Because of the time it takes to publish, books usually contain more dated information than will be found in periodicals (newspapers, magazines, and journals).
Books are good sources for:
Reference books offer concise and authoritative information on a topic. They are often compilations from many contributors. Due to a lengthy publication process the information in reference books is less current than that in periodicals (newspapers, magazines, journals) or even non-reference books.
Reference books include:
Briggs Library uses the Library of Congress call number system to catalog books. Following are call number ranges for books about languages. Use the library's Quick Search for more precise searching.
French
DC French History and Culture
PC 2001-3761 French Language
PQ 1-3999 French Literature
German
DD German History and Culture
PF 3001-5999 German Language
PT 1-4897 German Literature
Spanish
DP1-402 Spanish History and Culture
F1201-3799 Latin American History and Culture
PC 4001-4977 Spanish Language
PQ 6001-8929 Spanish Literature
PQ 7081-8560 Latin American Literature
New Lakota Dictionary by 
An Encyclopaedia of Language by On the library's home page use the Quick Search option to access PRIMO Discovery Service. Quick Search searches the library's catalog and a number of the library's databases simultaneously. After you conduct a search, use the Source Type limiter in the left-hand pane and select Books to limit to this source type.
Search thousands of library catalogs all at once.
Both Quick Search and WorldCat allow you to limit your results by language. After you conduct a search, use the language limiter to narrow your results to just those in a specific language.
