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welcome to the sierra college library tutorial on finding literary
criticism and author biographies in literature resource center.
start on the library home page at l_ r_c_ dot sierra college dot e_d_u_
under find articles you'll see the link to literature resource center
go ahead and click the proceed button
here's the main search screen for literature resource center
if you're looking for a particular work for example the bluest eye by toni
morrison
you can type in bluest eye
and click the radio button next to name of work
now you can click the search button
this is our result list divided by the type of source so the first tab here
is for literature criticism
under this tab you'll see either articles from literary journals
or you'll also see articles that are reprinted
in sources such as contemporary literary criticism children's literature review
you may be familiar some of these print sources in our reference collection
and if you click on one
this will take you to the full article
so this particular publication was reprinted into contemporary literary
criticism it's from the indian journal of american studies
you do have tool options on the right-hand side you can print out this
article or email it
also download it to your computer
and there's also a citation tools option if you want to learn how to cite the source
in mla or apa format
and hitting the back button will take you back to your results list
if you're interested in author biographies you'll see that there's a biography tab
and if you click on it will take you to sources such as contemporary authors
online
or the biography section from contemporary literary criticism
and you'll see a few other sources here as well
so if we click on this one we can get a nice biography about toni morrison
you'll see there are a few other tabs at the top topic and work overviews reviews and
notes this we'll tell you a bit about the book but it won't have a literary
analysis that you often need for enlgish 1b classes
and reviews are going to be short book reviews once again not the in-depth
analysis and criticism that you'll find under the literature criticism tab
so this is a quick and basic search on how to get some literary criticism
from literature resource center if you have any other questions please feel
free to ask a librarian