.
Truncation symbols vary from database to database. Examples include: *, ?, !, % and $.
For example:  If you search on the term plagiar* in ProQuest, you will retrieve articles that contain any words that begin with the letters plagiar, including: plagiarism, plagiarize, plagiarizing, plagiarized, plagiarizer, plagiarizers, plagiarist, etc.
Using the truncation symbol will allow you to broaden your search to include materials on any variant of a term.
Most database search interfaces are not sophisticated enough to search for all variants of a term automatically.

8. LIMITING

Most databases have limiting features that will let you focus the results of your search.
You may be able to limit your searches to retrieve only scholarly or peer-reviewed articles.
You can also limit to particular date ranges or particular journals.
Many databases provide their own unique limiters, which allow you to limit by intended audience, item type (peer reviewed, journal or newspaper article ), language, country of publication and more.
Limiting your searches will allow you to narrow your search, resulting in a smaller list of more relevant materials.

9. ADAPT THE SEARCH:

• NARROWING If you are retrieving too many articles, focus your search by adding terms, limiting terms to particular fields, or by limiting your searches.
• EXPANDING If you are retrieving too few articles, expand your search by removing terms or searching for terms in keywords or full-text. Consider adding synonyms or similar terms to your search if the ones you are using aren’t very effective.
• BE FLEXIBLE Above all, be flexible in your searching. If one term doesn’t work, try a different one. Approach your topic using as many search strategies as you can think of.

There will never be one perfect search for your topic. It may take dozens of searches to retrieve all the necessary information.
If you get stuck, don’t spend all day with a futile search. Instead, ask librarian for assistance. They are there to help.

10. WEB CONCERNS

No Subject Headings
Encountering useless web pages are only one problem in using the Internet for research. There are many other major issues.  One problem is that nearly all search engines lack the sophisticated search capabilities that both library catalogs and databases provide.  Because of this, searches will often return results of thousands and thousands of web pages.You will get better search results using subscription databases and library catalogs rather than Internet search engines.
Questionable Quality
Because anyone can create a web page, the quality of information on the web is always in question. There is also an inordinate amount of repetitive, superficial information, often of a promotional or persuasive nature. You must also be careful to avoid commercial web sites that are trying to sell a product or service. Above all, the bias or slant of web sites must be considered, although it can frequently be difficult to determine a site’s particular bias.
Questions To Consider
Searching the web is very time-consuming because you need to consider many issues before using a web page in your research.

• Is the information from a respected and reliable source? If you can’t tell, the answer is probably no.
  Is the page trying to sell you something?
  What are the author’s credentials?
  Why was the web page created? It should be clear from viewing the page.
  Is the information accurate? Biased? Outdated?
  Are sources clearly cited?

Use Only When Appropriate
Only after answering all of these questions can you be sure that your resource is appropriate for a research paper. The “About Us” section of a web page, if available, will often provide this information.

Stick To Databases
However, by searching only subscription databases and limiting your search to scholarly or peer-reviewed sources, you can virtually guarantee that all materials retrieved will be appropriate for a research paper.

Authors:     Leslie Mathews
Issue Date:     2010-10-29T18:36:39Z
Institution:     Fielding Graduate University
Faculty:     Leslie Mathews
Department:     Library Services
URI:     http://hdl.handle.net/1880/48243

Journals, magazines, and newspapers are important sources for up-to-date information in all disciplines.  In this guide we have divided the criteria for evaluating periodical literature into five categories:

• Scholarly
• Substantive News/General
• Popular
• Sensational
• Trade

DEFINITIONS:

Webster’s Third International Dictionary defines

Scholarly as:

• concerned with academic study, especially research,
• exhibiting the methods and attitudes of a scholar, and
• having the manner and appearance of a scholar.

Substantive as having a solid base, being substantial.

Popular means fit for, or reflecting the taste and intelligence of, the people at large.

Sensational as arousing or intending to arouse strong curiosity, interest or reaction.

Trade as geared to people who work in a specific business (or trade).

