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Night Elie Wiesel's Memoir of the Holocaust Selected Resources |
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| Find Reference Books | Find Books to Check Out | Find Articles | Find Web Sites | Cite Your Sources | ||||
| FIND REFERENCE BOOKS |
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The books listed below will provide you with basic historical information about the Holocaust, the Nazi extermination of European Jews and others during World War II; biographical information about Elie Wiesel; and crtical analysis of his acclaimed memoir, Night, as well as his other literary and nonfiction writings.
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| The Holocaust |
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| Encyclopedia Judaica | ref DS 102.8 .E5 | |
| Encyclopedia of the Holocaust | ref D 804.25 .E53 2000 | |
| Great Events from History: Worldwide Twentieth Century Series | ref D 421 .G7 | |
| The Holocaust Encyclopedia | ref D 804.25 .H66 2001 | |
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Biography
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| Contemporary Authors. New Revision. Volume 65 | biography ref Z 1224 .C58 | |
| Current Biography Yearbook. 1986 | biography ref CT 100. C8 1986 | |
| Dictionary of World Biography: the 20th Century.Volume 9 | biography ref CT 104. D54 | |
| Encyclopedia of World Biography. Volume 16 | biography ref CT 103 .E56 1998 | |
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Literary Criticism
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| American Ethnic Writers. Volume 2 | ref PS 153 .M56 A414 2000 | |
| Masterplots. Revised Second Edition. Volume 8 | ref PN 44 .M372 1996 | |
| Novels for Students. Volume 4 | ref E 184 .J3 J3355 1993 | |
| FIND BOOKS TO CHECK OUT |
| The Library’s online catalog, called Voyager, indexes books, pamphlets, and other material by subject, author, title, keyword, and call number. To search Voyager, type in your search term, then select the type of search from the pull-down menu. |
| Holocaust memoir | [Keyword Search] | |
| Holocaust autobiography | [Keyword Search] | |
| Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature | [Subject Search] | |
| Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives | [Subject Search] | |
| Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Psychological aspects | [Subject Search] |
| Since LBCC Library has a partnership agreement with CSULB, you may check out books from the University Library. To identify books, search CSULB's online catalog, called Coast, which is accessible over the Web at http://coast.library.csulb.edu/. |
| FIND ESSAYS AND ARTICLES |
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The databases that are perhaps the most useful for your assignment are ProQuest and Literature Resource Center. To access the Library’s online databases, first point your browser to the Library’s homepage at http://lib.lbcc.edu. Click on the button labeled "Articles and Databases." You will see a list of databases available for searching. Click on the database you want to search. If you are accessing the databases remotely from your home or office, you will be prompted for a user name and password. You may obtain a list of the current user names and passwords from a librarian at the Reference Desk. |
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ProQuest |
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| ProQuest covers literature published in popular and scholarly periodicals. The basic search allows you to search for keywords and combine keywords with the following connecting words (known as Boolean operators): AND, OR, NOT. |
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Sample basic search |
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| Holocaust and Jewish and narrative | ||||||||||||||||||
The guided search allows you to use fields to focus your search on a specific piece of information. Sample fields are subject, author, and publication name. |
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| Holocaust | [Subject] | |||||||||||||||||
| Wiesel, Elie | [Personal Name] | |||||||||||||||||
FIND WEB SITES Some useful Internet sites, related to history, are accessible from the Library's homepage at http://lib.lbcc.edu. Click on "Websites," then click on "History." Librarians' Index to the Internet (LII) is an annotated subject directory of Internet Resources. To identify relevant resources, access this site at URL http://www.lii.org, then type in your search. A sample search follows:
Google is a powerful search engine, used to search 2 billion Web pages. To access Google, go to http://www.google.com. To enter a query, type in descriptive words and press "enter," or click on the Google search button. Since Google is designed to retrieve pages that include all of your research terms, there is no need to include "and" between them. Following is a sample Google search: |
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| Holocaust Jewish memoir |
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| When selecting additional Web sites for research, consult Thinking Critically about Discipline-based WWW Resources. This page, authored by UCLA Librarian Esther Grassian, presents an excellent set of criteria for evaluating the authority and reliability of Web sites. |
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| CITE YOUR SOURCES |
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| Remember to list the sources used in your research in a bibliography or works-cited page following a documentation style, such as MLA (Modern Language Association) or APA (American Psychological Association). The most up-to-date guides for citing Web pages and other electronic sources in footnotes and bibliographies are on the Web, and they are accessible from the Library's homepage at http://lib.lbcc.edu. Click on "Websites," then click on "Citation Guides." |
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| Find Reference Books | Find Books to Check Out | Find Articles | Find Web Sites | Cite Your Sources | ||||
E-mail questions and comments to mwhite@lbcc.edu
Monica White, Liberal Arts Campus Library
http://lib.lbcc.edu/white/orientations/wiesel.html
Last updated: March 24, 2007
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