Librarian for Romance Languages and Literatures
Books & eBooks
The CAT - Find Books and Other Materials at Penn State
You can search The CAT by entering book titles or authors' names. Authors' names should be listed in The CAT according to standard French usage and titles should be entered without the initial article (le, la, les).
Examples: Gide, Andre -or- retour de l'enfant prodigue
To do a subject search, it is important to know the LC subject headings. You can also "Browse" by subject headings. Examples of useful subject headings:
- French literature
- French literature -- 16th century
- Short stories, French -- History and criticism
Some Call Numbers for French Language and Literature
Numbers in the PC class for language:
PC2001-3761: French
PC2813-2898: Old French
PC3201-3366: Provencal (Old)
Numbers in the PN class for literature:
PN801-820: Romance literature
Numbers in the PQ class for literature:
PQ1-3999: French literature
PQ1-771: History and criticism
PQ1300-1595: Old French literature
PQ1600-2726: Modern literature
How to find materials NOT at Penn State:
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Interlibrary Loan (ILLIAD)Interlibrary Loan (ILL) allows you to request materials not available at Penn State. Faculty, staff, and currently enrolled students are eligible to use the service.
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WorldCat (OCLC FirstSearch)WorldCat is a union catalog that contains over 43 million records from libraries around the world.
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HathiTrust (Public Domain within US only)A digital catalog and online repository of books, journals, and other content from research libraries. Includes millions of full view items, while others are search only.
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Gallica EbooksThis is the multimedia online library of the Bibliothèque Nationale of France Over 80,000 fully digitized texts and 300,000 fully digitized images are available.
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ARTFL (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language)a cooperative project containing approximately 2000 French texts.