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*Resources available through SHS Library Webpage www.millstreetdesign.com http://www.spackenkillschools.org/schoollibraries/spacklibrary/ www.millstreetdesign.com
I.* Books in our Library
“
Library Catalog
” icon on
SHS Library Webpage
Click on SEARCH tab.
Click on POWER search.
Do two General Keyword searches (change the drop-down boxes at the left of top 2 boxes):
1) Try the TITLE of your novel in the top box, and the word CRITICISM in box below it.
You might get lucky and locate an entire book of criticism on your novel! If not....
2) Search for your AUTHOR'S LAST NAME in the top box, and leave the word CRITICISM in the box
underneath (both still General Keywords ). This will give you books in our collection about your author's work in general. Look in the index to see if your novel is discussed. Almost all of our
Fitzgerald and Hemingway books are on Reserve for Library Use Only. Copies are 5 cents a page.
A book with one author:
McCarthy, Paul. John Steinbeck . New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1980. 101-109. Print.
A book with two authors:
Samuels, Wilfred D., and Clenora Hudson-Weems. Toni Morrison . Boston: Twayne Publishers,
1990. 57-83. Print.
A book with one editor, but no author:
Kinnamon, Keneth, ed. New Essays on Native Son . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
55-66. Print.
A book in the Twayne authors criticism series (for online version, see #V. below):
Detweiler, Robert. John Updike . Boston: Twayne, 1984.
125-137. Print. Twayne's United States Authors
Ser. 481.
An article, originally from another source, reprinted in a book in a series:
( Modern Critical Views, Literary Companion series, etc.)
Gardiner, Elaine. "'Ripe Figs' : Kate Chopin in Miniature." Modern Fiction Studies 28, No. 3,
Autumn 1982. Rpt. in Kate Chopin . Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House Publishers,
1987. 83-87. Print. Modern Critical Views.

Print version: (REF 809.3 NOV)
E-book version: Thomson Gale Virtual Reference Library on SHS Library Databases page
AND through our Library Catalog
Thomson Gale Virtual Reference Library and our Library Catalog can be accessed at home:
Password: ASK LIBRARY STAFF
Contains analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels. The volume you need will come up when you search Horizon by general keyword. The print version is Library Use Only, but the ebook can be read or printed out through Horizon or Thomson Gale Virtual Reference Library .
An article from PRINT Novels for Students that never appeared anywhere else:
James, Pearl. "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Novels for Students . Ed. Diane Telgen. Vol. 1.
Detroit: Gale, 1997. 1-3. Print.
An article from the E-BOOK version of Novels for Students, not published elsewhere:
James, Pearl. "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Novels for Students . Ed. Diane Telgen, Vol. 1,
Detroit: Gale, 1977. 1-21.
Reproduced in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Novels for
Students . Ed. Diane Telgen. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1997. 1-21. Gale Virtual Reference Library .
Web. 7 Apr. 2010. < http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CCX2591400011& v=2.1&u=nysl_se_spac&it=r&p=GVRL&sw=w >.
An article, originally from another source, reprinted in PRINT Novels for Students:
Brownell, Frances V. "The Role of Jim in Huckleberry Finn." Boston Studies in English , Vol. 1, 1955,
74-83. Rpt. in Novels for Students . Ed. Diane Telgen. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1997. 19-20. Print.
An article, originally from another source, reproduced in E-BOOK version of
Novels for Students:
Brownell, Frances V. "The Role of Jim in Huckleberry Finn." Boston Studies in English , Vol. 1, 1955,
74-83. Reproduced in “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Novels for Students . Ed. Diane
Telgen. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1997. 1-21. Gale Virtual Reference Library . Web. 7 Apr. 2010.
< http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CCX2591400011&v=2.1&u=nysl_se_spac&it=r& p=GVRL&sw=w >.

