Library & Archives

I am available to assist with your research throughout the academic year.  If you would like to arrange for an individual research consultation, please e-mail me with a requested date and time, and a brief description of your research interest.

View the list of new books purchased or on order for the program.

Please click on this bookbag to see new books that have recently arrived or are on order.

When you are looking for definitions or if you are not familiar with a subject, reference works such as dictionaries and encyclopedias become invaluable because they contain relatively short, authoritative articles. These articles lay out the parameters of a topic and can assist you in providing a specific focus. Often such articles are accompanied by lists of readings or bibliographies which allow you to explore the topic further. All of the resources listed below link either to the library catalogue record for each book or to an open-access website.

Literary and film studies

Cambridge companion to the Italian novel. 2003. Print.

History of Italian cinema. 2009. Print.

Italian film directors. 2010. Print.

Italian women writers from the Renaissance to the present. 1996. Print.

Manuale critico-bibliografico per lo studio della letteratura italiana. 1994. Print.

Oxford companion to Italian literature. 2002. Print.

Biographies

Dizionario biografico degli italiani. Website. Open access.

Enciclopedia biografica universale. Website. Open access.

When you are looking for definitions, or if you are not familiar with a specific subject, reference works such as dictionaries and encyclopedias become invaluable because they contain relatively short, authoritative articles. These articles often lay out the parameters of a subject and can assist you in trying to narrow your topic. Often such articles are accompanied by lists of readings (bibliographies) which allow you to explore the topic further. All of the resources listed below link either to the library catalogue record for each book or to an open-access website.

Style manuals

Manual de estilo. 2008. 2. ed. Print.

Dictionaries

Diccionario de americanismos. 2010. Print.

Nueva gramática de la lengua española. 2009. 2 vols. Print.

Encyclopedias: Latin America

Early Spanish American narrative. 2004. Print.

Enciclopedia hispánica. 1992-93. 18 volumes. Print.

Encyclopedia of contemporary Latin American and Caribbean cultures. 2000. Online and print.

Latin American women writers: an encyclopedia. 2008. Print.

Encyclopedias: Spain

Centro virtual Cervantes. Website. Open access.

Enciclopedia hispánica. 1992. Print.

Encyclopedia of contemporary Spanish culture. 2002. Online and print.

The Feminist encyclopedia of Spanish literature. 2002. Print.

Spanish American studies

PC 4861-4971 Spanish language (including Spanish America)
PQ 7061-8560 History and criticism of Spanish American literature, arranged by country and era, and works of individual authors by era.
F 1201-3799, Spanish American history, arranged by country and era.

We also get major newspapers like the Globe and Mail and the New York Times, the latter in text, historical newspaper and digital microfilm editions.

The intent of the citation process is to list a resource that you utilized, such as a book, article or website, in an open and transparent way that makes it easy to locate. Thus the citation for a book normally gives such key attributes as:

• title,  author, place of publication, publisher, date, and page number.

For journals, you would give:

• journal title, article title, author, volume number, issue number, date, and page numbers. Note that you do not have to list the place of publication.

For government publications, you would list the document in terms of the agency that created it, e.g.:

• the country, state or province, the ministry, department and/or committee, and so on.

In general, with these kinds of publications, the more bibliographic detail you can provide, the better. The same is true of local or "alternative" publications as well as archival materials, all of which are frequently hard to locate in library collections.