Keeping these definitions in mind, and realizing that none of the lines drawn between types of journals can ever be totally clear cut, the general criteria are as follows.

SCHOLARLY

Scholarly journals are also called academic, peer-reviewed, or refereed journals. (Strictly speaking, peer-reviewed (also called refereed) journals refer only to those journals that submit articles to several other scholars, experts, or academics (peers) in the field for review and comment. These reviewers must agree that the article represents properly conducted original research or writing before it can be published.)

What to look for:

• Scholarly journal articles often have an abstract, a descriptive summary of the article contents, before the main text of the article.
• Scholarly journals generally have a sober, serious look. They often contain many graphs and charts but few glossy pages or exciting pictures.
• Scholarly journals always cite their sources in the form of footnotes or bibliographies. These bibliographies are generally lengthy and cite other scholarly writings.
• Articles are written by a scholar in the field or by someone who has done research in the field. The affiliations of the authors are listed, usually at the bottom of the first page or at the end of the article–universities, research institutions, think tanks, and the like.
• The language of scholarly journals is that of the discipline covered. It assumes some technical background on the part of the reader.
• The main purpose of a scholarly journal is to report on original research or experimentation in order to make such information available to the rest of the scholarly world.
• Many scholarly journals, though by no means all, are published by a specific professional organization.

EXAMPLES OF SCHOLARLY JOURNALS:

• American Economic Review
• Applied Geography
• Archives of Sexual Behavior
• Journal of Comparative Family Studies
• Journal of Theoretical Biology
• Modern Fiction Studies

SUBSTANTIVE NEWS OR GENERAL INTEREST

These periodicals may be quite attractive in appearance, although some are in newspaper format. Articles are often heavily illustrated, generally with photographs.

What to look for:

• News and general interest periodicals sometimes cite sources, though more often do not.
• Articles may be written by a member of the editorial staff, a scholar or a free lance writer.
• The language of these publications is geared to any educated audience. There is no specialty assumed, only interest and a certain level of intelligence.
• They are generally published by commercial enterprises although some come from specific professional organizations.
• The main purpose of periodicals in this category is to provide information, in a general manner, to a broad audience of concerned citizens.

EXAMPLES OF SUBSTANTIVE NEWS OR GENERAL INTEREST PERIODICALS:

• The Economist
• National Geographic
• The New York Times
• The New Yorker
• Scientific American
• Vital Speeches of the Day

POPULAR

 Popular periodicals come in many formats, although often slick and attractive in appearance with lots of color graphics (photographs, drawings, etc.).

What to look for:

• These publications do not cite sources in a bibliography. Information published in popular periodicals is often second or third hand and the original source is rarely mentioned.
• Articles are usually very short and written in simple language.
• The main purpose of popular periodicals is to entertain the reader, to sell products (their own or their advertisers), or to promote a viewpoint

EXAMPLES OF POPULAR PERIODICALS:

• Ebony
• Newsweek
• People Weekly
• Readers Digest
• Sports Illustrated
• Time
• Vogue

SENSATIONAL

Sensational periodicals come in a variety of styles, but often use a newspaper format.

What to look for:

• Their language is elementary and occasionally inflammatory or sensational. They assume a certain gullibility in their audience.
• The main purpose of sensational magazines seems to be to arouse curiosity and to cater to popular superstitions. They often do so with flashy headlines designed to astonish (e.g., Half-man Half-woman Makes Self Pregnant).

EXAMPLES OF SENSATIONAL PERIODICALS:

• Globe
• National Examiner
• Star
• Weekly World News

TRADE

A trade publication, unlike a consumer publication, covers a specific industry for people who work in that industry. Such publications cover an industry in more minute details than a consumer publication might.  Trade publications deliver information that’s of value to those who work in a certain field, but might not be of as much interest to the general public.

 EXAMPLES OF TRADE PUBLICATIONS

• American Libraries Magazine
• Hardwood Floors Magazine
• Information Today
• Variety.

