Canadian Studies

Collection Description

cpotts@library.berkeley.edu (Claude Potts) — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:51:11 -0700

The Library collects materials in all areas of Canadian Studies, including history, literature, culture, and politics. The Library also maintains a strong French-Canadian and Quebec Studies collection.

Canadian Studies reference materials are kept in the Doe Library's North Reading Room. The major part of the collection is located in the Gardner (MAIN) Stacks, with additional materials in Moffitt Library.

Purchase Recommendation

cpotts@library.berkeley.edu (Claude Potts) — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:53:39 -0700

You can suggest items that the Library should consider purchasing. Use the Purchase Recommendation form to submit your suggestion.

New Acquisitions in Canadian Studies

cpotts@library.berkeley.edu (Claude Potts) — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:17:08 -0800

With OskiCat, new acquisitions lists are updated daily. The 15 most recent items in Canadian Studies are listed below while the full list of materials cataloged in the past 60 days can be viewed in html or subscribed to as an rss feed.

Campus Links

cpotts@library.berkeley.edu (Claude Potts) — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:41:19 -0700

Canadian Studies Program
Department of History
Berkeley Language Center

Dictionaries, Thesauri, and Quotations

cpotts@library.berkeley.edu (Claude Potts) — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:35:10 -0700

General and subject specific dictionaries in any language, dual language dictionaries, thesauri, dictionaries of quotations, and acronym lists.

*Blue asterisk indicates that the resource was recently added to the guide.

Online

Bilingual Canadian Dictionary (University of Ottawa)
Larousse.com

Print

Canadian Oxford Dictionary / edited by Katherine Barber. 2nd ed. Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Main Stacks PE3235.C36 2004 & e-book

Dictionary of Canadian French = Dictionnaire du français canadien / Sinclair Robinson, Donald Smith. Toronto: Stoddart, 1990.
Main Stacks PC3637.R59 1990

Dictionnaires de langue française du Canada: lexicographie et société au Québec / Annick Farina; preface de Claude Poirier. Paris: Champion, 2001.
Main Stacks PC3637.F37 2001

Dictionnaire des canadianismes / Gaston Dulong. Nouv. ed., rev. et aug. Sillery, Québec : Septentrion, c1999.
Main Stacks PC3637.D82 1999

Dictionnaire des régionalismes du français parlé des îles de La Madeleine / Chantal Naud. L'Etang-du-Nord [Québec] : Les Editions Vignaud, 1999.
Main Stacks PC3645.I43.N38 1999

Guide to Canadian English usage / Margery Fee and Janice McAlpine. 2nd ed. Toronto; New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Doe Reference PE3235.F44 2007 Dictionaries

Multi dictionnaire de la langue française / Marie-Éva de Villers. 4é ed. Montréal: Québec Amérique, 2003. Collection Langue et culture.
Doe Reference PC2625.V54 2003 Dictionaries

Library Databases

A complete list of licensed databases is available through the Library's Electronic Resource Finder.

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Title Full Text

Biographical Sources

cpotts@library.berkeley.edu (Claude Potts) — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:56:47 -0700

Online

Celebrating Women's Achievements: 21 Pioneers (National Library of Canada)
Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online (University of Toronto and the Université Laval)
Dictionnaire des auteurs de langue française en Amerique du Nord

Print

Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists/ edited by Keir B. Sterling ... [et al.]. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997.
Bioscience QH26.B535 1997 Ref Shelves
Doe Refe QH26.B535 1997 Biographies

Canadian biographical index = Index biographique canadien = Kanadischer biographischer Index / compiled by Laureen Baillie. München: K.G. Saur, 2005.

Doe Refe F1006 .C353 2005 v.1-2 (2005)

Main Stacks F1005 .D5 v.1(1000/1700)-15(1921-1930)

Dictionary of Canadian Biography/Dictionnaire biographique du Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1966-

Main Stacks F1005 .D5 v.1(1000/1700)-15(1921-1930)

Dictionnaire biographique des femmes célèbres et remarquables de notre histoire / Marie-Paule Desjardins. Montréal: Guérin, c2007.
Doe Refe CT3270.D47 2007 Bioographies

Dictionnaire des auteurs de langue française en Amerique du Nord. Reginald Hamel, John Hare, eds. Montréal: Fides, 1989.

