Books remain important to literature and related disciplines. OneSearch contains records of items owned at the University of Arkansas Libraries, the Law Library, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

Primary Works

Fictional works are often not assigned assigned subject headings. Instead, use Advanced Search in OneSearch by author or title search to locate them. For example:

sachs nelly

goethe johann wolfgang von 1749-1832

barfüssiger februar

Hint: OneSearch generally treats the Eszett (ß) and "ss" as equivalent. The same is true for umlauts--you may enter vowels with or without them. However, you can often catch variants by using the same terms and substituting "ae," "oe," or "ue".

Secondary (Critical) Works

Using OneSearch Advanced Search by field "subject" allows considerable precision.

For general works, use headings such as:

• german literature history and criticism

• german literature 20th century history and criticism

For works about a particular author, try searches like the following:

• kaminer wladimir 1967-

• grass gunter 1927- criticism and interpretation

• schiller friedrich 1759 1805 bibliography

You may also search for authors by group, such as:

• novelists german

• poets german

• german literature women authors

For materials about specific literary genres, try searches like these:

• german fiction

• german poetry

• german drama

If you are looking for a particular literary period, search for one of the following:

• german literature old high german 750-1050

• german literature middle high german 1050-1500

• german literature early modern 1500-1700

• german literature 18th century

• german literature 19th century

• german literature 20th century

• german literature 21st century

Hint: These time periods can be used with groups of authors and genre headings also.

WorldCat enables you to search for items beyond Fayetteville. If you find a citation in WorldCat or encounter one in a printed list of references, please check OneSearch to see if it is locally available.

Most searchers rely exclusively on keywords to retrieve records in online catalogs. If you wish to retrieve more precise results, try searching by controlled vocabulary for your topic, often referred to as "subject headings" or "descriptors." And you can best search by author by typing the last name before the first name.

Moreover, when searching Library of Congress Subject headings in OneSearch:

• the subheading criticism and interpretation is used with the name of a person;

• the subheading history and criticism is used with a category of literature.

If we don't own a book you need, either in print or online, you most likely can obtain it via the Libraries' ILL service, ILLiad. The login is below. You may also suggest titles for purchase by contacting me.