Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month

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Hispanic Heritage Resources in LBCC Library Collection

Reference works || Biographical reference works || Literary reference works
New Books & E-books || Videos & DVDs || Web-based databases 
Music CDs || Internet resources

Searching for Resources on Hispanic Heritage

The LBCC Library catalog, called Voyager, is Web-based and searchable via the Internet. To access Voyager, first go the Library's homepage at http://lib.lbcc.edu, then click on the button labeled "Books."

Use a keyword or subject search. For example, you may use keywords, such as these:

Cesar Chavez

Teatro Campesino

Aztlan

Mayan arts

The Library of Congress Classification Numbers (or call numbers) are not inclusive of all the books on this subject in LBCC Library, as variations in the focus of books result in their being cataloged in different areas, according to the the Library of Congress Classification System.

For example, a search on the subject, Hispanic heritage, will show books belonging to the following call number classifications:

Call Number Subject

L Education

R Medicine

HM Sociology

BL-BX Religion

N Fine arts

The following is not a comprehensive of the Library's resources on Hispanic history. It is but a small sampling of the rich resources that LBCC Library offers. Please search the online catalog for the campus location and the availability of items.

Music CDs

Artist Title

Blades, Rubén Agua de Luna. Tiempos

D'Rivera, Paquito Tropicana Nights

Estefan, Gloria Greatest Hits,Vol. II. Mi Tierra

Gil, Gilberto Acoustic

Gillespie, Dizzy and Chano Pozo Ken Burns Jazz

Los Lobos Just Another Band from L.A. The Neighborhood. La Postola y el Corazon

Nascimento, Milton Clube de Esquina. Encontros E Despedidas

No Doubt Tragic Kingdom

Police Zenyatta Mondatta

Puente, Tito The Very Best of Tito Puente and Vicentico Valdés. Pare Cochero

Sanchez, Poncho Conga Blue. Fuerte. La Familia. Keeper of the Flame

Sandoval, Arturo Danzon. Dream Come True. Flight to Freedom. Ronnie Scott's Jazz House

Selena Mis Mejores Canciones. Todos Mis Exitos

Simon, Paul The Rhythm of the Saints

Valens, Richie Very Best of Richie Valens

Videos & DVDs

Director Title

Almodovar, Pedro Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Amarel, Suzana Hour of the Star

Arau, Alfonso Like Water for Chocolate

Babenco, Hector Pixote

Barreto, Bruno Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

Bemberg, Maria-Luisa Camila

Buñuel, Luis The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Buñuel, Luis That Obscure Object of Desire

Buñuel, Luis Tristana

Diegues, Carlos Bye, Bye Brazil

Gavaldon, Roberto Macario

Nava, Gregory Arriba: El Norte

Nava, Gregory Selena

Palcy, Euzhan Sugar Cane Alley

Puenzo, Luis The Official Story

Saura, Carlos Cria

Saura, Carlos Peppermint Frappe

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New Books & E-books

The full text of electronic books and reference materials is now available from links in Voyager, the Library's online catalog. There are about 4,500 e-books that can be read online. They are electronic versions of print books, published on a wide range of subjects, and now you can read them in their entirety from your computer.

To find these e-books, try doing a keyword search for "electronic books" (include quotation marks to search any phrase). You can then make your search results sort by title (or author, or publication date) by using the "SORT BY" drop-down menu.

To find an e-book on a specific topic, try a keyword search, along with +"electronic books". Be sure to include the quotation marks and plus sign. This will ensure that your keyword is included in the results. Here is an example:

+Mexico +"electronic books"

Call Number Title

E 184 .S75 B674 1998 Borderless Borders: U.S. Latinos, Latin Americans, and the Paradox of Interdependence

E 184.M5 P67 2000 Crowding Out Latinos: Mexican Americans in the Public Consciousuess

E 184 .S75 E84 Ethnic Identity: Formation and Transmission Among Hispanics and Other Minorities

E 184 .S75 L368 1988 Latinos and the Political System

E 184 .S75 L356 1997 Latino Cultural Citizenship: Claiming Identity, Space, and Rights

