Finding Guide to the California Indian Library Collections: California State Library. Volume 8, Bibliographies

Abstract

The California Indian Library Collections (CILC) was funded with the aim of returning unique cultural materials in three media types--sound recordings, photographs, and text--to California's Native Americans and making the collections available to all citizens through their local libraries. This finding guide includes instructions on how to order copies of written materials, followed by a guide to the bibliographic format used in the finding guide. The bibliographies in this section are divided into two types: tribal bibliographies and a general bibliography. The tribal bibliographies represent the textual materials pertaining to each of the specific tribes represented in the holdings of the Sonoma County collection of the CILC. The general bibliography is the composite guide to all written materials. There are five types of citations represented in these bibliographies: books; reprints of books; chapters or parts of books; journal articles; and unpublished materials. Three pieces of information are included in each citation: the California State Library call number; the libraries where the work is held; and the tribes treated in the work. (JLB)