How to find all the books on a subject

• Use
  

  There are many strategies for using the Libraries' Catalog.

  Worldcat lists nearly all the books available in US libraries. It is the database used by Interlibrary Services to locate books that we don't have.

   

• Guide to locating secondary literature in German Studies: a specially created guide for Johns Hopkins. Includes many obscure print indexes.
  
  
• Use a printed bibliography.
  Do a Basic Subject search on an author's last name and the word "bibliography", to locate them in the library.
  
  
• Many reference resources in the library include bibliographies of   individual authors, movements, subjects.
  
  
• Check the KVK: simultaneously search everything from Die Deutsche Bibliothek to the Library of Congress to Amazon.de
  
  
• Look in the NUC- pre 1956 Imprints on D-Level. 
  Call Number Z 881.A1C28 QUARTO (near the Compact Shelving)
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Consult the Librarian for German