ENGL 1302 @ NLC Library 

HANDOUTS 

• Library Essentials -
• Using Online Databases -
• Literary Criticism -
• Evaluating websites -  

• Citing Sources - Word PDF   

HINTS:  Having trouble locating criticism of the exact poem?   Try one of these: 

Search for the larger work -- The book where the poem appears.

Search for an identifying characteristic of the author.  This works best when searching a book or e-book. 

     Example:  Search for hispanic AND criticism in the online library catalog.  Then search within the book for information

     about the poet and their writings.   

ACTIVITIES

Use it or Lose it:

Use it or Lose it - Quia Activity

Want books? Use:

ALAMO LIBRARY ONLINE CATALOG

Want articles? Use:

ELECTRONIC DATABASES

Databases by Subject - Literature

INTERNET SITES

SEARCH STRATEGIES

OPTIONS FOR FULL-TEXT - Where is the actual article???

NEED HELP? Contact Us!

Call: (210) 486-5388

Email: nlc-reference@alamo.edu

Library Instructor(s):  Linda Plevak

• The Quest for the Fiction of the Absolute
• Sunday Morning
• Stevens' Mother and Sunday Morning
• Critical Survey of Poetry 
• Masterplots II Poetry Series 
• The Norton Anthology of Poetry 
• 100 Great Poets of the English Language 
• The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer through Frost
• The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Anthologies
• Library Hotlinks - Literature     
  20th Century Poetry (American and English poems)
• The Victorian Web
• Gale - Free Resources - Poets Corner 
• Boolean - AND, OR, NOT
• Field searching - Subject, Author, Title
• Quotation marks for exact phrase
• Truncation - root + variants (*) 
• Database Limiters: date, publication type, type, peer-reviewed, etc.
•  PDF or HTML in database
• A to Z Online Journal Locator
• Interlibrary loans (Get a book or article from another library)