Resources for Chicano/Latino Studies (CLA201-203)

Reference books

Reference books are a good place to start research. They can help you find background information, choose topics, and understand concepts and terminology. To access online resources from off campus you will need a your My Chemeketa user name and six-digit password; host provider students may obtain a login from the instructor or librarian.

General

REF 973.0468003 Encyclopedia Latina: history, culture, and society in the United States
REF 973.0468 H628 2003 The Hispanic American almanac : a reference work on Hispanics in the United States*
REF 973.0468003 The Oxford encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States

History

[E-book] Atlas and survey of Latin American history

REF 973.03 D56 2003 Dictionary of American History (Also online; 10 vols.)

972.003 En1 1997 Encyclopedia of Mexico: history, society & culture

REF 973.0468 H19 v.2 Handbook of Hispanic cultures in the United States: History

REF 327.73080903 D43 Historical dictionary of U.S.-Latin American relations

REF 980.01 N42 New Iberian world: a documentary history of the discovery and settlement of Latin America to the early 17th century

REF 973.0468003 R25 Reference Library of Hispanic America*

*Includes a chronology.

Finding other books and audiovisual materials

Browsing lists

Catalog search

Use the library catalog to look for additional materials. The catalog page includes instructions on using the catalog, as well as links to other library catalogs. You can search by key words, by authors, or by subject headings. A suggestion on where to find subject headings to use in the catalog is given below.

The Library of Congress has a Web site where you can search for subject headings. When you put in a search term, the results will list terms in a table. Those with a red button marked, "Authorized and references" are terms that the Library of Congress uses in subject catalogs. Clicking the button may show more specific ("narrower") terms.

Fig. 1. The catalog search

You may have to do several searches to find books that might be pertinent to your subject.

If you live in the Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service (CCRLS) district, you may also access the catalog online at your local public library. In addition to the books in the Chemeketa College Library, the catalog also contains the collections of the 17 public libraries located in the regional library district, and can pass your search through to Summit (see below).

Summit

Chemeketa students registered for credit may use Summit, the Orbis Cascade Alliance catalog, to request items from 34 member libraries in Oregon and Washington. Summit uses a search called WorldCat. Authorized users have access to all of the material in the Chemeketa Community College library, plus about 28 million items in Summit. Chemeketa users may request items using their student number and have them sent to Chemeketa, or they may set up a Visiting Patron account at another Alliance library.

Summit: http://summit.worldcat.org/
Summit Help: http://www.oclc.org/worldcatlocal/help/default.htm
Libraries & Map: http://orbiscascade.org/map/

Article databases & indexes

These databases may be used to find articles relating to your topic. All the electronic databases listed in this section may be accessed by going to the library's Database Page. If you are accessing the databases from a computer not on the Chemeketa Community College network, you will need your My Chemeketa user name and six-digit password.

Gale Academic OneFile: Index to over 10,000 publications, many peer-reviewed, with numerous articles in full text.
Informe: Full text of nearly 500 Spanish-language periodicals, including both peer-reviewed journals and popular magazines.
HLAS: HLAS (Handbook of Latin American Studies) is edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Scholarly "works reviewed include books, journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers in the disciplines of Anthropology (including Archaeology, Ethnohistory and Ethnology), Art, Economics, Geography, Government and Politics, History, International Relations, Literature, Music, Philosophy, and Sociology. Starting with Volume 54, the Handbook also includes a section on Electronic Resources for Latin American studies." Annotations (abstracts) are about a year behind. Does not include full text.

Internet Sites

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