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Books
The Library uses the Library of Congress shelving arrangement.
Select areas:
PE: Philology and Linguistics (English)	PN: Literary history and collections
PR: English literature
PS: American literature

Basic Reference Sources	Location
Theatre
American Women Writers: A Critical Reference from Colonial Times to Present
Book Review Digest Plus 1983+	Also print edition, REF A13 .B66 V.1 1905+
Oxford English Dictionary	Also print editions, REF PE1625 087
Collected Letters of William B. Yeats
Facts on File bibliography of American fiction through 1865	REF Z1231 .F4 B46 1994
Facts on File bibliography of American fiction, 1866-1918	REF Z1231 .F4 B46 1994
Contemporary authors	REF PN771 .C59
Contemporary Literature Criticism	REF PN771 .C59
Contemporary Novelists	Electronic
Contemporary Poets	Electronic
Dictionary of Literary Bibliography	REF PN41 .D43
Gothic Literature: A Gale Critical Companion
Major 21st-Century Writers
Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature
Reference Guide to Short Fiction
Reference Guide to World Literature
Twentieth-Century literary criticism	REF PN771 .C58x
Reference guide to English Literature	REF PR106 .R34 1991
Writers Directory 2007

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Select PC Indexes and Databases
American Humanities Index	An index of over 700 scholarly and creative English language literary journals
MLA International Bibliography(via EBSCO)	The leading annual bibliography of books and articles on modern languages, and literatures, linguistics, folklore, and other related topics. This electronic version indexes books, essay, collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies.
Literary Reference Center (EBSCO)	A comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day.
Literature Resource Center (Gale)	The Literature Resource Center combines the contents of reference works, such as Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography in a single online service. Try the guided tour
Linguistics and Language behavior Abstracts	Database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics.
General
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography	Oxford DNB -50,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, format he earliest times to the year 2001
Women Writers Online	A full-text database of pre-Victorian women's writings.
Academic Search Premier	Indexes and links to actual articles in major scholarly journals including literary and related disciplines

Associations

Modern Language Association

Writing Guides	Location
MLA Guidelines for citing the Web	Modern Language Association
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers	REF LB2369 .G53 2001. 6th Ed.
Chicago Manual of Style	On Permanent Reserve at the Circulation Desk
APA Online	A portion of the Publication Manual Online
Citing Sources
Other guides on the Internet
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association	Print Copies are available REF B76.7 .P83 2001 and Circulation Desk Reserves

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