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This guide will assist you in locating resources for your First-Year Seminar research project and coursework. Be sure to complete the tutorials and quizzes found in the First-Year Seminar Library Guide to sharpen your skills in finding, retrieving, analyzing, evaluating, and using information for college research.

If you have any questions about research or library resources, please contact your embedded librarian, Ethan Lindsay, by using the contact information to the left, or stop by the reference desk at Ablah Library.

Find "Harry Potter" books by J. K. Rowling in the Library Catalog

Females and Harry Potter : Not All That Empowering by Ruthann Mayes-Elma
Call Number: PR6068.O93 Z765 2006
ISBN: 0742537781
Publication Date: 2006
Heroism in the Harry Potter Series by Katrin Berndt (Editor); Lena Steveker (Editor)
Call Number: PR6068.O93 Z538 2011
ISBN: 9781409412441
Publication Date: 2011
The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter : Perspectives on a Literary Phenomenon by Lana A. Whited (Editor, Introduction by)
Call Number: PR6068.O93 Z734 2002
ISBN: 0826214436
Publication Date: 2002
Mysterious Creatures: A Guide to Cryptozoology by George M. Eberhart
Call Number: QL88.3 .E24 2002
ISBN: 1576072835
Publication Date: 2002
The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook : From Cauldron Cakes to Knickerbocker Glory--More Than 150 Magical Recipes for Wizards and Non-Wizards Alike by Dinah Bucholz
Call Number: PZ5 641.5 B92159u8
ISBN: 9781440503252
Publication Date: 2010

Queer Youth and Media Cultures by Christopher Pullen
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781137383556
Publication Date: 2014
Chapter 10: Boy Wizards: Magical and Homosocial Power in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and The Covenant / Katherine Hughes
Nicholas Flammel, His Exposition of the Hieroglyphicall Figures by Flamel, Nicolas
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 1624
Full title: Nicholas Flammel, his exposition of the hieroglyphicall figures which he caused to bee painted vpon an arch in St. Innocents Church-yard, in Paris. Together with the secret booke of Artephius, and the epistle of Iohn Pontanus: concerning both the theoricke and the practicke of the philosophers stone. Faithfully, and (as the maiesty of the thing requireth) religiously done into English out of the French and Latine copies.
Alternate title: Figures hierogliphiques.; Liber secretus artis occultae.; Epistola de lapide philosophorum. Available via Early English Books Online.
Treasures from the Bodleian Library by W. O. Hassall
Call Number: ND2897.O93 H37 1976 FOLIO
ISBN: 0231040601
Publication Date: 1976
Folio & Oversized is located Northeast corner of 3rd floor Ablah Library

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Harry Potter: A History Of Magic : A BBC Production (51 min.)
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first Harry Potter book, the British Library is hosting an exhibition of the real-life magical history behind JK Rowling's beloved classics. With exclusive access to a priceless collection of artifacts, take a tour around this mesmerizing show. Rowling herself examines the most exciting items on display, and opens her private archive to reveal drawings and drafts that have been hidden away for years. As opening night arrives, famous fans marvel at this fascinating trove of delights, like Harry Potter seeing Diagon Alley for the first time.
Harry Potter : J. K. Rowling (25 min.)
From her working-class roots in rural England, Joanne Rowling endured poverty, her mother’s untimely death, a broken marriage, and single motherhood, until the entire Harry Potter saga struck her one day like a bolt from the blue. This program also includes an interview with Tanya Seghatchian, the producer who found Harry Potter for Warner Bros., persuaded Rowling to approve a movie deal, and who worked personally with Rowling on the early films. Additional interviews include Michael Jacobs, VP of the American publisher who turned the marketing of the Harry Potter books into blockbuster events; Melissa Anelli, webmistress of the popular Leaky Cauldron fan site; and Jim Dale, Rowling’s choice of narrator for the American audio books.