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UNM GENERAL LIBRARY
Children's Literature |
Library Specialist
Deborah Cole
decole@unm.edu
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- LIBROS
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is the online catalog of the UNM General Library. It provides access to books and journals owned by the UNM Libraries and New Mexico member institutions. Parts of the library's collection must still be accessed using the traditional card catalog. For materials not located in LIBROS contact InterLibrary Loan.
SPECIALIZED DATABASES:
Remote access is available to UNM students, staff, and faculty.
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Dissertation Abstracts UNM only
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indexes dissertations and theses for all subject areas
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Education Abstracts UNM only
- indexes and abstracts articles in over 550 leading periodicals in the field of education. Covers primarily English langauge periodicals.
- ERIC UNM only
- provides annotated references to both journal articles and non-journal materials including the topics of reading and communication.
- Library Literature UNM only
- contains citations to over 360 sources covering journal articles, books, conference proceedings and more in both English and non-English languages. Coverage is from 1980 to the present
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MLA Bibliography UNM only
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provides extensive coverage of journals on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore.
GENERAL DATABASES:
Remote access is available to UNM students, staff, and faculty for EBSCO, Firstsearch and ProQuest.
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FirstSearch
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a collection of over sixty databases indexing articles, theses, disserations, books, in the arts, education, humanities, social sciences, science, and technology.
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EBSCOHost-Academic
Search FULLTEXT Elite
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abstracts and indexes over 3,500 journals and features full text articles for over 1,200 journals since1990.
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Lexis-Nexis Academic
Universe
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provides full text sources in categories of News, Business, Legal, Medical and Reference.
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Project Muse
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contains full text index to selected humanities and social science journals.
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ProQuest
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indexes over 2,200 multi-disciplinary sources, of which 1,400 are full text. Funded by the New Mexico State Library.
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UnCover
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indexes approximately 17,000 multidisciplinary magazines and journals
published since the fall of 1988.
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The following are selected journals for articles, reviews, etc., about children's literature.
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- CHILD_LIT.
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Discussion site for those interested in the combination of childen and literature, an excellent source for information, ideas, and contacts.
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Directory of Scholarly and Professional
E-Conferences
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A subject-arranged and keyword-searchable text file with descriptions of
groups and instructions for subscribing.
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Directory listing for Children's Literature.
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H-Net: Humanities and Social
Sciences Online
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"H-Net is an interdisciplinary organization of scholars dedicated to developing
the enormous educational potential of the Internet and the World Wide Web".
Includes listings for Discussion
Networks and a Job Guide.
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Subject Specific Resources
General Online Sources
Guides to Local Print Sources
- Children's Book Award Winners: Newberry and Caldecott (Available in Zimmerman)
- Literature Research
- MLA International Bibliography -- search strategies
- Professional Writing Resources
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Library of Congress Call Numbers for children's literatures encompasses various call number areas depending on the subject matter of the book. The following is a sampling of the more specific call numbers related to children's literature. Books for children on history (D's) or science (Q's) are assigned non-literature call numbers and integrated with other materials in those areas. Use LIBROS to locate specific items.
| PZ 5 - 90 |
Juvenile Literature |
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