E 184 .S75 P87 1997 Pursuing Power: Latinos and the Political System

F 392. L62 G55 1994 We Fed Them Cactus / Fabiola Cabeza de Baca

F 394 .C83 N37 1998 Cristal Experiment: A Chicano Struggle for Community Control

F 755 .M5 B34 1995 Dos Mundos: Rural Mexican Americans, Another America

F 790 .M5 G65 1994 Roots of Chicano Politics, 1600-1940

F 787 .S18 1995 Border Correspondent: Selected Writings

F 790 .M5 C49 1984 Lost Land: The Chicano Image of the Southwest

F 805 .M5 N67 1992 Hispano Homeland

F 1230 .H56 1991 Encomenderos of New Spain, 1521-1555

F 1234 .N495 1999 Mexico in the 1940s: Moderniity, Politics, and Corruption

F 1235.5 .A2 C35 1995 Mexican Political Biographies, 1935-1993

F 1236 .H67 1992 Hope and Frustration: Interview with Leader's of Mexico's Political Opposition

F 1371 .K67 2002 Waking the Dictator: Veracruz, the Struggle for Federalism and the Mexican Revolution, 1870-1927

F 1408.3 .S73 1998 Riddle of Cantinflas: Essays on Hispanic Popular Culture

F 1415 .R44 1998 Regional Mechanisms and International Security in Latin America

F 1418 .U686 1999 United States-Latin American Relations, 1850-1903

F 1436 .B37 1998 As If Jesus Walked on Earth: Cardenismo, Sonora, and the Mexican Revolution

GR 111 .S65 E87 1990 Folklore of Spain in the American Southwest

HD 8073 .C67 G37 1995 Memories of Chicano History

HD 8081 .M6 B673 1998 Border Crossings: Mexican and Mexican-American Workers

HD 8081 .M6 V37 1999 Proletarian of the North: a History of Mexican Industrial Workers in Detroit and the Midwest, 1917-1933

HN 79 .T42 R57 Living on the Edge of America: At Home on the Texas-Mexico Border

HV 8148 .L53 E73 Race, Police, and the Making of a Political Identify: Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department

LC 2674 .N6 R62 2001 Remaining and Becoming: Cultural Crosscurrents in an Hispano School

LC 2683 .D66 1997 Other Struggles for Equal Schools: Mexican Americans During the Civil Rights Era

PQ 7078.5 .N6 M49 1996 Speaking for Themselves: Neomexicano Cultural Identity and the Spanish-Language Press, 1880-1920

PQ 7081 .3 .K56 1999 King David's Harp: Autobiographical Essays by Jewish Latin American Writers

PS 153 .H56 C47 1997 Show and Tell: Identity as Performance in U.S. Latina/o Fiction

PS 153 .M4 G87 1995 Rethinking the Borderlands: Between Chicano Culture and Legal Discourse

PS 153 .M56 T43 1996 Teaching American Ethnic Literatures

PS 3557 .I296 M3 1993 Magic of Blood

PS 3560 .I55 C57 Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child

PS 3563 .O73 Z472 1993 Nepantla: Essays from the Land in the Middle

PS 3568 .I587 C87 1999 Curtain of Trees: Stories

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Selected Reference Works

Call Number Title

Ref E 184 .A1 A63448 1997
American Immigrant Cultures. 2 vols.

Ref E 184 .A1 C47 2000 Civil Rights in the United States. 2 vols.

Ref E 184 .A1 E574 2000 Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics. 2 vols.

Ref E 184 .A1 G14 1995 The Encyclopedia of Multicultural America. 2 vols.

Ref E 184 .A1 M544 1997 Minority Organizations: A National Directory

Ref E 184 .A1 R78 1998 Racial and Ethnic Diversity

Ref E 184 .S75 C49 1995 Chronology of Hispanic-American History

Ref E 184 .S75 H365 Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States. 4 vols.