on the SHS Library Databases Webpage
Go to the Gale website to use their online reference books. Do a Title Search for your novel. Be careful to choose information NOT already chosen from Novels for Students.
To access Literature Resource Center from home, our password is: ASK LIBRARY STAFF
Online resource maintained by a commercial subscription service :
French, Warren. "John Steinbeck: Overview." Reference Guide to American Literature . Ed. Jim Kamp. 3 rd
ed. Detroit: St. James Press, 1994. Literature Resource Center . Web. 7 Apr. 2010.
<http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CH1420007683&v=2.1&u=nysl_se_spac
&it=r&p= LitRC&sw=w>.
on the SHS Library Databases Webpage
Student Resource Center Gold: allows you to search for reference books, magazines, newspapers,
primary documents, and multimedia files on your author and his novel. BE CAREFUL TO AVOID
MOVIE REVIEWS. Type the title of your novel in the box that says "Enter Search Terms." Press enter.
Student Resource Center Gold can be accessed at home: Password: ASK LIBRARY STAFF
Article found through Student Resource Center, a subscription resource available at
SHS Library: (use citation given at the end, even though it may not be MLA7).
Cumberland, Sharon. "Overview of The Red Badge of Courage." EXPLORING Novels . Online ed. Detroit:
Gale, 2003. Student Resource Center - Gold . Gale. Spackenkill High School. 7 Apr. 2010
<http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&pr odId=SRC-1&docId=EJ2111200009&source=gale&srcprod=SRCG&userGroupName= nysl_se_spac&version=1.0>.
on the SHS Library Databases Webpage
This is the online version of the Twayne Authors Series books we also have on the shelves. (If you use the
BOOK, see #I). The entire online database is on our Databases page; individual e-books can be accessed right through our online catalog! Do an “Authors A-Z” search. Scan the table of contents to see if your novel is discussed. If your work is not mentioned, select a “likely possibility” and use Ctrl+F to find a title word within the chapter (Gatsby, Farewell, etc.)
Twayne Authors can be accessed at home: Password: ASK LIBRARY STAFF
French, Warren. “John Steinbeck and the American Consciousness.”
John Steinbeck . Twayne's
United States Authors Series Online . New York: G. K. Hall & Co., 1999. Previously
published in print in 1975 by Twayne Publishers. Web. 7 Apr. 2010.
<http://galenet.galegroup.com/>.

on the SHS Library Databases Webpage
Search for the title of your novel in the "Search" box. Then, click the "Analysis and Criticism" tab at the top of your search results.
Bloom's Literary Reference can be accessed at home:
Username:
Password:
ASK LIBRARY STAFF
ASK LIBRARY STAFF
Online resource maintained by a commercial subscription service (use citation given at end of article, even though it may not be in MLA7 format):
Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. " The Bell Jar ." Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature . New York: Facts On File,
Inc., 2006. Bloom's Literary Reference Online . Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/ activelink2.asp? ItemID=WE54&SID=5&iPin= EFL570&SingleRecord=True (accessed April 7,
2010).
“
Gale Literary Index
” on the
SHS Library Databases Webpage to use their index of reference sources.
1) Do an author search and scroll down to find your novel. Note which series, volumes, and pages cover your book, and retrieve them from the reference section. Look for:
American Writers (Charles Scribner's Sons, an imprint of Gale, # IX below) (REF 810 AME)
Contemporary Literary Criticism , volumes 1-130 (REF 809 Con)
Literature and Its Times (REF 809.93358 Lit)
Novels for Students ( REF 809.3 NOV), and online, # II above)
Reference Guide to American Literature (St. James Press, # VIII below) (REF 810.9 REF)
Twayne's United States Authors (Twayne Publishers, on "Databases" page, #V above)
Twentieth Century Literary Criticism , volumes 1-55 (REF 809 Twe)
A literary criticism REPRINTED in a collection of criticisms
( Gale's Black Literature Criticism, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century
Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, etc.):
Roberts, Sheila. "A Confined World: A Rereading of Margaret Atwood." World Literature Written in English 24 (1984): 232-38. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism . Ed. Dennis
Poupard. Vol. 25. Detroit: Gale, 1988. 399-402. Print.
An article from Literature and its Times:
" Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison." Literature and Its Times: Profiles of 300 Notable Literary
Works and the Historical Events that Influenced Them . Ed. Joyce Moss and George
Wilson. Vol. 4. Detroit: Gale, 1997. 209-215. Print.

Literature (REF 810.9 REF)
Pages 1-956 cover authors. Pages 957-1071 discuss selected novels.
An article from Reference Guide to American Literature:
Deck, Alice A. " Beloved . Novel by Toni Morrison, 1987." Reference Guide to American
Literature . Fourth edition. Ed. Thomas Riggs. Detroit: St. James Press, 2000. 970. Print.
(REF 810 AME)
Look in the index to see which pages cover the novels.
An article from American Writers (or British Writers, or European Writers):
Young, Philip. "Ernest Hemingway." American Writers . Ed. Leonard Unger. Vol. II. New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974. 247-269. Print.
(REF 809 MAG)
Look on the spines to see which volume contains your novel (they are arranged like an encyclopedia, A-Z by title.) Pay particular attention to the sections "Critique" and "Further Critical Evaluation of the Work."
An article from Masterplots:
Cutler, Constance A. "The Age of Innocence." Masterplots . Ed. Frank N. Magill. Revised edition.
Vol. 1. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1976. 65-69. Print.
(REF 823.009 MAG)
Look on the spines to see which volume contains your author (they are arranged like an encyclopedia, A-Z by author.) Pay particular attention to the section on "Analysis."
An article from Critical Survey of Long Fiction:
Engar, Anne Willardson. "Pearl S. Buck." Critical Survey of Long Fiction: English Language Series .
Ed. Frank N. Magill. Vol.1. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1983. 338-346. Print.