First Year English

Reinventing Literary History

The Legacy of the Mediterranean   |   The Americas   |   Women and Culture

Personal Librarians
Lois Coleman
Jenna Freedman
Vani Natarajan
Torie Quiñonez
Megan Wacha
Heidi Winston

 

 

Databases for Finding Articles

Find Articles

Search across all the Columbia University Libraries databases (full text search only):

 

 

Reference Sources

For background information on your topic, start with reference works, like encyclopedias. The Barnard First-Year Foundations website, Reinventing Literary History, lists many useful resources.

Online

In Print
  • Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece and Rome DE59 .C55 1988
  • Dictionary of Literary Themes and Motifs PN43 .D48 1988
  • Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory PN98 .W64 E53 1997
  • Encyclopedia of Literary Modernism PN56 .M54 E53 2003
  • Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance PS153 .N5 A24 2003
  • Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies E45 .E53 1993   
  • Encyclopedia of the Victorian World  DA550 .E53 2004
  • Macmillan Encyclopedia of World Slavery HT861 .M24 1998
  • Medieval England: an Encyclopedia DA129 .M43 1998
  • Medieval France: an Encyclopedia DC33.2 .M44 1995
  • Medieval Italy: an Encyclopedia DG443 .M43 2004
  • Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales PN3437 .O94 2000
  • Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: an Encyclopedia HQ1147 .E85 W66 2006

Finding Books

Start here: CLIO
The online catalog of the Columbia University Libraries, including Barnard Library, but excluding Teachers College and the Law Library

CLIO Search Tips:

  • Use Boolean logic (operators like and, or, not) to combine terms in a search
  • Use quotes to search multiple words as a phrase (example: "pathetic fallacy," "suspension of disbelief")
  • Use the question mark to truncate your search terms, searching for variants on a word stem (example: feminis? searches feminist, feminism, feminists)

 

New York Public Library Catalog
for the research libraries as well as the local branches of NYPL:
     The Schwarzman Building (Main Branch): 5th Ave. and 42nd St., 212-930-0830
     The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: Malcolm X Blvd. and 135th St, 212-491-2200
     Library for the Performing Arts: 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, 212-870-1630
     Morningside Heights Branch Library: Broadway and 113th Street, 212-864-2530
     Mid-Manhattan Library: 5th Ave. and 40th St, 212-340-0833

WorldCat: Searches libraries worldwide

 

RefWorks

  • Bibliographic software allows you to store your references conveniently, and cite them in papers and bibliographies using any citation style you choose. 
  • For help, see the Barnard Library RefWorks Guide.

 

More Help...


Resources for individual classes

Professor Auran: feedback form
Professor Richard: Presentation
Professor Rosenthal: Presentation
Professor Lynn: slides
Professor Mehta: Slides (Spring 2012), Handout
Professor Schor-Haim: Handout, RefWorks Presentation, RefWorks Handout
Professor Traps, 1:10 class: feedback form
Professor Fleischer: slides

 

 


 

Subject Code: 
ENG1201