Ref E 184 .S75 H557 1997 The Hispanic-American Almanac

Ref E 184 .S75 H5655 2003 Hispanic Americans: A Statistical Sourcebook

Ref E 184 .S75 K36 1997 Hispanic Firsts: 500 Years of Extraordinary Achievement

Ref E 184 .S75 N69 1994 Everything You Need to Know About Latino History

Ref E 184 .S75 O287 2001 Atlas of Hispanic-American History

Ref F 859 .L84 P58 1997 Los Angeles A to Z: An Encyclopedia of the City and County

Ref F 1210 .E63 1997 Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society, and Culture. 2 vols.

Ref F 1406 .E52 Encyclopedia of Latin America

Ref F 1406 .E53 1996 Latin American History and Culture. 5 vols.

Ref G 1046 .E15 P3 1998 Past Worlds: The Times Atlas of Archaeology

Ref GN 307.E52 1996 Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology

Ref GN 315 .P417 Peoples of the Earth: Mexico and Central America. Vol. 4

Ref GN 333 .W67 1998 Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life. Vol. 2

Ref GN 496.C37 1996 Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations

Ref GN 496 .L48 1994 Ethnic Relations: A Cross Cultural Encyclopedia

Ref Desk HA 202 .S7 2002 Statistical Abstract of the United States

Ref Desk HA 203 .H57 1993 Hispanic Americans Today

Ref HF 3066 .M495 1994 Mexico Business: the Portable Ency. for Doing Business in Mexico

Ref HF 3066 .W74 1994 The Complete Guide to Doing Business in Mexico

Ref HN 57 .E58 1993 Encyclopedia of American Social History

Ref PC 4640 .R32 1997 Spanish-English English-Spanish Dictionary

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Selected Biographical Reference Works

Call Number
Title

Bio Ref E 184 .S75 D53 1996 Dictionary of Hispanic Biography

Bio Ref E 184 .S75 H36 1992 Hispanic America: Freeing the Free, Honoring Heroes

Bio Ref E 184 .S75 M435 1997 Notable Latino Americans

Bio Ref E 184 .S75 N68 1998 Notable Hispanic American Women. 2 vols.

Bio Ref E 184 .S75 W53 1995 Who's Who Among Hispanic Americans

Selected Literary Reference Works

Call Number
Title

Ref E 184 .S75 H365 Handbook of Hispanic Culture in the U.S.: Literature & Art. Vol. 1

Ref PQ 6039 .H5 1994 Hispanic Literature. 4 vols.

Ref PQ 7081 .A1 E56 2000 Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature

Ref PQ 7081 .A1 L37 2002 Latin American Writers.

Ref PQ 7081 .A1 M29 1994 Masterpieces of Latino Literature

Ref PQ 7081.3 .H58 1991 Hispanic Writers. 3 vols.

Ref PQ 7081 .M625 1999 World Literature and Its Times. Latin American Literature and Its Time.

Ref PS 153 .M4 C485 1999 Dictionary of Literary Biography: Chicano Writers. Vol. 209

Ref PS 153 .M56 A414 2000 American Ethnic Writers. 2 vols.

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Selected Electronic Resources

Web-based Databases

The following online databases are accessible only with a user ID and password. Please ask for the list of passwords at the Reference Desk.

To search the magazine/newspaper databases listed on the LBCC Library homepage (Newsbank, Proquest, Eric, and Ethnic Newswatch), use words appropriate to the discipline and subfield, including :

Major disciplines in the social sciences (e.g., sociology, anthropology, psychology, etc.)

Subfield areas (e.g., world history, American history, Latino history, etc.)

Names of experts in the field

Names of organizations or institutions involved in the field

Check the Library of Congress Subject Headings set of volumes (the five big red books on the counter by the Reference Desk), in dictionaries, thesauri, and subject-related books for the right words to use

Biography Resource Center
Provides access to biographical information, full-text articles, and Web sites.

ERIC database
Provide citations and abstracts to education-related articles, reports, and conference proceedings.

