ENG101: Appreciation of Fiction

Library Catalogs

MNLINK--Minnesota Library Information Network
A shared catalog for many Minnesota libraries. Click on Search, then make a selection on the next screen. One option (below the map) provides a search of Minnesota college and university libraries. Use the interlibrary loan button to request a book from another library. Use your bar code number as your username, your last name as a password.

Mankato & St. Peter Public Library (Traverse de Sioux System)
The St. Peter Public Library is brand new, beautiful, and just a few blocks away from campus. If you head down (east) College Ave. and take a left (north) onto Washington, the library is just two blocks from there.

Reference Works

• 50 years of notable books. (REF. Z1035.A1 F54 1996) Coverage is by decade. Contains an author index and title index.
• Good books : a book lover's companion. (REF. Z1035 .G54 1982) Descriptive table of contents. Also has an author index and a brief subject index.
• What to read : the essential guide for reading group members and other book lovers. (REF. Z1035.9 .P4 1994) The table of contents describes the book list topics. Also contains a title index and an author index.

• American decades. (REF. E169.12 .A419 1994) Each volume covers a different decade. Within each volume, look under 'Education' and 'Media' for information on books, publishing, literacy, and reading.
• St. James encyclopedia of popular culture. (REF. E169.1 .S764 2000) Use the subject index (in the last volume) to look up your topic. You may want to try 'Publishers,' 'Magazines,' 'Novelists,' etc.
• History of the mass media in the United States : an encyclopedia. (REF. P92.U5 H55 1998) Covers books, publishing, etc.

• Adult literacy/illiteracy in the United States : a handbook for reference and research. (REF. LC151 .C64 1988) While this does not have current information, it contains some very useful historical statistics.
• Encyclopedia of language and education. (REF. P40.8 .E53 1997) Volume two covers literacy. In section one of volume 2, reading is discussed.

• The Bookman's glossary. (REF. Z118 .B75 1975)
• An encyclopedia of the book; terms used in paper-making, printing, bookbinding and publishing. (REF. Z118 .G55)

Electronic Resources

JSTOR
JSTOR is an archival database and does not include current journal issues, but provides complete full-text back files for 78 journals from more than 15 academic disciplines. All journals are fully searchable or are available for browsing.

Lexis-Nexis
LexisNexis is a full text web-accessible database service that is particularly strong in the areas of current news, legal information, and business information. It is a vast resource, with over a billion documents already available and over nine million new documents added weekly.

MLA
This most important ongoing bibliography for literature and linguistics is available for the years 1963 to the present in an electronically searchable format.

Project Muse
Project Muse provides full text electronic access to over 40 scholarly journals in humanities, the social sciences, and mathematics. This joint venture comes from the Johns Hopkins University Press & the Milton S. Eisenhower Library.

Web Sites of Interest

• AskERIC (http://www.askeric.org/) - links to education materials, information about libraries, literacy. From the Department of Education.

• Book Culture Web Sites Compiled by Barbara Fister.

• Center for Literacy Studies (http://cls.coe.utk.edu/)

• Literacy Connection (http://www.reading.org/links/index.html)

• Literacy Online (http://www.literacyonline.org/)

Citing Your Sources

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