Finding Books for Your Research
Try exploring the Holy Cross library catalog for books related to your topic. If Holy Cross does not have a book you need, you can use WorldCat to search for books from other libraries and then request these books through Interlibrary Loan.
Search tip: Search for books by either Keywords or Subject Headings. Start with a Keyword search and identify some relevant books. Then look at the subject headings for those books. You can follow the subject heading links in the catalog to find similar books, or you can use the terms in the subject headings to identify other keywords to try.
Examples of Subject Headings:
Social movements -- Chile.
Power (Social sciences) -- Chile.
Chile -- Politics and government -- 1988-
Democracy -- Chile.
Limiting by Language: If you'd like to look for books written in Spanish, you can do this in both the library catalog and in WorldCat. In the library catalog, you can use the language option to the left of your search results. In WorldCat, you can use the language drop-down menu on the search form.
Locating Books
Books at Holy Cross Libraries are arranged by Library of Congress Call Number.
At Dinand, call numbers A through G are on the upper (Mezzanine) level. Call numbers H through Z are on the lower (Ground) level, with a few exceptions. Call numbers beginning with "M" are located in the Music Library and “Q, R, S, T” are in the Science Library.
For research in this class, you'll find that many relevant titles about motion pictures are in the call number range PN1193 to PN1999. You'll find that books about Latin America history are in the call number range F1201 - F3799.Try browsing the call number range F3051-3285 for books about Chilean history, F2701 - F2799 for books about the history of Uruguay, and F2801 - F3021 for books about the history of Argentina.
For more information about Library of Congress Classification, please see the Library of Congress' Classification Outline and check out this tutorial.
Dinand Stacks Map
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Dinand Mezzanine Level |
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Dinand Ground Level |