Encyclopaedia Britannica
Consists of a fully searchable collection of authoritative references, including Britannica's latest article database with hundreds of articles not found in the print edition, along with Web links.

Ethnic Newswatch
Provides a comprehensive, full-text database of the newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press. Ethnic NewsWatch encompasses more than 450,000 full-text articles from over 200 publications. The text is available in English or Spanish (subscription to begin in the near future).

¡Informe!
Provides indexing, full-text, and images of the most popular Spanish language magazines and pamphlets.

Hispanic-American Experience on File
Provides full-text coverage of Latin American and Caribbean subject matter. The database includes an overview of the rapid expansion of Hispanic immigration (subscription to begin in the near future).

Literature Resource Center
Provides the full text of biographical and critical information about authors, literary movements, themes, and genres.

NewsBank
Provides a full-text news resource, containing comprehensive coverage of current issues and events from over 500 United States and Canadian newspapers, news sources, and domestic and international news wires.

ProQuest
Provides citations, abstracts, and selected full-text articles from over 1,500 scholarly and general-interest periodicals-many of them full-text-covering all major fields of study in the humanities, social sciences, and science and technology.

Internet Resources

To search for Hispanic history resources on the Internet, use a search engine such as Altavista (http://www.altavista.com) when you know the exact terms or names of your topic.

Enter two or more related words, each with a + in front of it, to specify your search.

Search for phrases by putting double quotes around two or more words, for example:

+"chicano literature"+california
+"cesar chavez"+"united farmworkers"

Put an asterisk * after the root word to find plurals or other words beginning with the root, for example:

comput*

will find articles with the words computer, computers, computing.

Use subject directories, such as Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com), or Internet indexes, such as Librarian's Index to the Internet (http://www.lii.org), for browsing or when you are not sure of the terms or names. Indexes lead you from the general subject to the specific subtopic.

Selected Web Sites Related to Hispanic Heritage

CLNET Homepage: http://clnet.ucr.edu

The Azteca Web Page: http://www.azteca.net/aztec/

UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/csrc/

Chicana and Chicano Studies Program. UNM: http://www.unm.edu/~chicanos/

Chicano Research Library, UCLA: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/csrc/library/

Chicano Studies Research Collection, ASU: http://www.asu.edu/lib/archives/chicano.htm

REFORMA: http://www.reforma.org

Nahuatl Homepage: http://www.mrs.umn.edu/academic/history/Nahuatl/index.htm

Ethnic Studies Library, UC Berkeley: http://eslibrary.berkeley.edu

Chicano Library Center at San Jose State: http://www.library.sjsu.edu/dept/chicano/research.htm

National Association for Chicana/Chicano Studies: http://naccs.org

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Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month

Hispanic Heritage Resources in LBCC Library Collection

Written by Kim Barclay and Monica White

August 23, 2006

	Cesar Chavez
	Teatro Campesino
	Aztlan
	Mayan arts

	Call Number		Subject
	L		Education
	R		Medicine
	HM		Sociology
	BL-BX		Religion
	N		Fine arts

Music CDs
Artist	Title
Blades, Rubén	Agua de Luna. Tiempos
D'Rivera, Paquito	Tropicana Nights
Estefan, Gloria	Greatest Hits,Vol. II. Mi Tierra
Gil, Gilberto	Acoustic
Gillespie, Dizzy and Chano Pozo	Ken Burns Jazz
Los Lobos	Just Another Band from L.A. The Neighborhood. La Postola y el Corazon
Nascimento, Milton	Clube de Esquina. Encontros E Despedidas
No Doubt	Tragic Kingdom
Police	Zenyatta Mondatta
Puente, Tito	The Very Best of Tito Puente and Vicentico Valdés. Pare Cochero
Sanchez, Poncho	Conga Blue. Fuerte. La Familia. Keeper of the Flame
Sandoval, Arturo	Danzon. Dream Come True. Flight to Freedom. Ronnie Scott's Jazz House
Selena	Mis Mejores Canciones. Todos Mis Exitos
Simon, Paul	The Rhythm of the Saints
Valens, Richie	Very Best of Richie Valens

