ESL 131B Payne: Books

Use the Library Catalog to search for other titles in LPC collections.

Examples of search terms:

• women and art / women artists
• women and science / women scientists
• women "civil war" "united states"
• "Clara Barton"
• women "Harlem Renaissance"

The reference collection includes general and subject dictionaries and encyclopedias, biographies, directories, almanacs, atlases, and other works.

Use reference books for

• background information
• broad overviews
• summaries

Reference books are also good for identifying keywords to use later when searching other resources, such book indexes, the Library's research databases, and the Web.

Reference books cannot be checked out from the library but may be photocopied.

Use the LPC Library Catalog to find other encyclopedias by conducting a keyword or subject search.