All universities and community college libraries in Nevada use the Library of Congress Classification System to organize their books. Books are arranged A-Z, with each letter corresponding to a subject. To find books on this topic, go to the following areas:
| Classification | Topic |
| Special Collections | beginning language books |
| JK1758 | citizenship |
| PE | English Language |
| PC | Spanish, French, Portuguese dictionaries, etc. |
| PJ | Asian languages |
Beginning
Adventures of Connie and Diego/ Las Aventuras de Connie y Diego.
(PC4115 .G333 1994)
Bilingual Cooking/ La Cocina Bilingue. (TX716 A1 B55 1991)
Carlos and the Squash Plant/ Carlos y la Planta de Calabaza. (PZ73 S758 1993)
Cuentos: Tales From the Hispanic Southwest. (GR111 .M49 G74 1980.)
De Colores and Other Latin-American Folk Songs for Children. (M1997 D32 1994)
Diego wants to be/Diego Quiere Ser (PZ73 .R6285 1994).
Estrellita Says Good-Bye To Her Island /Estrellita Se Despide De Su Isla
(PZ73.C2773 Est 2002)
Friends from the Other Side/ Amigos del Otro Lado. (PZ73 A59 1993)
Gullywasher/El Chaparrón torrencial. Joyce Rossi. (PZ7.R7215 Gu 1998)
Ingles Paso-a-Paso/ English Step-by-Step (PE1129, S8, B423)
Laughing tomatoes and Other Spring Poems / Jitomates Risueños y Otros Poemas de Primavera. (PS3551.L22 L38)
Legends from Latin America / Leyendas de Latinoamérica. (PC4127 L4 L39 1995)
Legends from Mexico/ Leyendas de Mexico. ( PC4127 .L4 B3413 1995)
Magic Windows: Cut-Paper Art And Stories / Ventanas Mágicas: Papel Picado Y Relatos (E184.M5 L59 1999)
Remembering Grandma/Recordando a Abuela. (PZ73 A676)
Tortillitas Para Mama and Other Nursery Rhymes. (PQ6267 E4 N87)
Intermediate
Cuentos: Tales From the Hispanic Southwest. (GR111 M49 G74)
Legends from Latin America/ Leyendas de Latinoamérica. (PC4127 L4 L39 1995)
Legends from Mexico/ Leyendas de México. ( PC4127.L4 B3413 1995)
Ode to Walt Whitman and Other Poems. Federico García Lorca. (PQ6613.A763 A213)
Late and posthumous poems: English and Spanish. Pablo Neruda. (PQ8097.N4 A22)
Twentieth-century Latin American poetry: A Bilingual Anthology. (PQ7087.E5 T94 1996)
Gateways to the Sun/Puertas al Sol (New Reader Collection)
This beautiful collection of books covers well-known Hispanic poets, artists, writers, etc. There are 2 separate books for each title – one in English and the other in Spanish. The library owns each book in both English and in Spanish.
Click on Gateways to the Sun to get a list of titles in the collection.
WNC library books are listed in an online catalog shared by most northern Nevada academic libraries. To find in-depth materials, search the library catalog by typing in the topic you are researching. Be sure to use keywords or subjects rather than sentences. Clicking on the links below will perform a search for WNC books about these topics in the library catalog. Please be patient; sometimes these searches can take a few minutes to finish.
| GED: General Educaion Development Tests | |
| Test of English as a Foreign Language | |
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Student Research Center is a good place to start for beginning researchers.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online includes more than 118,000 articles, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus. It also provides links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.
Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 150 popular, magazines for middle and junior high school research.
MAS Ultra - School Edition is oriented to high school students and includes about 600 full text general interest publications
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