FINDING PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

There is no comprehensive source for identifying all peer-reviewed journals. To help determine if a particular journal is peer-reviewed, refer to the journal itself (either to an individual issue of the journal or to the publisher’s web site).

However, some online databases to which the Library subscribes have begun to flag the peer-reviewed journals so they can be searched in the database. Following is a list of databases offering peer-reviewed journal searching:

EBSCO DATABASES:  You can limit your search to peer reviewed journals when beginning your search by clicking on “Search Options” and selecting “Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals” or while running your search by selecting “Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals” on left hand side of the screen under “Refine your results”

ETHNIC NEWSWATCH: You can limit your search to peer reviewed journals when beginning your search by clicking “Scholarly journals, including peer-reviewed”when beginning your search or by clicking on the “Scholarly Journals” tab once you have ran your query.

CREDO REFERENCE:  Provides Online access to over 300 reference books

• Credo search for Geoffrey Chaucer
• Credo search for John Milton
• Credo search for Edmund Spenser

ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER (EBSCO): provides full text for more than 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles.

MAGILL ON LITERATURE PLUS (EBSCO): includes all the literary works, reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries that are included in MagillOnLiterature, as well as all the biographies and author essays included in MagillOnAuthors.

INTERNET RESOURCES

GENERAL

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms

English Literature Web Gateways and Search Engines :  “Broad, subject-related sites and subject-specific search engines available without restriction on the World Wide Web.”

The IPL Literary Criticism Collection “contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.”

Literary Glossary from EDSite

Luminarium: An Anthology of English Literature: “This site combines several sites first created in 1996 to provide a starting point for students and enthusiasts of English Literature. Nothing replaces a quality library, but hopefully this site will help fill the needs of those who have not access to one.”

MIT Literature Resources

Norton Anthology Of English Literature: Prepared by the Norton Anthology editors, this extensive, freely accessible Web resource for The Norton Anthology of English Literature offers twenty-seven topics for study and discussion.

MIDDLE ENGLISH RESOURCES

•  Anthology of Middle English Literature (1350-1485)
•  Index of internet sites on Middle English Literature
•  Middle English Essays and Articles : “These essays are not intended to replace library research. They are here to show you what others think about a given subject, and to perhaps spark an interest or an idea in you. To take one of these essays, copy it, and to pass it off as your own is known as plagiarism—academic dishonesty which will result (in every university I’ve heard tell of) in suspension or dismissal from the university. Not only are your professors as technology savvy as you are, they will not tolerate theft of another’s intellectual efforts.“

 GEOFFREY CHAUCER: 

ABOUT

• Luminarium
• Harvard’s Chaucer site

 WORKS

• Works linked in Luminarium
• Works available via Google Books
• Canterbury Tales texts, study resources, audio recordings
• Canterbury Tales with Glossary
• Canterbury Tales in Middle English and Modern English: “This site features two full editions of the Canterbury Tales online: the original Middle English text, and a Modern English translation in rhyming couplets. The texts can be viewed enface (‘facing page’), as well as in interpolated formats (mixed line by line).”

 ESSAYS AND ARTICLES

• Essays and Articles on Chaucer [includes student essays, essays from journals and theses]: “These essays are not intended to replace library research. They are here to show you what others think about a given subject, and to perhaps spark an interest or an idea in you. To take one of these essays, copy it, and to pass it off as your own is known as plagiarism—academic dishonesty which will result (in every university I’ve heard tell of) in suspension or dismissal from the university. Not only are your professors as technology savvy as you are, they will not tolerate theft of another’s intellectual efforts.”
• Canterbury Tales

 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES ON CHAUCER

 16th CENTURY RENAISSANCE ENGLISH LITERATURE RESOURCES

• Anthology of 16th Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603)
•  Index of internet sites on 16^th Century Renaissance English Literature
•  16th Century Renaissance English Literature Essays and Articles: “These essays are not intended to replace library research. They are here to show you what others think about a given subject, and to perhaps spark an interest or an idea in you. To take one of these essays, copy it, and to pass it off as your own is known as plagiarism—academic dishonesty which will result (in every university I’ve heard tell of) in suspension or dismissal from the university. Not only are your professors as technology-savvy as you are, they will not tolerate theft of another’s intellectual efforts.”

