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 PATHFINDERS        TOP
Methuen High School Media Center--Methuen, MA
Pathfinders are pages that offer students selected resources in a variety of media 
on a topic they are researching. They provide a head start for students as they 
begin their research project.

SPAIN

To find books in the MHS Media Center, open Spectrum (the electronic card catalog) located on the student desktop. Type in the topic you want to search. If you don't already have a topic, you can find some lists of books by looking at the following keywords:

Spain
Spanish Inquisition
Spanish Armada

Some titles we have are:

272 STE Stewart, Gail. Life during the Spanish Inquisition.
San Diego, CA : Lucent Books, c1998.
942.055 MAR Martin, Colin, and Parker, Geoffrey. Spanish Armada. New York : W.W. Norton, 1988
946 GRA Grabowski, John F. Spain. San Diego, CA : 
Lucent Books, 2000.
946.08 ROM Romero-Salvado, Francisco J. Twentieth-century Spain : Politics and 
Society in Spain 1898-1998. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.
REF 946 KER Kern, Robert W. The Regions of Spain : A Reference Guide to 
History and Culture. Westport, Conn : Greenwood Press, 1995.
REF 946.081
THO		 Thomas, Hugh. The Spanish Civil War. Rev. and enl. ed. New York : Harper & Row, c1977.
REF 920 ENC Encyclopedia of World Biography (vol. 1).  2nd ed. Detroit : Gale, c1998-c2000.

SELECTED WEB SITES

Si Spain
 www.sispain.org/english/index.html
This site, in association with Ambassador Jose Luis Pardos, promotes free exchange of 
information on Spanish current affairs and its historical, linguistic and cultural development.

History of Spain, Primary Documents
 http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/spain.html
A list of active links of primary documents concerning Spanish History from ancient to 
modern.

Spain--A Country Study
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/estoc.html
From the Library of Congress, this site has an extensive outline of topics about Spanish 
history that are active links to short paragraphs about the outline topic.

Artcyclopedia: Spanish Artists
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/nationalities/Spanish.html
An historical listing of Spanish artists in chronological order from Luis Borrassa in 1350 right 
up to the present.

Spanish Cities:

All About Spain
http://www.red2000.com/spain/index-eng.html
Primarily a tourist guide, this site has some great information about the regions of Spain,
the culture and the history.

Frommer's Travel Guide
 http://www.frommers.com/destinations/spain/
 Select an area or city of Spain to search.

 Fodor's Travel
 http://www.fodors.com/world/europe/index.html
 Select Spain, then the city you want to search.

Lonely Planet Travel Guide
 http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/spain/
 Select the city you want to search.

Espana Destinations
 http://www.spain.info/TourSpain/Destinos

Idealspain.com
 http://www.idealspain.com/Pages/Information/AZ.htm

CyberSpain
 http://www.cyberspain.com/index.html
Covers many Spanish cities.

Travelling in Spain
 http://www.travelinginspain.com/
Information about many different Spanish cities.

Travel.org: The Directory for Travel
http://www.travel.org
Travel info for cities all over the world.

TuSpain
 http://www.tuspain.com/travel/rega.htm
Click on Provinces of Spain Index, then select cities, museums, fiestas, exchange rates, etc.

Restaurants:
 http://www.spaindata.com/data/restaurantfind.shtml


Hotels:
 http://www.spain-hoteles.com

http://venere.com

Money...dollars to Euros:
http://xe.com/ucc
 

ONLINE RESOURCES

Infotrac -- contains databases of magazine articles, a biography resource, and health and business references.  Try Reference Center Gold, Expanded Academic ASAP, and Biography Resource Center.

bigchalk eLibrary -- online reference center including books, magazines, newspapers, pictures, maps, and TV transcripts.

Massachusetts Newsstand -- newspaper articles from the Boston Globe (1980 - current), Boston Herald (1991 - current), and ten other Massachusetts newspapers.

REMOTE ACCESS

They are also available from home. You can gain access to these resources from 
home by going to the Answers...To Go! web page made available from the 
Northeast Massachusetts Regional Library System:

http://www.nmrls.org/answers/dbmvlc.html

and enter your public library card number (from Methuen or any MVLC member 
library) where you are prompted for a patron or user number.

CITING SOURCES

Using these links indicates the user is leaving 
the district server and that linked material
is not necessarily approved by the district.

Edited by Media Staff
11/17/08
Date last edited
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