Research Resources:
Subject Research Guides:
Literatures in English:
Library Catalogs and Union Lists
Despite the proliferation of electronic databases, there is still a wealth of bibliographic information accessible only through print sources.
Here is a sampling of just a few such sources available in Alexander's Reference Collection.
**National Union Catalog.
An immense set listing the holdings of hundreds of major American libraries. Arranged by author (or title, in the case of anonymous works),
NUC provides bibliographic information regarding authors and editions. See what US libraries own first editions of Pride and Prejudice
--or track adaptations and abridgements of it. Most valuable are the 754 volumes of Pre 1956 Imprints, books published before
1956, but the first two supplements, 1956-1967 and 1968-1972 are also important. NUC
is still being published,
but the advent of systems like
Eureka and
WorldCat
has lessened the usefulness of the more recent volumes.
ALEXANDER REF Z 881.U49.
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America [Radcliffe
College]. The Manuscript Inventories and the Catalogs of Manuscripts, Books and Pictures. 2nd edition.
10 volumes.
ALEXANDER REF Z 7965.A78 1984.
The British Library. British Library Catalogue to 1975.
A catalogue of one of the world's great libraries. There are also two supplements covering 1976-1982 and 1982-1985.
ALEXANDER REF Z 921.B88.
Folger Shakespeare Library. Catalog of Printed Books of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
A key resource for scholars of the Renaissance.
ALEXANDER REF Z 881.F62fo.
John Hay Library at Brown University. Catalog of Broadsides of American Verse in the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays. 5 volumes.
Lists more than 12,000 separate pieces of American verse, from 1700 on, in broadsides, broad sheets, and leaflets.
ALEXANDER REF Z 1231.P7B72 1986.
New York Public Library. Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries(1911-1971). ALEXANDER REF Z 881. N57.
A 1000-volume catalog of one of the world's greatest libraries (only a bus ride
away). See also the following catalogs of NYPL special collections or affiliates:
Dictionary Catalog of the Rare Book Division (ALEXANDER REF Z 1011.N7);
Dictionary Catalog of the Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature (ALEXANDER REF Z 2011.N55);
and Dictionary Catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History (ALEXANDER REF Z 1361.N39N4).
Sophia Smith Collection [Smith College]. Catalogs of the Sophia Smith Collection, Women's
History Archive. 7 volumes.
Includes a two-volume author
catalog, a three-volume subject catalog, and two volumes on manuscripts and photographs.
ALEXANDER REF Z 7965.S542. 1975.
