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Other Arts and Social Sciences Library staff can answer your more general library queries.
Most Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American resources are held in the Arts and Social Sciences Library.
The Arts and Social Sciences Library classmark scheme shows how the books and journals are arranged.
Some key locations at which core material for students of Hispanic Studies can be found are:
|
Subject |
Classmark range | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Catalan language and literature | PC3801 - PC3975 | Second floor |
| Spanish and Portuguese language | PC4001 - PC5498 | Second floor |
| Spanish, Latin American and Portuguese literature | PQ6001 - PQ9999 | Second floor |
| Spanish history | DP1 - DP402 | First floor |
| Portuguese history | DP501 - DP900 | First floor |
| Latin American history | F1201 - F3700 | First floor |
Books about related subjects can be found at the following locations in the Arts and Social Sciences Library:
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Subject |
Classmark range |
Location |
|
Bibliographies of specific subjects |
Z |
First floor |
|
Cinema and film studies |
PN1993 - PN1999 |
Second floor |
|
Economics |
HC |
First floor |
|
History of art |
N - NX |
Second floor |
|
Linguistics |
P |
Second floor |
|
Literary theory |
PN |
Second floor |
|
Music |
M - MT |
Second floor |
|
Philosphy |
B - BD; BH - BJ |
Second floor |
|
Politics |
JN |
First floor |
|
Theatre |
PN2000 - PN3307 |
Second floor |
|
Theology |
BL - BX |
Second floor |
Recommended textbooks (books in high demand for essays, for example) are kept in the Short Loan Collection (SLC).
Examination papers: sets of past examination papers (bound in years) can be found on the first floor of the Arts and Social Sciences Library, on the shelves next to the pamphlet collection.
These are located on the second floor of the Arts and Social Sciences Library and have a classmark prefix of Video or DVD. Some are for use in the library only; viewing facilities are available in the Arts and Social Sciences Library.
University of Bristol PhD theses are held in the Arts and Social Sciences Library thesis collection, kept in a locked cage on the first floor. They may be consulted within the library. Please ask at the library issue desk if you wish to consult a thesis.
The Arts and Social Sciences Library contains a special collection of rare books.
The Inter-Library Loans (ILL) service can be used to obtain Items not held in print in the University's branch libraries or available online. There is a charge for this service, though it may be possible to obtain an Inter-library loan voucher to pay for this:
MetaLib: your resource gateway provides access to a vast range of online resources, including databases, search engines, subject gateways, and selected Internet resources.
Databases for Hispanic Studies via MetaLib (list with brief details)
This link takes you to the list of databases and other information resources for Hispanic Studies, with brief details displayed against each. Click on the Info icon to display the full details.
The following represent a selection of the quick reference resources of interest to students of Hispanic Studies which are held in the Arts and Social Sciences Library.
|
Title |
Classmark |
|---|---|
|
Year's work in modern language studies |
Serial Z7006.Y4 |
|
Title |
Classmark |
|---|---|
|
Collins Spanish dictionary=Collins diccionario inglés |
PC4640 COL |
|
Redes: diccionario combinatorio del español contemporáneo |
PC4625 RED |
|
Diccionario de uso del español actual CLAVE |
PC4625 DIC |
| Collins Portuguese dictionary, eds. John Whitlam, Victoria Davies, Mike Harland. 2nd ed. Glasgow: HarperCollins, 2001 | PC5333 |
|
Diccionario del cine español |
PN1993.5.S7 DIC |
|
Encyclopedia of contemporary Spanish culture, ed. by Eamonn Rodgers. London: Routledge, 1999 |
DP233.5 ENC |
| Feminist encyclopedia of Spanish literature, ed. by Janet Pérez and Maureen Ihrie. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 2002 | PQ6055 FEM |
| Medieval Iberia: an encyclopedia, E. Michael Gerli, ed. New York: Routledge, 2003 | Oversize DP99 MED |
| Enciclopedia de historia de España, dirigida por Miguel Artola. Madrid: Alianza, 1988 | DP12 ENC |
| Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean cultures, ed. by Daniel Balderston, Mike González and Ana M. López. London: Routledge, 2000 | F1406 ENC |
| Cambridge companion to the Spanish novel: from 1600 to the present, ed. by Harriet Turner and Adelaida López de Martínez. Cambridge: C.U.P., 2003 | PQ6138 CAM |
| Historical dictionary of Portugal, by Douglas L. Wheeler. London: Scarecrow Press, 1993 | DP535 WHE |
This is a list of some useful research resources for Hispanic Studies.
Author, title, date |
Location |
|
American doctoral dissertations 1955-
|
Serial Z 5053.A5
|
| Index of theses (with abstracts) accepted for higher degrees by the universities of Great Britain and Ireland and the Council for National Academic Awards 1950- |
Serial Z 5055.G6
|
|
Index of theses (with abstracts) accepted for higher degrees by the universities of Great Britain and Ireland and the Council for National Academic Awards 1970-
|
Available via MetaLib
|
Author, title, date |
Location |
| The Chicago manual of style. 15th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003 | Z253 CHI |
| Joseph Gibaldi, MLA handbook for writers of research papers. 5th ed. New York: Modern Language Association, 1999 | PN147 GIB |
| MHRA style guide: a handbook for authors, editors, and writers of theses. 2nd ed. London: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2008 | PN147 MHR |
| The Oxford dictionary for writers and editors. 2nd ed., ed. & compiled by R. M. Ritter Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000 | Ref. PE1628 OXF |
| The Oxford style manual / ed. & compiled by R. M. Ritter Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003 | PN147 OXF |
Author, title, date |
Location |
| Guide to reference works for the study of the Spanish language and literature and Spanish American literature, Hensley C. Woodbridge. 2nd ed. New York: Modern Language Assoication of America, 1997 | Z2695.A2 WOO |
| Bibliografía descriptiva del teatro breve español (siglos XV-XX), Agustín de la Granja, María Luisa Lobato. Madrid: Iberoamericana, 1999 | Z2694.D7 GRA |
| Spain, Graham J. Shields, comp. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clio Press, 1994 | Z2681 SHI |
Literature references are often written with abbreviated terms. Probably the most troublesome are abbreviated journal titles which can make finding a journal difficult.
To find journal title abbreviations you could try:
Leistner, Otto. Intertnationale Titelabkürzungen von Zeitschriften, Zeitungen... in the Arts and Social Sciences Library at Oversize Z6945.A2 LEI
If you are unable to find the abbreviation you are looking for, please ask a member of the Library staff for assistance. Here are some lists of journal abbreviations that may be useful.
EndNote is the University of Bristol's recommended bibliographical management software, which can be used to collect, store, organise and manage references, and to output them as reference lists or bibliographies. A particularly useful function is 'Cite While You Write', enabling you to format Word documents, producing bibliographies and adding references within the text.
Updated 2 September 2013 by the University Library
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