Christine Thomas
3/8/16
Mexico Cities Project
April 2009
Research Tips:
 REMEMBER TO USE THE INDEX AND TABLE OF CONTENTS TO SEE IF THE INFORMATION
YOU NEED IS IN THE BOOK!
 Use Alexandria to find books in the library
o Reminder, the library is organized with the Dewey Decimal system.
Alexandria Catalog
Go to: http://library_eccles.rhsm.org/
Search by Keyword, Subject, Title or Author. ie, Mexico City (as a keyword)
Library Website
Go to: http://rhsmlibrary.org/
Link to the catalog system, databases and Señora Thomas’’s pathfinder on South America.
http://web.me.com/rhsmlibrary/rhsmlibrary/Spanish.html
DATABASES
www.rhsm.org/eccleslibrary/
Culturegrams
(an excellent resource for general information on a country. Includes, recipes, statistics, economics,
history, holidays, culture, etc).
World Book Online Encyclopedia
SIRS Discoverer
World and I
http://www.worldandischool.com/
Username: rowland
Password: hall
You can also access the above resources through Pioneer On-Line Library at http://pioneer.uen.org
A password is not needed when accessing from school. However, when accessing from home you
will need the following:
http://pioneer.uen.org
Username:
Pioneer
Password:
look
BASIC WEBSITES
Brief descriptions and information of different Mexico cities and official travel sitehttp://www.visitmexico.com/wb/Visitmexico/
CIA World Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
Great site with information on Mexico from a variety of different sourceshttp://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/govpubs/for/mexico.htm
Christine Thomas
3/8/16
PRINT RESOURCES
General Information
R 031 WOR
R 910 WOR
972s
972 MEX
World Book Encyclopedia
People and Places
Ancient South American civilizations
Books on Mexico
Travel Books (not cataloged)
Birnbaum’s Mexico 1994 (4 copies)
Fodor’s Mexico 1993
National Geographic Traveler – Mexico
Fodor’s See it Mexico
DK Eyewitness Travel Mexico
Discovery Channel Insight Guides Mexico
Mexico Knopf Guides
Culture
R 305.097 OLE
306.03 GAL
306.03 DOH
708 NAT
Encyclopedia of world cultures-South America V.7
Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life
The Usborne book of peoples of the world
National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City
Food
641.5 ALB
61.4 COO
The Multicultural Cookbook for Students
Cooking the Mexican Way
Land Forms, Geography
R 912 ENC
OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIC WORLD ATLAS
R 912 CON
OXFORD CONCISE ATLAS OF THE WORLD
R 912 GEO
GEOGRAPHICA
917 BAJ
Baja California and Mexico
Government Info:
R 320 PIO
R 909.82 UNI
929.9 RYA
Biographical Info:
R 031
921
Governments of the World
Handbook of the Nations
Flags
World Book Encyclopedia
All biographies are located in the 921 section of the library, alphabetically, under the
persons last name.
Periodicals
Use EBSCO – MAS Ultra and Middle Search Plus for electronic forms of popular magazines.
National Geographic http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
(The library has the hard copy of National Geographic)
Search online to obtain the issue number and date, then see the librarian for the backissue.