Searching Library Catalogs
Use OskiCat to locate materials on the shelves of the UC Berkeley libraries and also to:
- renew books online
- find course reserves and to
- place holds on items that are checked out.
Use Melvyl to locate materials at other campuses in the UC system, or worldwide, and also to
- request materials from another library if we don't own it
- find articles from some article databases
- easily format a citation for copying into a bibliography Melvyl will also show you the location and availablity of items that we own.
Language tips (OskiCat)
- Ignore diacritics
- use Friedrich Durrenmatt instead of Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- use n instead of ñ
- use the transliterated spelling (for non-Roman languages)
- Limit results by language (Modify search)
- Try alternate spellings for foreign names and titles
Starting points
The following Library of Congress Subject Heading links provide good lists to browse primary and secondary sources in the library stacks:
- Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Dürrenmatt, Friedrich -- Criticism and interpretation
- Frisch, Max
Select the Sort/Limit results button to hone in on more specific titles.
Dictionary of Literary Biography See especially: Vol. 124: Twentieth-Century German Dramatists, 1919-1992. Vol. 176: Ancient Greek Authors. Read at Google Read at Google
A Bertolt Brecht reference companion Read at Google Read at Google
Last Update: December 05, 2012 10:15