	Videos & DVDs
	Director	Title
	Almodovar, Pedro	Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
	Amarel, Suzana	Hour of the Star
	Arau, Alfonso	Like Water for Chocolate
	Babenco, Hector	Pixote
	Barreto, Bruno	Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
	Bemberg, Maria-Luisa	Camila
	Buñuel, Luis	The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
	Buñuel, Luis	That Obscure Object of Desire
	Buñuel, Luis	Tristana
	Diegues, Carlos	Bye, Bye Brazil
	Gavaldon, Roberto	Macario
	Nava, Gregory	Arriba: El Norte
	Nava, Gregory	Selena
	Palcy, Euzhan	Sugar Cane Alley
	Puenzo, Luis	The Official Story
	Saura, Carlos	Cria
	Saura, Carlos	Peppermint Frappe

New Books & E-books
The full text of electronic books and reference materials is now available from links in Voyager, the Library's online catalog. There are about 4,500 e-books that can be read online. They are electronic versions of print books, published on a wide range of subjects, and now you can read them in their entirety from your computer. To find these e-books, try doing a keyword search for "electronic books" (include quotation marks to search any phrase). You can then make your search results sort by title (or author, or publication date) by using the "SORT BY" drop-down menu. To find an e-book on a specific topic, try a keyword search, along with +"electronic books". Be sure to include the quotation marks and plus sign. This will ensure that your keyword is included in the results. Here is an example: +Mexico +"electronic books"
Call Number	Title
E 184 .S75 B674 1998	Borderless Borders: U.S. Latinos, Latin Americans, and the Paradox of Interdependence
E 184.M5 P67 2000	Crowding Out Latinos: Mexican Americans in the Public Consciousuess
E 184 .S75 E84	Ethnic Identity: Formation and Transmission Among Hispanics and Other Minorities
E 184 .S75 L368 1988	Latinos and the Political System
E 184 .S75 L356 1997	Latino Cultural Citizenship: Claiming Identity, Space, and Rights
E 184 .S75 P87 1997	Pursuing Power: Latinos and the Political System
F 392. L62 G55 1994	We Fed Them Cactus / Fabiola Cabeza de Baca
F 394 .C83 N37 1998	Cristal Experiment: A Chicano Struggle for Community Control
F 755 .M5 B34 1995	Dos Mundos: Rural Mexican Americans, Another America
F 790 .M5 G65 1994	Roots of Chicano Politics, 1600-1940
F 787 .S18 1995	Border Correspondent: Selected Writings
F 790 .M5 C49 1984	Lost Land: The Chicano Image of the Southwest
F 805 .M5 N67 1992	Hispano Homeland
F 1230 .H56 1991	Encomenderos of New Spain, 1521-1555
F 1234 .N495 1999	Mexico in the 1940s: Moderniity, Politics, and Corruption
F 1235.5 .A2 C35 1995	Mexican Political Biographies, 1935-1993
F 1236 .H67 1992	Hope and Frustration: Interview with Leader's of Mexico's Political Opposition
F 1371 .K67 2002	Waking the Dictator: Veracruz, the Struggle for Federalism and the Mexican Revolution, 1870-1927
F 1408.3 .S73 1998	Riddle of Cantinflas: Essays on Hispanic Popular Culture
F 1415 .R44 1998	Regional Mechanisms and International Security in Latin America
F 1418 .U686 1999	United States-Latin American Relations, 1850-1903
F 1436 .B37 1998	As If Jesus Walked on Earth: Cardenismo, Sonora, and the Mexican Revolution
GR 111 .S65 E87 1990	Folklore of Spain in the American Southwest
HD 8073 .C67 G37 1995	Memories of Chicano History
HD 8081 .M6 B673 1998	Border Crossings: Mexican and Mexican-American Workers
HD 8081 .M6 V37 1999	Proletarian of the North: a History of Mexican Industrial Workers in Detroit and the Midwest, 1917-1933
HN 79 .T42 R57	Living on the Edge of America: At Home on the Texas-Mexico Border
HV 8148 .L53 E73	Race, Police, and the Making of a Political Identify: Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department
LC 2674 .N6 R62 2001	Remaining and Becoming: Cultural Crosscurrents in an Hispano School
LC 2683 .D66 1997	Other Struggles for Equal Schools: Mexican Americans During the Civil Rights Era
PQ 7078.5 .N6 M49 1996	Speaking for Themselves: Neomexicano Cultural Identity and the Spanish-Language Press, 1880-1920
PQ 7081 .3 .K56 1999	King David's Harp: Autobiographical Essays by Jewish Latin American Writers
PS 153 .H56 C47 1997	Show and Tell: Identity as Performance in U.S. Latina/o Fiction
PS 153 .M4 G87 1995	Rethinking the Borderlands: Between Chicano Culture and Legal Discourse
PS 153 .M56 T43 1996	Teaching American Ethnic Literatures
PS 3557 .I296 M3 1993	Magic of Blood
PS 3560 .I55 C57	Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
PS 3563 .O73 Z472 1993	Nepantla: Essays from the Land in the Middle
PS 3568 .I587 C87 1999	Curtain of Trees: Stories

