Reading a Call Number
Milne Library uses 'Library of Congress Classification (LCC)' to assign call numbers for books.
If the Call Number is G141 .B87 1993 (title: Historical geography : through the gates of space and time)
G141 describes the subject of the book. G141 is 'Historical geography'. Read the letter in alphabetical order and the number as a whole number
.B87 represents the author's last name. Read the letter alphabetically and the number as a decimal.
1993 represents the date of publication.
One way to locate print resources is through the Milne Library Catalog. To access the library catalog, click on the “library catalog” tab on the library’s homepage. You will then use the Call Number to locate the item in the library. If you need help finding the item, please do not hesitate to ask.
The second way is through Worldcat. To access Worldcat, click on the Worldcat tab on the library homepage. Once you have entered your search terms, you can limit your results using the tools located on the left hand side of your results list. If you would like a book that Milne library doesn’t own, you will request it through ILLiad.
***You can also check out items at Hartwick College with your SUNY Oneonta ID card.**
Below you will find an example of books that might be helpful for your assignment.
The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature by
Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major publishing phenomenon. In this volume, critics and authors of fantasy look at the history of fantasy since the Enlightenment, introduce readers to some of the different codes for the reading and understanding of fantasy and examine some of the many varieties and subgenres of fantasy; from magical realism at the more literary end of the genre, to paranormal romance at the more popular end. The book is edited by the same pair who edited The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (winner of a Hugo Award in 2005).
Call Number: PR149.F35 C36 2012ISBN: 9780521429597Publication Date: 2012-01-26
Evaporating Genres by
In this wide-ranging series of essays, an award-winning science fiction critic explores how the related genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror evolve, merge, and finally "evaporate" into new and more dynamic forms. Beginning with a discussion of how literary readers "unlearned" how to read the fantastic during the heyday of realistic fiction, Gary K. Wolfe goes on to show how the fantastic reasserted itself in popular genre literature, and how these genres themselves grew increasingly unstable in terms of both narrative form and the worlds they portray. More detailed discussions of how specific contemporary writers have promoted this evolution are followed by a final essay examining how the competing discourses have led toward an emerging synthesis of critical approaches and vocabularies. The essays cover a vast range of authors and texts, and include substantial discussions of very current fiction published within the last few years. Hardcover is un-jacketed.
Call Number: PN3435 .W65 2011ISBN: 9780819569363Publication Date: 2011-01-03
Fantasy by
Using a broad definition of fantasy to include myth, folklore, legend and fairy tale, this survey of the genre will entice as well as inform any student interested in the mysterious, mystical or magical. Beloved authors like J. R. R. Tolkien, Ursula K. Le Guin, William Morris and Robert E. Howard are examined closely.
Call Number: PN56.F34 M38 2002ISBN: 0415938902Publication Date: 2002-01-02
Shakespeare and Queer Theory by Call Number: PR 2976 .S27 2020ISBN: 9781474256681Publication Date: 2020-03-19
Video Games Have Always Been Queer by Call Number: GV1469.17.S63 R83 2019ISBN: 9781479831036Publication Date: 2019-03-19
