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EDU 251: Children's Literature

Library Guide

How to Find Books on the Sample Topic, "Women in children's literature"

Try an Advanced Search in WorldCat  using keywords from these Subject headings:

Useful Subject Headings:

  • Women in literature
  • Sexism in literature
  • Feminism Fiction
  • Feminist fiction
  • Fairy tales
  • Children's literature
  • Children's stories
  • Juvenile literature
  • Juvenile fiction

AND finds all terms

OR finds either term

fem* finds female, feminist, feminism

mt: juv finds juvenile/children's books (mt= main target audience is juvenile)

Inter-library Loans (ILL): How much does it cost?

Students:

  • ILL books are free if available in a Canadian library
  • ILL articles are $3.00 each

Faculty:

  • no charge for ILL requests

Retired faculty:

  • allowed 5 free requests per year
  • If more  than 5 are needed, the requester will be responsible for any fees involved.

How Long do they Take?

  • allow two weeks from when you submit the ILL order, but sometimes they come sooner

Further information (how to make a request) is available here.

How to Find Journal Articles on the topic, "The Portrayal of Women in Fairy Tales and Children's Literature"

From the Library Databases page, go to EBSCOhost  and select EBSCOhost Web.  Then choose your database(s). Try the following search:

On the library website, go to the Databases page and select  your database. Then try the following search:

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