Social Sciences & History Librarian
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- Searching Beyond Randall Libraryis a guide to searching beyond Randall Library for hard-to-find items.
Search the Library Catalog
The library catalog uses Library of Congress Subject Headings. The list of authorized subject headings is available online from the Library of Congress Classification/Subject Headings database. However, you can also start with keyword searches to gather some relevant titles, then look at their subject headings to discover the official terms to use.
Search Tips:
- Case does not matter. Punctuation marks are not needed.
- Keyword searches will likely retrieve something on your subject. This type of search looks in practically all parts of the catalog record, and is the only way to access the data in the Contents Notes field of records. However, if you are not using the terms catalogers use to identify a subject, keyword searches may actually retrieve fewer items than a subject search.
- Subject searches use a controlled vocabulary, bring more consistency to searches and organizing records by subtopics. Library of Congress Subject Headings are used in both the local catalog and in WorldCat. Even if Randall Library does not have books listed in the catalog under these headings, you will find them in WorldCat (and perhaps in other databases using LC Subject Headings.)
The Library of Congress Subject Headings for Fascism and Antifascism are:
- Fascism
- Fascism and art
- Fascism and culture
- Fascism and culture in literature
- Fascism and education
- Fascism and freemasonry
- Fascism and literature
- Fascism and motion pictures
- Fascism and sex
- Fascism and the Catholic Church
- Fascism and theater
- Fascism and women
- Fascism and youth
- Fascism in art
- Fascism in literature
- Fascism in motion pictures
- Fascist aesthetics
- Fascist economics
- Fascist ethics
- Fascist propaganda
- Fascists
- Jewish fascists
- National socialism
- Women fascists
Anti-fascist movements
- Anti-fascist movements in literature
- Anti-fascist movements in motion pictures
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- [country or region, e.g., France]
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Assassination attempt, 1944 (July 20)
- Operation Valkyrie, 1944
Under countries as subjects, you will find many chronologic subdivisions corresponding to major events in that country's history. You will also find separate headings for specific events.
- Germany -- Church history -- 1933-1945
- Germany -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945
- Germany -- Economic policy -- 1918-1933
- Germany -- Economic policy -- 1933-1945
- Germany -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 1933-1945
- Germany -- Foreign relations -- 1918-1933
- Germany -- Foreign relations -- 1933-1945
- Germany -- Foreign relations -- Austria (also use German-Austrian Pact, July 1936)
- Germany -- History -- 1918-1933
- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945
- Germany -- History -- Allied occupation, 1918-1930
- Germany -- History -- Beer Hall Putsch, 1923
- Germany -- History -- Bombardment, 1940-1945
- Germany -- History -- Night of the Long Knives, 1934
- Germany -- Politics and government -- 1918-1933
- Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945
- Germany -- Religion -- 1933-1945
- Germany -- Social conditions -- 1918-1933
- Germany -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945
- Anschluss movement, 1918-1938
- Church and state -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945
- General Strike, Germany, 1920
- German Christian Movement
- Kristallnacht, 1938
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Deportations from Germany
- Italy -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945
- Italy -- Foreign relations -- 1870-1914
- Italy -- Foreign relations -- 1914-1945
- Italy -- History -- 1870-1914
- Italy -- History -- 1914-1922
- Italy -- History -- 1914-1945
- Italy -- History -- 1922-1945
- Italy -- History -- Allied occupation, 1943-1947
- Italy -- History -- German occupation, 1943-1945
- Italy -- History -- Grand Council, 1943
- Italy -- History, Military -- 1914-1945
- Italy -- Politics and government -- 1870-1914
- Italy -- Politics and government -- 1914-1922
- Italy -- Politics and government -- 1922-1945
- Italy -- Politics and government -- 1943-1947
- Italy -- Social conditions -- 1918-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Deportations from Italy
- Spain -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1975
- Spain -- Foreign relations -- 1931-1939
- Spain -- Foreign relations -- 1939-1975
- Spain -- History -- 1939-1975
- Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939
- Spain -- Politics and government -- 1923-1930
- Spain -- Politics and government -- 1931-1939
- Spain -- Politics and government -- 1939-1945
- Spain -- Politics and government -- 1939-1975
- Spain -- Social conditions -- 1939-1975
Also consider keyword searches on personal names relevant to the fascism and antifascism. Typically, names are entered with the last name first, e.g., Mussolini, Benito. Do both Author and Subject searches to find books by and about the individual.