Resource Web Sites for Interpretative Speech

The Internet is a wonderful research tool by which to locate selections, as well as information about authors for documentation purposes. By all means, use this realm. A word of caution though: prose and poetry selections found only on the Internet and not published in print form are not considered to meet the category requirement of “published.” Students locating material on the Internet may use it in contest only if they are also able to prove that it has been published in hard copy.

The Internet is also an easy way to locate required documentation for the categories.

• Library of Congress Home Page
  http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html
• Dewey Decimal Classification
  http://www.tnrdib.bc.ca/dewey.html
• Booksinprint.com
  Provides an advanced search for fiction and non-fiction.
• The On-Line Books Page
  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/books.html
  Directory of books that can be freely read right on the Internet.
• On-Line Literary Resources
  http://www.english.upen.edu/~jlynch/lit/
  Collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature.
• Bookwire
  http://www.bookwire.com/
  Includes original fiction, reviews, author interview and thousands of annotated links to book-related sites.
• A Celebration of Women Writers
  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/web/people/mmbt/women/writers.html
  This site provides a more in-depth biographical information about women writers and their books. The site is arranged A to Z by the authors last name and in some cases gives a full text version of some of the books or poems they have written. Most sites on the individual pages have pictures on the authors as well as the biography.

Try searching these on-line bookstores for information.

• Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com)
• BarnesandNoble.com (http://www.bn.com)
• Borders (http://www.borders.com)
• The New York Public Library Online (http://www.nypl.org) - The New York Public Library also has an online bookstore on its site.
• Books.com (http://www.books.com)
• A1books (http://www.a1books.com)
• The Association of American University Presses Online Catalog (http://aaup.pupress.princeton.edu) This is a searchable site of University Press Catalogs (for example, the University of Texas Press).
• Kingbooks.com (http://www.kingbooks.com)