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.
General
- Spanish REF 467.973 D56 El diccionario del español chicano = The dictionary of Chicano Spanish
- REF 973.0468003 Encyclopedia Latina: history, culture, and society in the United States
- REF 973.0468 H628 2003 [and E-book]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
Biography
- [E-book] Great Lives from History: Latinos
- [E-book] Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia
- REF 509.2273 N48 2007 Latinos in science, math, and professions
- REF 700.8968073 Ot2 2007 Latinos in the arts
- [E-book] UXL Hispanic American Reference Library (Chiefly biographical)
Culture
- [E-book] Dictionary of Chicano Folklore
- REF 973.0468003 En14 Encyclopedia of Latino popular culture
- REF 155.82 En1 2006 and [E-book] Encyclopedia of Multicultural Psychology
- REF 306.097 En1 and [E-book] Encyclopedia of World Cultures
- [E-book] Encyclopedia of World Cultures: Supplement
- REF 305.800973 G13 Gale encyclopedia of multicultural America
- REF 973.0468003 AL5 2007 Key terms in Latino/a cultural and literary studies
- REF 394.2603 R81 Traditional festivals : a multicultural encyclopedia
- REF 305.8003 W89 1998 and [E-book] Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life
History
- [E-book] Atlas and survey of Latin American history
- REF 973.03 D56 2003 and [E-book] Dictionary of American History (10 vols.)
- [E-book] Encyclopedia of the Mexican American Civil rights movement
- REF 973.0468 H19 v.2 Handbook of Hispanic cultures in the United States: History
- [E-Book] Historical dictionary of Mexico
- 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.
Literature and Art
- REF 810.9868 K13 Hispanic literature of the United States : a comprehensive reference
- REF 700.8968073 Ot2 2007 Latinos in the arts
- For art see Oxford Art Online (see also image databases)
- Literary biography and criticism are found in Literature Resource Center, a collection of electronic reference books and articles.
Politics
- [E-book] Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics, Volume 2: Hispanic Americans and Native Americans
- [E-book] Encyclopedia of the Mexican American Civil rights movement
Psychology
- REF 155.82 En1 2006 and [E-book] Encyclopedia of Multicultural Psychology
- [E-book] The handbook of Chicana/o psychology and mental health
Miscellaneous
- REF 815.0080920693 V87 Voices of multicultural America : notable speeches delivered by African, Asian, Hispanic, and Native Americans, 1790-1995
Finding Other Books and Audiovisual Materials
Browsing Lists
- Discovery and exploration by the Spanish (All materials)
- Discovery and exploration by the Spanish (E-books)
- History of Spanish America
- Latino identity (All materials)
- Latino Identity (E-books)
- Mexican American history (All materials)
- Mexican American history (E-books)
- Mexican War (E-Books)
- Mexican War
- Electronic books on Mexican Americans
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. Use the Advanced Search to limit your results to e-books, if desired.
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 37 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 the library barcode number from their Chemeketa ID 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://library.chemeketa.edu/instruction/summit.php
- Summit Libraries & Map: http://orbiscascade.org/index/member-map
Subject Headings for Library Catalogs
- Hispanic Americans (-- History, -- Social Conditions, etc.)
- Mexican Americans (-- History, -- Social Conditions, etc.)
- Spain -- Colonies -- America -- Administration
- New Spain -- Colonization
- America -- Discovery and exploration
- America -- History -- To 1810
- Latin America -- History -- To 1600 -- Sources
- Mexican War, 1845-1848
- United States -- History -- War with Mexico, 1845-1848
- United States -- Relations -- Mexico.
- Mexico -- Relations -- United States
- United States -- Boundaries -- Mexico
- Mexico -- Boundaries -- United States
- Mexican-American Border Region
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.
- JSTOR
- JSTOR is an archive of full text journals and is strong in history, economics, literature, the arts, and more.
Internet Sites
- American Experience PBS Series
- The Border - History
- Borderlands Encyclopedia
- Bracero History Archive
- Braceros in Oregon Photograph Collection
- Los Braceros, 1942-1964
- LANIC - Latin American Network Information Center
- Mexican American History Guide
- Mexican-American 1846-1848
- Mexican Americans in the Columbia River Basin (Part of Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Archive)
- U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1848 (PBS)
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Address of this page: http://library.chemeketa.edu/instruction/handouts/CLA201-203.php
Updated: 7 December 2012
