Italy: Sicily 

Welcome to the Italy: Sicily research guide! Click the tabs above for articles, Web sites and more.

We have many books about Sicily specifically as well as Italy. Need more? See this page: Finding Books. Search with the term "Sicily" or see the subject headings in the column below.

Search for books with ACC Library's online catalog; you may use the link above. Subject headings and keywords like these work well to find books in the ACC Library:

Italy Civilization
Classical antiquities
Sicily
Science, Ancient
Italy history
Military history, Ancient
Military history, Medieval
World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns
Archaeology and Italy
Political science Italy
Music and Italy
Food history
Mediterranean Region -- History

Find these books on the main floor of the ACC Library.  Reference books are always in the library to use. Many more are available; ask a reference librarian for assistance.

• Historical atlas of ancient Rome     Ref. DG209 .C6645 2003
• Encyclopedia of contemporary Italian culture      Ref. DG450 .E53 2000
• One hundred years of economic statistics      Ref. HC106 .L68 1989
• The Continuum complete international encyclopedia of sexuality       Ref. HQ21 .I68 2004

Also see ACC Library research guides on other subjects: Anthropology, Art, Music, more.

You may borrow these travel guidebooks. To see if they're already out, search the book catalog above with "Italy guidebooks".   Italy guidebooks will have information on Sicily.

• Eyewitness Guides: Sicily DG 862 .E94 2009 (DK Guides)
• Italy   DG416 .B45 2005 (Rough Guide)
• Italy   DG416 .K56 2005 (Knopf Guides)

Here’s a list of the most recent circulating books about Sicily in the ACC Library. You’ll notice that many about Italy are in the DG call number – DG is the Library of Congress call number for Italy.

• Fili, Louise. Italianissimo: the quintessential guide to what Italians do best  DG 441 .F55 2008
• Gabaccia, Donna R.,  Militants and migrants : rural Sicilians become American workers      JV 8139.S5 G33 1988
• Holland, Cecelia, Great Maria.  PS 3558.O348 G74 1974
• Finley, M. I.(Moses I.),     A history of Sicily.      1968     DG 866 .F5 VOL.1
• Bernabò Brea, Luigi. Sicily before the Greeks    DG 865 .B423 1966

You may borrow these for four weeks with your student ID or a photo ID. Search the online catalog above more more on your subject.

NetLibrary is a small collection of about 5000 full-text, electronic books. You may view the chapters of the books online. Books range from classic novels to recent books on technology and include reference books. ACC students, faculty and staff may search this from off-campus.

Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free electronic books on the Internet. This collection contains more than 15,000 eBooks. Most are older literary works that are in the public domain in the United States. All may be freely downloaded, read and redistributed for non-commercial use.

LibriVox  offers free audio books downloadable to your IPod. Books are classic novels, etc. that are in public domain; books are read by volunteers.