Doe Refe PQ3897.A12.H36 1989

Main Stacks CT283.W55 2006

Who's Who in Black Canada 2: Black Success and Black Excellence in Canada: A Contemporary Directory / Dawn P.... [2nd. ed.] Toronto: D.P. Williams, c2006.

Main Stacks CT283.W55 2006

Who's Who in Canada. Toronto, International Press, 1923-2001. Continues: Who's who and why

NRLF/Main Stacks F1005.W6

Who's Who in Canadian Literature. Toronto: Reference Press, 1985-1988.

Main Stacks PR9189.6.W47

Library Databases

Web Portals

cpotts@library.berkeley.edu (Claude Potts) — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:35:54 -0700

Web sites and subject-specific search engines available without restriction. See also Canadian Libraries and Archives under the Research Tools tab.

Online

Canadian Cultural Web Directory (CCWD)
Canadiana
Canadiana: The Canadian Studies Resource Page (Carnegie Mellon)
Early Canadiana Online (within Canadiana)
Library of Congress Portals to the World (Canada)

Encyclopedias and Almanacs

cpotts@library.berkeley.edu (Claude Potts) — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:07:22 -0700

General or subject-specific encyclopedias, almanacs, and other collections of factual information.

Online

The Canadian Encylopedia=L'encyclopédie canadienne

Print

Canadian Encyclopedia of Social Work / Francis J. Turner, editor. Waterloo, Ont: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005.
Social Welfare Reference HV12 .C36 2005
Online via ebrary

Encyclopedia Canadiana. [Editor-in-chief: John E. Robbins] Ottawa, Canadiana Co. [1968]
Main Stacks F1006.E58 1968 v.1-10

*Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples / Paul Robert Magocsi, editor. Toronto; Buffalo: Published for the Multicultural History Society of Ontario by University of Toronto Press, c1999.
Doe Reference F1006.E66 1999

Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies / editor in chief, Jacob Ernest Cooke ; associate editors, W.J. Eccles ... [et al]. New York: C. Scribner's Sons; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, c1993.
Doe Refe E45.E53 1993 v.1-3
Moffitt Refe E45.E53 1993 v.1-3

Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America / editors, John M. Herrick, Paul H. Stuart. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, c2005.
Doe Refe HV12.E497 2005

The Fitzhenry and Whiteside Book of Canadian Facts and Dates / editorial director Richard W. Pound ; supervising... 3rd ed. Markham, Ontario: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, c2005.
Doe Refe F1006.M94 2005

Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies / edited by Mona Baker and Gabriela Saldanha. 2nd ed. London; New York: Routledge, 2009.
Doe Refe P306.E57 2009

Library Databases

Reference Sources for Canadian Studies

cpotts@library.berkeley.edu (Claude Potts) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:13:27 -0700

Use the following types of reference sources to look up information related to Canadian Studies:

Dictionaries, Thesauri and Quotations • Biographical Sources • Encyclopedias and Almanacs • Atlases, Maps and Gazetteers • Web Portals

Atlases, Maps and Gazetteers

cpotts@library.berkeley.edu (Claude Potts) — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:50:11 -0700

Online

Canada (World Factbook)
Earth Sciences & Map Library (UCB)
Maps of Canada (UT Austin Perry-Castañeda Library)
National Atlas of Canada Online

Print

Concise Historical Atlas of Canada / edited by William G. Dean ... [et al.] ; cartography by Geoffrey J. Matthews and Byron Moldofsky. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, [1998]
Earth Sciences fG1116.S1.H52 1998

Library Databases

News Databases, Indexes and Web Sites

cpotts@library.berkeley.edu (Claude Potts) — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:42:23 -0700

Listings (may include abstracts or full text) of articles in newspapers, newsmagazines, broadcast news transcripts or wire services. Also includes web sites of these media, or directories of such sites.

Online

Cable Public Affairs Channel (CPAC)
Canadian-based Publications Online (Carnegie Mellon)
Canada.com
Canadian Newspaper Association
The Canadian Press
Canoe.ca
CBC Front Page
CBC Radio
Le Devoir (Montréal)
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Radio-Canada Nouvelles
Radio Canada International
Le Soleil (Québec City)
Toronto Star

Library Databases

Canadian Libraries and Catalogs

cpotts@library.berkeley.edu (Claude Potts) — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:10:56 -0700

Listings of books and other items belonging to a particular library or, as with union catalogs, a group of libraries, and usually containing information on the location and subject classification of each item. This category also includes national bibliographies, or lists of all books published in a particular country.

