Seymour Joseph Guy, Story of Goldilocks, ca. 1870. Oil on canvas. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Fairy and Crane, 18th century (Qing dynasty). Embroidery with silk, pearls, and coral beads. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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To check them out: Take books to the Public Services Desk on the 2nd Floor and show your GWC Student ID (your library card!).
This system of organizing ensures that materials on similar subjects are shelved together. Each item is given a subject heading that corresponds to a call number which identifies the location of the item on a shelf.
Items are arranged on the shelves from left to right, top to bottom, according to call numbers. Call numbers are read in this format:
Short video (2:11) explaining how to locate materials in a college library using the Library of Congress call number system.
Try browsing the "stacks" or bookshelves of the library. You might find something you know and love, or you might find something totally new! The stacks are organized by call number, and each call number range represents a particular subject. This means that books on the same topic will be located in the same general area.
Folklore and fairy tales for children are located in the PZ call number range on the 3rd floor of the LRC. Many of the background resources and folklore from around the world can be found in the GR call number range. Books on mythology from all cultures are grouped in the BL call number range and folklore of the American indigenous populations can be found in the E98-99 call number range.
Imaginary Animals: The Monstrous, the Wondrous and the Human by
This richly illustrated book shows how, despite their liminal role, dog-men, mermaids, and many other imaginary creatures are socially constructed through the same complex play of sensuality and imagination as "real" ones. It traces the history of imaginary animals from Palaeolithic art to the Harry Potter stories. These figures help us psychologically by giving form to our amorphous fears as "monsters", as well as embodying our hopes as "wonders." Yet their greatest service may be to continually challenge our imaginations, directing us beyond the limitations of our conventional beliefs and expectations.
The Penguin Book of the Undead by
The Penguin Book of the Undead teems with roving hordes of dead warriors, corpses trailed by packs of barking dogs, moaning phantoms haunting deserted ruins, evil spirits emerging from burning carcasses in the form of crows, and zombies with pestilential breath. Spanning from the Hebrew scriptures to the Roman Empire, the Scandinavian sagas to medieval Europe, the Protestant Reformation to the Renaissance, this beguiling array of accounts charts our relationship with spirits and apparitions, wraiths and demons over fifteen hundred years, showing the evolution in our thinking about the ability of dead souls to return to the realm of the living--and to warn us about what awaits us in the afterlife.
The Dictionary of Imaginary Places by
From Atlantis to Xanadu and beyond, this dictionary of make-believe takes readers on a tour of more than 1,200 realms invented by storytellers from Homer's day to our own. The history and behavior of the inhabitants of these lands are described in loving detail and are supplemented by more than 200 maps and illustrations that depict the lay of the land in a host of elsewheres.
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