German Language and Literature 

The main German Language and Literature collections are found on D-level at MSEL under the following call numbers:

• PM (Compact shelving): Books on German language and literature, cataloged before 7/96.
• PF 1-5999 (Blue Label Section): Books on German language cataloged after 7/96.
• PT 1-4897 (Blue Label Section): Books on German literature cataloged after 7/96.

Guide to locating secondary literature in German Studies: details resources (both online and in print) for finding critical studies on all periods of German literature.

Use a printed bibliography.
Do a Basic Subject search in the catalog on an author's last name and the word "bibliography", to locate them in the library.

Look in the NUC- pre 1956 Imprints on B-Level.
Call Number Z 881.A1C28 QUARTO (South End)

Many reference sources include bibliographies of individual authors,
movements, subjects.

Use the resources right under your nose.
Bibliographies and footnotes in books and articles you have already found are your best source of further reading.

Find books, movies, and more in the libraries by searching below:

Can't find it in WorldCat?

Try the KVK Katalog: an enormous online international database

And the following may help identify older material, verify or correct a citation, and locate obscure material. For more complete resources see: the Guide to Primary Literature.

• The NUC Catalogue indexes books printed before 1956. Includes books printed in Europe and Latin America.
  B Level (North end) Z881.A1C28 QUARTO
• The British Library (Museum) Catalogue indexes books before 1955. Also available online
  General Reference on M Level Z921.B86 1959 QUARTO
  
• Gesamtverzeichnis des deutschsprachigen Schriftums 1911-1965 General Reference Z 2221 .G48
  Gesamtverzeichnis des deutschsprachigen Schriftums (GV): 1700-1910 D-Level Stacks Z 2221 .G46
  Similar to the NUC Catalogue, but for German books.

• Google Books now has the complete page images from thousands of books, most of them "old". Use the Advanced Search for more precision. Try searching on a phrase from the book you're looking for. Or keywords that will easily identify it.
  
• Many texts are online in various e-text archives, like Zeno.org
  
• E-texts in German a page of many links