Your search for information on California Dreams can include books, periodical articles, online databases and authoritative Internet resources.

Use the Library Catalog to find books available in the Cerritos College Library. You can search for books by author, title, subject, or keyword.

The general call number for books relating California History is F860 - F870.

Listed below are some Library of Congress Subject Headings used in the online catalog for books relating to California Dreams.

Add any of these selected subtopics to your main subject California:

Related subjects to use:

Listed below are some Reference Books that may be useful in your research.

Journals and magazines usually provide the most current information on a topic. Journal articles are more scholarly or professional while magazine articles tend to be shorter and more general. Newspaper articles, while not usually scholarly or professional, can give you the most current news and some additional facts on your topic.

To find articles on your topic, use one of the online databases listed below.  These databases usually provide full-text articles on almost every topic. Conduct your search in these databases by using subject headings and keywords similar to those you used to locate books.

For remote access to the library databases, see E-Resource Login & Searching Options.

For historical research, the Library also has print indexes that must be used to find older articles, generally anything published before 1985.

The Internet can be a valuable source for supplementing the information you have gathered from books and periodicals. It is important that you evaluate the information you get from the Internet to determine if it is reliable and useful to your research. A few Internet sites that may be useful are listed here.