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Karen Gillum

kjgillum@colby.edu 

Other Useful Colby Library Guides

• Cinema Studies
• Environmental Studies
• History
• Evaluating Sources 
• About Citations 
• International Newspapers
• International Government

Databases

      Film​

• Screen Studies Collection 
• Arts (Proquest) 
• Kanopy 

      Literature

• MLA International Bibliography 
• Literature Online (LION) 
• Literature Resource Center 
• Sociological Abstracts 
• JSTOR
• Arts and Humanities Full Text
• Italian Theory and Criticism, IN Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism 

      Nature​'

• Environment Complete 
• GREENER 

      Art

• Artstor  -  a database of images
• Art & Architecture Source - a database of articles
• Arts (Proquest)  -  articles on a variety of artistic media

A Few Books:

• Nature and History in Modern Italy, Marco Armiero and Marcus Hall, 2010
• Letteratura Italiana Contemporanea     PQ4087.F47 2007
• The Operatic and the Everyday in Post-War Italian Film, Louis Bayman, 2014
• Rome: An Urban History from Antiquity to Present, Rabun Taylor, Katherine Wentworth Rinne, Spiro Kostof, 2016

Some Subject Searches:

• Italian Literature
• Italian Actors
• Italian Agriculture
• Italian natural history
• Italian Film Criticism
• Italian Geography
• Italian Cinema

Nature in Italian Literature and Film

Vertumnus, Guiseppe Arcimboldo, 1590-1591	Four Seasons On One Head, Guiseppe Arcimboldo, 1590-1591

Steps in Your Research

• Read your initial text attentively, considering what information would put the writing in context and give you a fuller understanding of it.
• Think about what sorts of publications the information you need might be published in
• Look up background information in the reference materials, e.g., Credo Reference, encyclopedias, atlases and histories, etc.
• Use terminology and facts learned from background sources to search for articles in historical newspapers and periodical databases. 
• Search for books (memoirs, collections of letters, biographies, diaries, special histories)  in any of Colby's catalogs, expanding your search with subject linking

Some interesting links:

• WESS Italian Studies  The Italian Studies Web is designed to provide access to scholarly resources in Italian Studies.  The resources organized here have undergone a selection and evaluation process.  Specific topics include Italian cinema, history, literature, and politics and government. 
• Cambridge History of Italian Literature   PQ4038 .C35 1996  or as an eBook
• Italy: A Reference Guide from Antiquity to the Present, Roland Sarti, 2014 
• David Rumsey Historical Map Collection

Catalogs

• CBBcat - The library catalog of Colby, Bates & Bowdoin
  Search for books, CDs, videos and more.
• WorldCat
  Search for books and other materials held in libraries worldwide. Order through ILLiad.

Signing up for an ILLiad account

Techniques

• Use quotation marks to glue a phrase together. E.g., "Milanese Design"
• Use an asterisk as a wild card to cover word variations. E.g., Urban* (for Urban, Urbanized, Urbanist)
• Broaden your search by using OR with parentheses. E.g., (Milan OR Italy). Results can contain either term.
• Narrow your search by using AND. E.g., Milan AND Florence. Results must contain both terms.
• Find one good item? Click on a record's Subject Headings to find similar material.
• Expand your reach, sign up for ILLiad, our Interlibrary loan service.
• Order directly from within WorldCat by clicking on Request through ILLiad@Colby.