Use UNISTAR, the online catalog, to identify books and other resources on Spanish and Portuguese language, literature and culture. Subject searches should be done using appropriate subject terms identified in the Library of Congress Subject Headings books which are located at the UNI Reference Desk. Examples of useful subject headings are:
Art,
Iberian
Latin
American fiction
Latin American literature--Periodicals
Latin American poetry
Mexican literature--Translations into
English
Portuguese Language--Brazil
Spanish American drama
Spanish language--Grammar
Spanish language--Spoken
Spanish literature--History and criticism
Spanish
poetry--To 1500
Mexico--Social life and customs
Spain--Civilization
Spain--Intellectual life
Motion pictures--Brazil
Short Stories, Spanish -- History and Criticism
Short Stories, Portuguese
Information of a certain time period may be identified by adding a century to the subject heading. Example: Art, Spanish--18th century; Spanish literature--18th century--History and criticism. If you have trouble identifying the correct subject heading, you may perform a Keyword search using the terms you want to find. You can then look through your results and when you find a source that looks promising, you can look at the subject headings given for that source and click on those subject headings to find more sources like it.
Persons wishing to find resources written in Spanish or Portuguese should click on the button at the top of the screen of your search results set and then select the Spanish or Portuguese language from the Language drop-down menu. Or you may click on the Advanced Search tab at the top, type in your search and limit your search to the Spanish or Portuguese language materials at the same time.
