Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Notes; INTRODUCTION; PART 1 LIBRARY RESEARCH; 1. BIBLIOGRAPHIC ACCESS SYSTEMS; Location Tools; Identification Tools; 2. SEARCHING LIBRARY CATALOGS; Organization of the Card Catalog; Author, Title, and Subject Searches; Searching the Stacks; 3. SEARCHING INDEXES AND ABSTRACTS; Traditional Indexes; Citation Indexes; Abstracts; Locating Periodicals; 4. SEARCH STRATEGIES; Known-Item Searches; Information Searches; Literature Searches; PART 2 SELECTED REFERENCE WORKS
5. GENERAL REFERENCE MATERIALSGeneral and National Encyclopedias; National Biography; General Indexes; General Bibliographies; 6. GERMAN LANGUAGE; Linguistic Encyclopedias; Modern German; Historical and Regional Languages; Bibliographic Access; 7. GERMAN LITERATURE; General Dictionaries and Encyclopedias; Themes and Motifs; Literary Terminology; Literary History; Individual works; Individual Authors; Bibliographic Access to Secondary Literature; 8. GERMAN CIVILIZATION; History; Prehistory and Folklore; Philosophy and Religion; Art; Music; Cinema; East and West Germany; German-Americana
PART 3 SUPPLEMENTARY RESOURCES9. GUIDES TO REFERENCE WORKS; General Guides; Guides to German Language and Literature; Guides to German Civilization; 10. GUIDES TO WRITING RESEARCH PAPERS; General; Language and Literature; History; Music; 11. COMPUTERIZED LITERATURE SEARCHES; Online Literature Searches; Advantages of Online Searching; Limitations of Online Searching; Data Bases Relating to German Studies; LIBRARY CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS FOR GERMAN STUDIES; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SUBJECT HEADINGS FOR GERMAN STUDIES; GLOSSARY OF TERMS; AUTHOR-TITLE-SUBJECT INDEX