The LTCC Library provides many excellent resources to you for conducting research. Listed below are some of the important sources that will help you with your assignments for this class.

• Locating Books, Videotapes, and More
• Finding Magazine and Newspaper Articles
• Discovering Useful Websites
• Citing Your Source Using MLA Style
• Miscellaneous Information

To locate books, videotapes, and other materials that the LTCC Library owns, search our Online Public Access Catalog.

If you can't find what you're looking for at the LTCC Library, try searching the Mountain Valley Library System Regional Catalog for books and other materials available in other area libraries, such as the El Dorado County Library South Lake Tahoe Branch.

You might also try a search of the nearby Sierra Nevada College Maclean Library or the University of Nevada, Reno Libraries.

• EBSCOhost

The LTCC Library maintains a subscription to EBSCOhost, which is an online database that provides you with access to millions of full text magazine and newspaper articles covering nearly all subjects.
• FindArticles.com

FindArticles.com is a free resource containing published articles from more than 300 magazines and journals that cover many topics including business, health, society, entertainment, and more.
• MagPortal.com

Using MagPortal.com you can find articles from free online magazines covering many topics including business, computers, education, entertainment, finance, health, pets, science, and sports.

• General Research Sites
• The Argus Clearinghouse
• Finding Data on the Internet
• INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
• Information Please
• Internet Reference Collection
• Librarians' Index to the Internet
• What's Hot on the Internet This Week

• Grammar/Writing/Literature/Poetry Sites
• Academy of American Poets
• AllReaders.Com
• The American Heritage® Book of English Usage
• Electronic Journals for Literature
• The Elements of Style
• Familiar Quotations (Bartlett's)
• On-Line Books Page
• Poets' Corner
• Project Gutenberg
• Take Our Word For It

• Evaluating Web Pages
• Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources
• Web Evaluation Criteria

• See the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (LB 2369 .G53 1999) in the LTCC Library.
• Check these online sites:
• A Guide for Writing Research Papers
• Modern Language Association (MLA) Style
• MLA Style Guide

If you have questions about the resources listed on this webpage, please don't hesitate to visit the Library (we're located on the second floor of the Main Campus, Room A201) or call 530-541-4660 ext. 262 for assistance.

For LTCC Library general information, please see our Library Information webpage.