 EDMUND SPENSER

 ABOUT

• Luminarium

 WORKS

• Works linked in Luminarium
• Works available via Google Books

 ESSAYS AND ARTICLES

• Essays and Articles on Spenser [includes student essays, essays from journals and theses]: “These essays are not intended to replace library research. They are here to show you what others think about a given subject, and to perhaps spark an interest or an idea in you. To take one of these essays, copy it, and to pass it off as your own is known as plagiarism—academic dishonesty which will result (in every university I’ve heard tell of) in suspension or dismissal from the university. Not only are your professors as technology-savvy as you are, they will not tolerate theft of another’s intellectual efforts.”
• IPL List of Essays

 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES ON SPENSER

 EARLY 17TH CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE RESOURCES

•  Anthology of Early 17th Century English Literature (1603-1660)
• Index of Internet sites on 17th Century English Literature
• Early 17th Century Literature Essays and Articles: “These essays are not intended to replace library research. They are here to show you what others think about a given subject, and to perhaps spark an interest or an idea in you. To take one of these essays, copy it, and to pass it off as your own is known as plagiarism—academic dishonesty which will result (in every university I’ve heard tell of) in suspension or dismissal from the university. Not only are your professors as technology-savvy as you are, they will not tolerate theft of another’s intellectual efforts.”

 JOHN MILTON

 ABOUT

• Luminarium

WORKS

• Works linked in Luminarium
• Works available via Google Books
• Milton Reading Room: “The site now contains all of Milton’s poetry in English, Italian, Latin, and Greek, and selections of his prose. Almost all of the works presented here have been fully annotated; most have solid introductions as well.”

 ESSAYS AND ARTICLES

• Essays and Articles on Milton [includes student essays, essays from journals and theses]: “These essays are not intended to replace library research. They are here to show you what others think about a given subject, and to perhaps spark an interest or an idea in you. To take one of these essays, copy it, and to pass it off as your own is known as plagiarism—academic dishonesty which will result (in every university I’ve heard tell of) in suspension or dismissal from the university. Not only are your professors as technology-savvy as you are, they will not tolerate theft of another’s intellectual efforts.”
• IPL List of Essays

 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES ON JOHN MILTON

 FINDING PRINT RESOURCES

 CALL NUMBERS

The English literature section is arranged chronologically and thematically. Books about authors are shelved with their works.  All books are sorted by Library of Congress call numbers. Since call numbers are directly related to the primary subject of the book, you can browse the collection on the period you are interested in by browsing the following call numbers:

• For Medieval literature browse PR 1490 through PR 2165
• For Renaissance prose and poetry (1500 – 1640) browse PR 2200 through PR 2405
• For Renaissance drama (1500 – 1640) browse PR 2417 through PR 3195
• For Authors writing 1640 – 1770 browse PR 3300 through PR 3785
• For Authors writing 1770 – 1900 browse PR 4000 through PR 5925

When looking for a specific work or author it may be more efficient to begin by searching the Library Catalog in order to get a call number range to start browsing in.

 SUBJECT HEADINGS

Subject headings are a type of controlled vocabulary that  is used to take the guesswork out of searching by using a single term or phrase to describe a subject.  Using a standardized controlled vocabulary allows searches to be done quickly and with more accuracy.  While used for the library catalog, they may also be useful search terms when searching databases or the internet.

