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Latin American Studies

Books

To find books on a topic, search Omni by author, title, subject headings, or keyword.
 
To find books by a particular author/person, search Omni by author:
 
guevara, che
garcia marquez, gabriel
 
To find books about a particular author/person, search Omni by subject heading:
 
guevara, ernesto, 1928-1967
garcia marquez, gabriel, 1928-
 
To find books on a topic, use a keyword boolean search if you do not know the correct subject heading for a topic. Think of the focus (or key) words that describe your topic.
 
Guevara and revolution
 
Select useful titles and look at the full record for subject headings.
 
Some useful Latin American Studies subject headings are:
 
Latin America - history - to 1600
Latin America - history - 19th century
Latin America - politics and government
Latin America - social conditions
Developing countries - economic conditions
Political culture - Latin America
Social change - Latin America
Chile - foreign relations - United States (for example; choose country of interest)
Latin American literature - to 1800
Latin American literature - history and criticism
 
These are just some examples. It is always a good idea to look at all the subject headings ("Subject(s)") in Omni in the full record of books that are relevant to your topic. Often books will be catalogued with a number of subject headings under which you can search for related resources.