	Selected Reference Works
Call Number	Title
Ref E 184 .A1 A63448 1997	American Immigrant Cultures. 2 vols.
Ref E 184 .A1 C47 2000	Civil Rights in the United States. 2 vols.
Ref E 184 .A1 E574 2000	Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics. 2 vols.
Ref E 184 .A1 G14 1995	The Encyclopedia of Multicultural America. 2 vols.
Ref E 184 .A1 M544 1997	Minority Organizations: A National Directory
Ref E 184 .A1 R78 1998	Racial and Ethnic Diversity
Ref E 184 .S75 C49 1995	Chronology of Hispanic-American History
Ref E 184 .S75 H365	Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States. 4 vols.
Ref E 184 .S75 H557 1997	The Hispanic-American Almanac
Ref E 184 .S75 H5655 2003	Hispanic Americans: A Statistical Sourcebook
Ref E 184 .S75 K36 1997	Hispanic Firsts: 500 Years of Extraordinary Achievement
Ref E 184 .S75 N69 1994	Everything You Need to Know About Latino History
Ref E 184 .S75 O287 2001	Atlas of Hispanic-American History
Ref F 859 .L84 P58 1997	Los Angeles A to Z: An Encyclopedia of the City and County
Ref F 1210 .E63 1997	Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society, and Culture. 2 vols.
Ref F 1406 .E52	Encyclopedia of Latin America
Ref F 1406 .E53 1996	Latin American History and Culture. 5 vols.
Ref G 1046 .E15 P3 1998	Past Worlds: The Times Atlas of Archaeology
Ref GN 307.E52 1996	Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology
Ref GN 315 .P417	Peoples of the Earth: Mexico and Central America. Vol. 4
Ref GN 333 .W67 1998	Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life. Vol. 2
Ref GN 496.C37 1996	Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations
Ref GN 496 .L48 1994	Ethnic Relations: A Cross Cultural Encyclopedia
Ref Desk HA 202 .S7 2002	Statistical Abstract of the United States
Ref Desk HA 203 .H57 1993	Hispanic Americans Today
Ref HF 3066 .M495 1994	Mexico Business: the Portable Ency. for Doing Business in Mexico
Ref HF 3066 .W74 1994	The Complete Guide to Doing Business in Mexico
Ref HN 57 .E58 1993	Encyclopedia of American Social History
Ref PC 4640 .R32 1997	Spanish-English English-Spanish Dictionary

	Selected Literary Reference Works
Call Number	Title
Ref E 184 .S75 H365	Handbook of Hispanic Culture in the U.S.: Literature & Art. Vol. 1
Ref PQ 6039 .H5 1994	Hispanic Literature. 4 vols.
Ref PQ 7081 .A1 E56 2000	Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature
Ref PQ 7081 .A1 L37 2002	Latin American Writers.
Ref PQ 7081 .A1 M29 1994	Masterpieces of Latino Literature
Ref PQ 7081.3 .H58 1991	Hispanic Writers. 3 vols.
Ref PQ 7081 .M625 1999	World Literature and Its Times. Latin American Literature and Its Time.
Ref PS 153 .M4 C485 1999	Dictionary of Literary Biography: Chicano Writers. Vol. 209
Ref PS 153 .M56 A414 2000	American Ethnic Writers. 2 vols.

