20th Century Literature Research Project

• Check the Reed-Custer High School Library Catalog. Do a keyword search on the title of the work. This will yield materials that highlight the individual work. Then do a keyword search on the author. This will give materials about the author. Pay attention to titles with 800 call numbers. Check in the index and table of contents for information about your title.
• Use Gales Literary Index. Search by title (in quotation marks). Print your entry results. Check the reference shelves for the Gale titles--Contemporary Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism, Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, etc.
• Check the reference section of the library (R 800's). Look at the following titles: Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Literature and Its Times, Masterplots, Dictionary of American Literary Biography, Moulton's, Twentieth Century American Literature, etc.
• Check the cd-rom programs Discovering Authors and Scribner's.
• Check specific internet sites such as the Online Library of Literary Criticism and the New York Times Book Review for a free NYT account.
• Use internet search engines. Use at least three different search engines. Make one a meta.
• Check online databases available from the Reed-Custer High School Media Center page. Search EBSCO,NewsBank, and First Search.
• Check for titles available in other libraries. You may use the Virtual Illinois Catalog available on the Find It Illinois page to search throughout the state of Illinois. Materials may be requested from other libraries using Fossil Ridge Online or Illinet Online.

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