Finding Books
Reference sources are a good place to start your research. You will find reference sources in the print reference collection, e-books and electronic databases.
Suggested reference books include:
- Foreign Language Dictionaries: Greek, Latin, Romanian, Italian, French, Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Cuban, Portuguese
- REF PA - PC
- Foreign Language Dictionaries: German, Polish, Russian, Lithuanian, Arabic, Gujarati, Chinese, Kurdish, Turkish, Japanese, Hawaiian, Maori
- REF PF - PL
- English & American Dictionaries and Thesauri
- REF PE
- Visual Dictionaries
- REF PE1629
- Oxford ESL Dictionary
- REF PE2835.O95
- TOEFL Practice Guides
- REF PE1128
Suggested reference databases include:
Available off-campus from the Off Campus Access Menu.
A catalog search is the best way to find books owned by the library.
- Search the MCC Library Catalog
Reading improvement books in the MCC Library:
- Challenger Adult Reading Series (reading lessons)
- LC5225
- Jamestown Education Series (series of stories at increasing levels of reading difficulty)
- PE1126
- Pre-GED Study Guides
- LB3060.33
- Various books and media on learning English
- PE1128
Finding Articles
Much college-level research will be done using periodicals/journal articles. Journal articles can be found through our subscription databases.
Suggested article databases include:
Available off-campus from the Off Campus Access Menu.
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Online tools for the research process:
Finding Websites
Remember to carefully evaluate information found on the Internet. Unlike most traditional print sources, Internet sources may not go through any review process before the information is made available to the public.