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The books you can check out are on the third floor of the library and are arranged by Library of Congress call numbers. If you have any trouble finding a book, please go to the research services desk!
LC Call #'s for History:
LC Call#s for Germany = DD
LC Call#s for Austria (et al) = DB1-DB879
LC Call#s for Switzerland =DQ
Featured Books & DVDs from the Catalog
Countries and Their Cultures by Call Number: World Wide Web | GN307 .C68 2001ebISBN: 0028658965Publication Date: 2003-11-01eBook available online (You can browse this and/or download up to 100 pages)
Countries and Their CulturesCall Number: Reference | GN307 .C68 2001ISBN: 0028649508Publication Date: 2001-05-23
Native Peoples of the World by Call Number: Reference | GN380 .N383 2013ISBN: 9780765682222Publication Date: 2012-11-15
A German Identity: 1770-1990 by Call Number: Stacks | DD76 .J36 1989ISBN: 0415901804Publication Date: 1989-04-01
The Swiss : how they live and work by Call Number: Stacks | DQ36 .A5ISBN: 0275563405Publication Date: 1976
The Swiss : a cultural panorama of Switzerland by Call Number: Stacks | DQ36 .S66Publication Date: 1972
Switzerland Under Siege 1939-1945 by Call Number: Stacks | D763.S9 S85 2000ISBN: 0897254147Publication Date: 2000-12-01- A view of society and manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany: [electronic resource] : with anecdotes relating to some eminent characters. by Call Number: Early American Imprints (Evans) OnlinePublication Date: 1792
100 German Short Stories for Beginners Learn German with Stories Including Audiobook German Edition Foreign Language Book 1 by Call Number: Stacks | PF3065 .S73 2017ISBN: 9781387414703Publication Date: 2017-12-04
Great German Short Stories of the Twentieth Century by Call Number: Stacks | PT1327 .G745 2012ISBN: 9780486476322Publication Date: 2012-04-19
Great German Short Stories by Call Number: Stacks | PT1327 .G74 2003ISBN: 9780486432052Publication Date: 2003-12-12The unique boundaries of the short story have attracted a majority of the prominent writers in the German language since the genre attained its modern form and became widely read around the turn of the 19th century.
German Women Writers of the Twentieth Century by Call Number: World Wide Web | PT1308ISBN: 9781483279572Publication Date: 2014-05-09(This is an e-Book) - Works are not only short stories. Click on FIND IT and follow links to read this online - this will require logging in with your Gullnet login info. (Recommend Read Online option rather than Download)
Six German Romantic Tales by Call Number: Stacks | PT1327 .K58 1993ISBN: 9780802312952Publication Date: 1993-08-04
A New History of German Literature by Call Number: Stacks | PT91 .N49 2004ISBN: 0674015037Publication Date: 2005-02-15
Kafka by Call Number: Stacks | PT2621.A26 Z88413 2017ISBN: 9780691151984Publication Date: 2016-11-08"How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach’s definitive biography answers that question with more facts, detail, and insight than ever before, describing the complex personal, political, and cultural circumstances that shaped the young Franz Kafka (1883-1924).
Look Who's Back by Call Number: Stacks | PT2724.E75 E713 2017ISBN: 9781681449524Publication Date: 2016-05-10He’s back. Berlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of ground, alive and well. Things have changed - no Eva Braun, no Nazi party, no war. Hitler barely recognizes his beloved Fatherland, filled with immigrants and run by a woman. And he’s führious . . .
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Reference books & Circulating books and other information on the German People
Reference books often give you a good overview of a topic as a STARTING POINT for your research. These books have the word " Reference" or "StacksRef" before the Library of Congress Call #. Example: Reference | GN307.C68 2001 is the location and Call # for Countries and Their Cultures. NOTE: Reference books need to be viewed in the library, but passages can be scanned and emailed to you.
Circulating books in the STACKS (3rd Floor) can be good for more in-depth information on your topic. And you can even get books from other libraries through our "Direct Borrowing" or "Interlibrary Loan" services. (Ask a librarian or library staff member about these.)
Journal/magazine/ newspaper articles can often give you the most recent information on a topic, but articles tend to be very focused on a specific aspect of a topic and are generally not as good as a books in terms of an overview or in-depth coverage of a topic.
In short, it is often best to use all three kinds of sources.
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