Web-based Databases
	The following online databases are accessible only with a user ID and password. Please ask for the list of passwords at the Reference Desk.
	To search the magazine/newspaper databases listed on the LBCC Library homepage (Newsbank, Proquest, Eric, and Ethnic Newswatch), use words appropriate to the discipline and subfield, including :
		Major disciplines in the social sciences (e.g., sociology, anthropology, psychology, etc.)
		Subfield areas (e.g., world history, American history, Latino history, etc.)
		Names of experts in the field
		Names of organizations or institutions involved in the field
		Check the Library of Congress Subject Headings set of volumes (the five big red books on the counter by the Reference Desk), in dictionaries, thesauri, and subject-related books for the right words to use

		Biography Resource Center Provides access to biographical information, full-text articles, and Web sites.
		ERIC database Provide citations and abstracts to education-related articles, reports, and conference proceedings.
		Encyclopaedia Britannica Consists of a fully searchable collection of authoritative references, including Britannica's latest article database with hundreds of articles not found in the print edition, along with Web links.
		Ethnic Newswatch Provides a comprehensive, full-text database of the newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press. Ethnic NewsWatch encompasses more than 450,000 full-text articles from over 200 publications. The text is available in English or Spanish (subscription to begin in the near future).
		¡Informe! Provides indexing, full-text, and images of the most popular Spanish language magazines and pamphlets.
		Hispanic-American Experience on File Provides full-text coverage of Latin American and Caribbean subject matter. The database includes an overview of the rapid expansion of Hispanic immigration (subscription to begin in the near future).
		Literature Resource Center Provides the full text of biographical and critical information about authors, literary movements, themes, and genres.
		NewsBank Provides a full-text news resource, containing comprehensive coverage of current issues and events from over 500 United States and Canadian newspapers, news sources, and domestic and international news wires.
		ProQuest Provides citations, abstracts, and selected full-text articles from over 1,500 scholarly and general-interest periodicals-many of them full-text-covering all major fields of study in the humanities, social sciences, and science and technology.

Internet Resources
	To search for Hispanic history resources on the Internet, use a search engine such as *Altavista* (http://www.altavista.com) when you know the exact terms or names of your topic.
		Enter two or more related words, each with a + in front of it, to specify your search.
		Search for phrases by putting double quotes around two or more words, for example:
			+"chicano literature"+california +"cesar chavez"+"united farmworkers"
		Put an asterisk * after the root word to find plurals or other words beginning with the root, for example:
			comput*
		will find articles with the words computer, computers, computing.
		Use subject directories, such as Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com), or Internet indexes, such as Librarian's Index to the Internet (http://www.lii.org), for browsing or when you are not sure of the terms or names. Indexes lead you from the general subject to the specific subtopic.

		CLNET Homepage: http://clnet.ucr.edu
		The Azteca Web Page: http://www.azteca.net/aztec/
		UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/csrc/
		Chicana and Chicano Studies Program. UNM: http://www.unm.edu/~chicanos/
		Chicano Research Library, UCLA: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/csrc/library/
		Chicano Studies Research Collection, ASU: http://www.asu.edu/lib/archives/chicano.htm
		REFORMA: http://www.reforma.org
		Nahuatl Homepage: http://www.mrs.umn.edu/academic/history/Nahuatl/index.htm
		Ethnic Studies Library, UC Berkeley: http://eslibrary.berkeley.edu
		Chicano Library Center at San Jose State: http://www.library.sjsu.edu/dept/chicano/research.htm
		National Association for Chicana/Chicano Studies: http://naccs.org