The problem with blogging is everything posts in reverse order -- you are seeing the 3rd set of database notes before the first. For that reason, I'll repeat that this is a reprint (sans screen prints) of Robert Lindsey's handouts on the Kansas State Library databases from a workshop he did last spring.
This database lets you find information about authors, criticisms of their work, bibliographies, timelines and other information related to authors and their works.
Search by Author. These are long biographical and career overviews, between 12 to 30 or more pages, and they include extensive bibliographies of works by and about the author.
The Other Tabs
Literary Criticism, Articles & Work Overviews is the next tab, and it has three sub-tabs in green (see back side of page). For articles about one certain writing of an author, such as Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, look under the Work Overviews sub-tab.
Bibliographies tab mostly takes you back to the bibliographies listed under the Biographies tab.
Additional Resources tab takes you to reviewed websites such as official Pulitzer Prize, Nobel Prize, scholarly groups, or PBS sites.
Literary-Historical Timeline has nothing to do with your search. It is simply a timeline of events to put authors and books iton historical perspective.
Search for Author by Type from the front page:
- Fill in any one or more fields.
- If you get no results, eliminate fields one-at-a-time until you get results you are satisfied with.
For example, if I only pick
Genre: Slave Narratives, I get results.
If I pick
Genre: Slave Narratives, AND
Theme: Black womanhood, I get no results.
I need to change one or the other back to
*None selected*.
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