Online Resources

Library Databases

Book Reviews

cpotts@library.berkeley.edu (Claude Potts) — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:18:10 -0700

Listings of book and film reviews in journals, magazines, newspapers, etc. included in article databases and indexes, book review indexes, or review journals.

Library Databases

Search the catalogs

cpotts@library.berkeley.edu (Claude Potts) — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:55:04 -0700

Research Tools for Canadian Studies

cpotts@library.berkeley.edu (Claude Potts) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:24:37 -0700

Use bibliographic tools like these to either focus or broaden your research:

Archival Collections and Primary Sources • Article Databases and Indexes • Bibliographies and Subject Guides • Book Review Sources • Dissertation and Theses • Canadian Libraries • News Databases, Indexes and Web Sites

Archival Collections and Primary Sources

cpotts@library.berkeley.edu (Claude Potts) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:37:36 -0700

Use these web sites, print reference sources, or library databases to find primary sources, such as manuscripts, diaries, letters, firsthand accounts, or historical documents on a subject, person, event or issue. See also the library guide Finding Primary Sources and List of Archival Collections on the Berkeley campus.

*Blue asterisk indicates that the resource was recently added to the guide.

Online

Archives de Montréal
Bibliothèques at archives nationales du Québec
Canadian Archival Resources on the Internet
Canadian History Gateway (Academic Info)
Canadiana
Early Canadiana Online (within Canadiana)
National Archives of Canada

Library Databases

The complete list of databases is available through the Library's Electronic Resource Finder.

Dissertations and Theses

cpotts@library.berkeley.edu (Claude Potts) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:40:15 -0800

Find dissertations by searching Proquest Dissertations and Theses (PQDT), which indexes graduate dissertations from over 1,000 North American, and selected European, graduate schools and universities from 1861 to the present. Dissertations published since 1980 include brief abstracts written by the authors and some feature 24-page excerpts. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and some full text coverage for older graduate works.

Also see Find Dissertations and Theses for other specialized sources. Dissertations completed at UC Berkeley can be found in OskiCat, using the feature allowing you to limit to dissertations/theses:

Older dissertations not available full text may be obtained through Interlibrary Loan or using the "Request" option in Melvyl.

For more extensive indexing of doctoral dissertations and theses from Western Europe, here are a few other resources to consult:

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze - Italy
Center for Research Libraries - more than 800,000 dissertations from universities outside the U.S. and Canada
DART: Europe E-theses Portal
Dialnet - Spain
Dissertações e Teses Digitais (DiTeD) - Portugal
The European Library
OPAC SBN - Italy
Portal de tesis digitales de REBIUN (Red de Bibliotecas Universitarias) - Spain
TESEO - Spain
theses.fr - France

Article Indexes and Databases

cpotts@library.berkeley.edu (Claude Potts) — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:07:11 -0700

Listed below is a broad selection of article indexes recommended for research in Canadian Studies. For additional resources, please consult the Library's Electronic Resource Finder.

Online

érudit (select titles only)

Library Databases

Bibliographies and Subject Guides

cpotts@library.berkeley.edu (Claude Potts) — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 11:00:59 -0700

Selected lists of materials in any format organized around a common theme or topic.

Library Databases

*Oxford Bibliographies Online - Medieval Studies, Renaissance and Reformation, etc.

Online Resources

Canadian Literature Archive (University of Manitoba)

Canadian Poetry (University of Toronto Library)

Canada Poetry Archive / Archives de Poésie Canadienne

French Canadian Literature Subject Guide (McGill)

Print Resources

Library and Course Guides for Canadian Studies

cpotts@library.berkeley.edu (Claude Potts) — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:42:20 -0700

Use subject guides and topical bibliographies, course guides, tip sheets, and general guides, created by librarians and library staff, to discover approaches to research.

French 145AC Course Research Guide - The Cultures of Franco-America
Research Guide for French and Francophone Literature (PDF, 21 pages, rev. 6/10)

General Guides
Guides to using the library's catalogs, doing research in the library and on the Internet, and citing your sources.

