SELECTED RESOURCES

for

PLU LIBRARY

January 22, 1999

Gail Egbers

535-8869/egbersgl@plu.edu

QUEST, our computerized catalog, provides access to the materials in our library. Use the Library of Congress Subject Headings to identify the best subject headings for your topic. Some topics that might be of interest:

• Women -- Mythology

• Mythology in literature

• Mythology -- Dictionaries

• Mythology, Greek

• Goddesses -- Dictionaries.

• Folklore

Link to the databases via PLU Library Website. These include:

• Arts and Humanities
• Social Sciences
• Education

Periodical indexes provide the most efficient subject access to journals, magazines, and newspapers. Indexes relevant to your topic include:

• Ebsco. An index of about 3000 journals, 1000 of them available full-text. It covers a wide range of topics.
• Humanities Index ( Index area ref.AI3.R51)
• MLA (Index Area ref.Z7006.M66x). Index of books, book chapters, dissertations, and periodical articles in the areas of language, literature, linguistics, & folklore.
• Social Science Index (Index Area, ref AI3.R5)
• Guide to the literature of the social sciences

Use QUEST to obtain the call number of the journal you need. Current issues of journals are shelved on the first floor. Older issues (bound volumes and microfilm) are on the second and third floors, shelved with the books.

1. Aftermath; a supplement to The golden bough (ref.BL310.F715 1966)

2. American folklore : an encyclopedia (ref.GR101.A54 1996)

3. Ancient writers : Greece and Rome (ref.PA3002.A5 1982)

4. Bibliography of Canadian folklore in English (ref.GR113.F66 1981)

5. Brand's Popular antiquities of Great Britain. Faith and folklore; a dictionary of national beliefs, superstitions

6. and popular customs, past and current, with their classical and foreign analogues, described and illustrated. (ref.DA110.B832)

7. Brewer's dictionary of phrase and fable (ref.PN43.B65 1970b)

8. Crowell's handbook of classical mythology.( ref.BL303.T75 1970 )

9. Dictionary of classical antiquities, mythology, religion, literature [and] art. (ref.DE5.S5 1956)

10. Dictionary of classical mythology : symbols, attributes & associations (ref.BL715.B44 1982)

11. Dictionary of classical reference in English poetry (ref.PR508.C68S63 1984)

12. Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ref.DE5.D5 1967)

13. Dictionary of mythology, folklore and symbols (ref.GR35.J6)

14. Ecyclopaedia of Middle Eastern mythology and religion (ref.BL1060.K63x 1993)

15. Facts on File encyclopedia of world mythology and legend (ref.BL303.M45 1988)

16. Folklore : a study and research guide (ref.Z5981.B78)

17. Folklore : an encyclopedia of beliefs, customs, tales, music, and art (ref.GR35.F63 1997)

18. Folklore and symbolism of flowers, plants and trees (ref.QK83.L4)

19. Folklore of world holidays (ref.GT3930.F65 1992)

20. Funk & Wagnalls standard dictionary of folklore, mythology and legend.( ref.GR35.F8)

21. Gods and goddesses of ancient Greece (ref.BL782.B36)

22. Golden bough; a study in magic and religion (ref.BL310.F7 1911)

23. Heroes and heroines of fiction (ref.PN43.W33 1966)

24. Illustrated encyclopedia of mythology (ref.BL315.I45 1984)

25. Index to written Alaska native folklore (ref.E98.F6C73x 19920

26. Larousse dictionary of world folklore (ref.GR35.J66x 1995)

27. Legend and lore of the Americas before 1492: an encyclopedia of visitors, explorers, and immigrants (ref.E61.F75 1993)

28. Macmillan illustrated encyclopedia of myths & legends (ref.BL303.C67 1989)

29. Mythology of all races (ref.BL25.M8)

30. New Larousse encyclopedia of mythology (ref.BL311.L33 1968)

31. Ordinary and the fabulous: an introduction to myths, legends and fairy tales for teachers and storytellers. (ref.Z1037.C767)

32. Oxford companion to classical literature (ref.PA31.H69 1989)

33. Oxford guide to classical mythology in the arts, 1300-1990s (ref.NX650.M9R45 1993)

34. Pears Encyclopaedia of myths and legends (ref.BL311.P4 1976)

35. Place-names in classical mythology : Greece (ref.DF16.B45 1989)

36. Room's Classical dictionary : the origins of the names of characters in classical mythology (ref.BL727.R58 1983)

37. Voyages in classical mythology (ref.BL727.S66 1994)

38. Women of classical mythology : a biographical dictionary (ref.BL715.B445 1991)

39. Woman's dictionary of symbols and sacred objects (ref.CB475.W35 1988) 1/99-gle