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Books and other materials including CDs, DVDS, and more, can be found using the library's online catalog.
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
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
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.
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.
Sponsored by the libraries of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the University of California, and other partners, HathiTrust is a repository of digitized materials in all disciplines. Its content--primarily scanned books and journals-- may be searched via authors, titles, subjects, and other data elements.
This 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.
a cooperative project containing approximately 2000 French texts.
Full text database ranging from classic works in French literature to nonfiction prose and technical writings. Mostly 18th-20th century texts. Coverage: about 2000 texts in the French language.