Canadian Electronic Text Collections

cpotts@library.berkeley.edu (Claude Potts) — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:27:39 -0700

Online Journals

Journals in electronic form, available online either individually or as part of a larger collection. e-journals only available for the Berkeley campus are listed in OskiCat. The California Digital Library maintains a list of e-journals available to all UC libraries.

Canadian Association of Learned Journals (CALJ) (directory only)

Érudit (select titles only)

Library Databases

Digital Collections for Canadian Studies

cpotts@library.berkeley.edu (Claude Potts) — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:57:42 -0700

E-book and e-journal collections, full-text online databases, and other digitized or born digital corpa relevant to Canadian Studies are listed below. Consult Article Databases and Indexes under the Research Tools tab to discover articles available in both print and electronic formats.

Finding E-books • Canadian Electronic Text Collections

Contribute Online

cpotts@library.berkeley.edu (Claude Potts) — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:24:53 -0700

Donations can be made online using the Library Fund Online Gift Form and by designating that your gift is for the Canadian Studies Collection at the bottom of the form.

Contribute by Mail

cpotts@library.berkeley.edu (Claude Potts) — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:25:20 -0700

Please make checks payable to UC Regents and specify that it is for the Canadian Studies Collection. Send along with any instructions regarding the donation to:

Claude H. Potts
Libriarian for Romance Language Collections
218 Doe Library
University of California
Berkeley CA 94720-6000

tel: (510) 643-8966
email: cpotts [at] library.berkeley.edu

For further information about giving to the Library, you may also contact the
The Library Development Office.

Monetary Gifts

cpotts@library.berkeley.edu (Claude Potts) — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:33:29 -0700

Financial support is very important to the future development and ongoing curation of the library's collections. Contributions provide funding for expensive resources, specialized equipment, conservation of rare books, and exhibits or special projects. Financial gifts may be unrestricted or support a specific library program, service, or collection. In addition to cash, the Library welcomes securities and other real or tangible property.

Endowments- Endowment funds may be established with a gift of $50,000 or more to support library collections, programs, projects or positions. These endowed funds provide the University Library, in perpetuity, with an annual income that ensures our collections and programs remain strong and vital regardless of the strength of state and campus budgetary support. Donors may choose to support specific programs, projects, or library materials in a discipline or area of the donor's choice. We encourage interested donors to contact us or the Library Development Office to discuss possible endowment opportunities.

Major Gifts - Significant contributions toward Library enhancements are welcomed and could include a recognition plaque or naming opportunities for improved areas, subject to campus approval procedures.

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Giving to the Canadian Studies Collection

cpotts@library.berkeley.edu (Claude Potts) — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:00:59 -0700

Monetary Gifts: Endowments, Major Gifts, Memorial Gifts, Matching Gifts, Planned Gifts, Bequests, Trusts

Book Donations

Contribute Online or Contribute by Mail

Berkeley’s world-class education and research depend on the ready access offered by the Library to a comprehensive record of human knowledge, together with the latest discoveries in every field of learning.

From rare and precious manuscripts to thousands of titles used in day-to-day research, the University Library’s Canadian collection supports students and faculty in Berkeley’s academic departments and programs. The holdings range from core collections housed in the Doe/Moffitt Libraries to specialized research materials in our fourteen subject specialty libraries. Just as Berkeley’s academic programs consistently rank at the top among their peers worldwide, the Library's collections that support those departments are internationally renowned for their depth and breadth.

The University Library is seeking private support to maintain the excellence of its collections. The cost of building these collections has increased dramatically, due to spiraling book and journal costs, as well as to the declining value of the dollar. It is due, as well, to a burgeoning of new information - a dramatic rise in the number and specialization of journals, the availability of full text and searchable electronic versions of items previously held only in print, and the emergence of new genres of digital content.

Claude H. Potts
Librarian for Romance Language Collections
218 Doe Library
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000

tel: 510.643.8966
fax: 510.643.0315

Book Donations

cpotts@library.berkeley.edu (Claude Potts) — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:55:53 -0700

Gifts of scholarly materials and the results of research have historically represented a significant element in the development of Berkeley's outstanding research collections. We welcome individual gifts, but due to space and staff limitations, we must be judicious in accepting large contributions. Donations of recently published books are welcomed. New book purchases will be checked to ensure titles aren’t already on order.

Please contact Frank Carothers to discuss your donation of books.