Finding Latin American Studies in Franklin
Franklin is the online catalog for all the Penn Libraries, with the exception of the
Biddle Law Library (which has its own catalog). It accounts for over 98% of cataloged
items, the remaining 2% being contained in the card catalog. Cataloged items include
books, serials, journals, e-journals, newspapers, conference proceedings, sound
recordings, video recordings, and bibliographic and numeric data files in electronic
format acquired since 1968, as well as most older materials. Among materials only
partially in Franklin are older serials that have ceased publication, holdings
of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, sound recordings on cassette tape or on
LP, and research collections in microform. Not included in Franklin are citations
to articles in magazines, journals, newspapers, and the listings of individual
conference papers, essays in collections.
When doing author or title searches in Franklin, there are a few things to keep in mind:
- Searches are truncated, i.e., you only need to enter as much information as you think is needed to find what you are looking for.
- Omit first articles ("the," "an," "el," "las," "le," etc.) in titles, but all words following must be entered exactly as they appear on the book's title page.
- Enter author names with the last name first (e.g., "garcia marquez, g"). Capitalization is not important.
An excellent way to use FRANKLIN is to search by Library of Congress subject heading
Some subject headings relevant for Latin America used in FRANKLIN are:
mexican literature
latin american literature
spanish american literature
music cuba
Argentina history
Brazil civilization
(To learn more about searching by subject heading
click
here.)
Keyword
searching is very useful
- for combining different concepts into one search
- for restricting searches to geographic areas and
- for identifying unfamiliar Library of Congress subject headings, especially from known catch-phrases.
saints AND mexico
fiestas AND (mexico OR Guatemala)
modernism AND ("latin america" OR argentina OR uruguay)
globalization AND (mexic? OR "latin america?")
skey peru AND skey relations AND skey "united states"
skey brazil AND skey history AND publ letras
"skey" limits the keyword search to the subject field.
"?" truncates the search word.
(To learn more about keyword searching click here.)
"?" truncates the search word.
(To learn more about keyword searching click here.)