 Sample Subject Headings Use the following Library of Congress Subject Headings to search in the catalog  

•  Anglo-Saxons — Intellectual life
• Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature
• Civilization, Medieval, in literature
• Drama, medieval
• Epic poetry, English (Old) — History and criticism
• English literature — Old English, ca. 450-1100 — History and criticism
• Literature, medeival
• Middle Ages–Literary collections
• Dramatists, English — Early modern, 1500-1700
• English Drama –17th Century
• English literature — Early modern, 1500-1700
• English poetry — Early modern, 1500-1700
• Great Britain — Intellectual life — 17th century
• Humanism
• Renaissance — England
• Theater–England–History

Other keywords that may be useful for searching in the catalog and other sources include:

Carolinean, Jacobean, Tudor(s), Elizabethan, Shakespearean, English Renaissance, Restoration

WHEN:   THE FIRST MONDAY OF THE MONTH 4-6pm
WHERE: THE BCC AUDITORIUM (ROOM 21)

Films will be introduced by Humanities Professor, Laura Ruberto

GRAND ILLUSION

Director: Jean Renoir France 1937 

MONDAY, OCTOBER 4^TH (4-6PM RM 21) 

Synopsis from the Janus Collection: One of the very first prison escape movies, Grand Illusion is hailed as one of the greatest films ever made. Jean Renoir’s antiwar masterpiece stars Jean Gabin and Pierre Fresnay as French soldiers held in a World War I German prison camp, and Erich von Stroheim as the unforgettable Captain von Rauffenstein.

UGETSU

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi Japan 1953

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1^ST (4-6PM RM 21) 

Synopsis from the Janus Collection: “Quite simply one of the greatest of filmmakers,” said Jean-Luc Godard of Kenji Mizoguchi. And Ugetsu, a ghost story like no other, is surely the Japanese director’s supreme achievement. Derived from stories by Akinari Ueda and Guy de Maupassant, this haunting tale of love and loss—with its exquisite blending of the otherworldly and the real—is one of the most beautiful films ever made.

VIRIDIANA

Director: Luis Buñuel Spain 1961

MONDAY, DECEMBER 6^TH (4-6PM RM 21) 

Synopsis from the Janus Collection: Banned in Spain and denounced by the Vatican, Luis Buñuel’s irreverent vision of life as a beggar’s banquet is regarded by many as his masterpiece. In it, novice nun Viridiana does her utmost to maintain her Catholic principles, but her lecherous uncle and a motley assemblage of paupers force her to confront the limits of her idealism. Winner of the Palme d’or at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival, Viridiana is as audacious today as ever.

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE FILMS AND DIRECTORS

 Luis Buñuel

• http://www.luisbunuel.com/
• http://www.luisbunuel.org/

Jean Renoir

• http://www.jeanrenoir.com/

 FROM THE INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE  http://www.imdb.com/

• Jean Renoir Filmography:  http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0719756/
• Krenji Mizoguchi Filmography: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003226/
• Luis Buñuel Filmography:  http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000320

 FROM SENSES OF CINEMA ARCHIVE “an online journal devoted to the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema” http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/index.html

• “Jean Renoir” by James Leahy: http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/03/renoir.html
• “Luis Buñuel” by Dominique Russell : http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/05/bunuel.html
• “Kenji Mizoguchi” by Alexander Jacoby : http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/02/mizoguchi.html

 FROM STRICTLY FILM SCHOOL http://www.filmref.com/index.html

• Kenji Mizoguchi: http://www.filmref.com/directors/dirpages/mizoguchi.html
• Luis Buñuel: http://www.filmref.com/directors/dirpages/bunuel.html
• Jean Renoir: http://www.filmref.com/directors/dirpages/renoir.html

ROGER EBERT REVIEWS http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/

• Grand Illusion: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19991003/REVIEWS08/910030301/1023
• Ugetsu: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040509/REVIEWS08/405090301/1023
• Viridiana:  http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100429/REVIEWS08/100429974/1023

SELECTED ARTICLES FROM EBSCO DATABASES: 

Perebinossoff, Phillipe R. “Theatricals in Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game and Grand Illusion.” Literature Film Quarterly 5.1 (1977): 50. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 7 Sept. 2010.
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=1&hid=113&sid=18a328b9-49e0-404b-9ffc-f05b69318e47%40sessionmgr104&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph&AN=7153753

