Books/Book Chapters

Search Portland State Library's catalog, Vikat for books, journals (not individual articles), videos, government information, music and other material owned by the Library. You may search by keywords, author, title or subject headings.

Subject headings allow you to search library catalogs for materials on a particular topic. Often subject heading searching can be more productive than searching by simple keywords. Listed here are some major subject headings of interest for research in Chicano and Latino Studies. Copies of the complete set of the Library of Congress Subject Headings are available at the 2nd floor Reference Desk.

• Mexican Americans (LC uses this term rather than "Chicanos")
• Hispanic Americans (LC uses this term rather than "Latinos")
• Cuban Americans
• Education, Bilingual
• Hispanic Americans Ethnic Identity
• Mexican Americans Ethnic Identity
• Mexican American Women
• Migrant Agricultural Laborers

Finding books elsewhere
Remember, too, that you are not just limited to what we own in our Library. Whenever you are searching, you have the option of expanding your results by clicking on the SUMMIT button in the upper right hand corner of the results screen. This automatically redoes your search in the SUMMIT catalog of the ORBIS/CASCADE Alliance. If you find an item in that catalog that you'd like to see, click on the "REQUEST THIS ITEM" link and follow the directions on the screen.

If you cannot find what you need in the our catalog (VIKAT) or in SUMMIT, then you might try WorldCat. WorldCat contains more than 30 millions records for materials cataloged by the Library of Congress and OCLC member libraries, including most academic and many public libraries in the U.S. Catalog includes books, serials (journals, magazines and newspapers), musical scores, recordings, videos, computer software, films, maps and manuscripts. If you find materials unavailable in the Portland State Library or through SUMMIT, you can request them through Interlibrary Loan.