English 102 Process Guide Step 7 Searching for Books About Countries and Cultures
Library Catalog This shouldn't be too tough. Just as you did a subject search in the library catalog for your author, you will want now to do a subject search for your country. Just enter the name of your country in the search box. We have a number of series that feature the history and culture of individual countries. Look in particular for titles in the Culture and Customs and Culture Shock! series. We have these for almost every country. If your literary work is set in an earlier time, you might also want to look at a history of your country. Here's how you would formulate your subject search:
Fortunately for you off-campus people, we now have quite a good collection of ebooks that deal with countries and their cultures. If you haven't already done so, you might like to create your free NetLibrary account here: OK, time to do our search in the catalog: By the way, most of the volumes in the Culture and Customs series have been brought in to the Daily Life Online database, which we discussed earlier. To look at it again, click here: Library of Congress Country Studies The wonderful researchers at the Library of Congress have produced an excellent series of books on most countries of the world. We have a few of these, but for online access to the entire series, click on the link below. When the book comes up, you will be provided with a detailed outline, making navigation through the text quite simple. These books contain information on history, culture, marriage, family, social issues, religion, education, etc. Just an outstanding series. Pascal Books Want still more books? Once again, you could borrow from the 9,000,000 books in South Carolina college and university libraries. Here's a link back to our discussion of Pascal Delivers in Step 4:
Headin' Home Let's finish up by taking another cruise through the databases.
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