Kauffmann, Stanley. “Visiting the Great.” New Republic 221.8 (1999): 28. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 7 Sept. 2010.
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=2&hid=113&sid=ba5b503a-f41f-42f9-b553-0dabb5e4abd1%40sessionmgr111&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph&AN=2127167

Kauffmann, Stanley. “From France, Old and New (Film).” New Republic 141.4/5 (1959): 30. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 7 Sept. 2010.
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=1&hid=113&sid=921a4984-30eb-4006-861d-b0a2b11e5d42%40sessionmgr113&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph&AN=14419106#db=aph&AN=14419106

Russell, Catherine. “Ugetsu.” Cineaste 31.3 (2006): 64-66. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 7 Sept. 2010.
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=1&hid=113&sid=f7d59624-1c2d-4b82-b911-88be4e242df0%40sessionmgr114&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph&AN=20246787#db=aph&AN=20246787

Chang, Chris. “sound & vision: Ghost Tones.” Film Comment 42.2 (2006): 16. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 7 Sept. 2010.
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=1&hid=113&sid=f7d59624-1c2d-4b82-b911-88be4e242df0%40sessionmgr114&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph&AN=20246787

Rosenbaum, Jonathan. “Viridiana.” Cineaste 31.4 (2006): 83. MasterFILE Premier. EBSCO. Web. 7 Sept. 2010.
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=2&hid=113&sid=73f037d1-1d88-419f-a161-082d4fde85b4%40sessionmgr111&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=f5h&AN=22500624

Luis, Rodríguez J. “Contamination and transformation: a Kristevan reading of Luis Buñuel’s Viridiana.” Studies in Hispanic Cinemas 1.3 (2004): 169-180. Communication & Mass Media Complete. EBSCO. Web. 7 Sept. 2010.
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=1&hid=113&sid=9ad746be-8966-49aa-8064-ca16b73b77db%40sessionmgr111&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=ufh&AN=17043371

Miles, Robert J. “Virgin on the edge: Luis Buñuel’s transnational trope.” Studies in Hispanic Cinemas 2.3 (2006): 169-188. Communication & Mass Media Complete. EBSCO. Web. 7 Sept. 2010.
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=1&hid=113&sid=0c3b6608-18d8-4c83-b5ac-94adc0c6bde7%40sessionmgr111&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=ufh&AN=22404053#db=ufh&AN=22404053

Sundt, Catherine. “Religion and Power: The Appropriation of Da Vinci’s the Last Supper in Viridianaand L’ultima Cena.” Romance Notes 49.1 (2009): 71-79. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 7 Sept. 2010.
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=1&hid=113&sid=95b5ee8c-7303-4151-b1cb-bedf6fd41b85%40sessionmgr112&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph&AN=48122855#db=aph&AN=48122855

SELECTED BOOKS ON CINEMA AVAILABLE AT THE BCC LIBRARY:

• American movie critics : an anthology from the silents until now PN1995 .A448 2006
• Becoming film literate : the art and craft of motion pictures PN1994 .L595 2005
• A companion to film theory PN1995 .C624 2004
• The critical eye : an introduction to looking at movies PN1995 .K286 2002
• Film, art, and filmart : an introduction to aesthetics through film PN1995 .D295 2007
• Film as art PN1994 .A672 
• Flashback, a brief history of film PN1993.5.A1 G54 2006 
• Italian neorealism and global cinema PN1993.5.I88 I76 2007
• The Oxford history of world cinema Reference PN1993.5.A1 O96 1997
• Making pictures : a century of European cinematography TR848 .M26 2003 
• The new European cinema : redrawing the map PN1993.5.E8 G35 2006
• The Oxford guide to film studies PN1995 .093 1998
• Placing movies : the practice of film criticism PN1995 .R65 1995
• Understanding movies PN1994 .G47 2008 
• Visual media and the humanities : a pedagogy of representation AZ183.U5 V57 2004
• What is cinema? PN1994 .B3513 2005 
• World cinema : critical approaches PN1994 .W6675 2000

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