The Trexler Library: Muhlenberg College

Visual Culture in Latin America

Need help with your research? Contact:

Kelly Cannon
Humanities & Business Subject Specialist
Trexler Library
phone: x3602
email: kcannon@muhlenberg.edu
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Reference works

Artcyclopedia
Points to museums' online exhibitions that often included reviewed biographical sketches of artists.

Encyclopedia of Mexico
By library subscription. Signed articles useful especially for the bibliographies.

Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture ***RECOMMENDED***
By library subscription. Signed articles written by leading scholars in the field. Great for topic narrowing and for identifying the most important articles and books on a subject.

Grove Dictionary of Art (Trexler Library Reference Collection 703 T948d)
The "cadillac" of biographical sketches of artists like Izquierdo and Kahlo. All signed articles with bibiographies.

Wikipedia
Unsigned articles. Seek corroboration. Use bibliography that points to additional resources.

Authoritative secondary commentary in books, plus primary documentation that has been published in book form. . .

Trexler Library Catalog
Catalog of all books and documents in Trexler Library at Muhlenberg College.

WorldCat ***RECOMMENDED***
Catalog of books and documents in libraries throughout the world. Watch especially for the AREA LIBRARIES designation.

Authoritative secondary commentary in articles . . .

Academic Search Premier
Popular and peer-reviewed articles from a variety of academic disciplines.

Art Full Text
Standard index for peer-reviewed articles on art criticism.

Historical Abstracts ***RECOMMENDED***
Standard index for peer-reviewed articles and scholarly books on Latin American history.

MLA
Standard index for peer-reviewed articles and scholarly books on film and literature.

PRISMA
Indexing and full text for peer-reviewed journals published in and about Latin America, many in Spanish and Portuguese on an array of topics.

getting to the full text of an article. . .

Once you have found the citation of a journal article you're interested in, click on the Get It link found next to the citation, or run a journal title search in Trexler Library's online catalog.

articles via interlibrary loan. . .

Journal articles not found in Trexler Library can be ordered on interlibrary loan.

Reviewed websites

Google Scholar

Intute
From a consortium of universities in the UK, reviews websites for purposes of higher education and research.

Citing sources

For tips on citing print and electronic sources, visit Trexler Library's Citation Guides for Print and Electronic Resources.

For automated citation, try the shareware Zotero.

Constructing an annotated bibliography

For help in writing annotated bibliographies in the MLA (or APA) style, visit Purdue's Online Writing Lab for a definition of an annotation and proper format.

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Last modified: 17 February 2011