The Central Library Sections have professional library staff that prepare and maintain up-to-date bibliographies, pathfinders (overview guides to resources in the Library), information brochures, and research guides on special topics. These are being published onto our Web site as they are updated and prepared. Some of these guides are published here in PDF format, and may have links to online versions or the item records in our Catalog. Some of these guides may be developed and co-published with other organizations, groups, and/or libraries.

Please contact the Central Library section of your interest to speak with the staff directly about these materials, or your research topic.

Central Library Pathfinders & Documents

• American Ethnic Groups: American Indians (PDF)
• Animated Painting (PDF)
• Andy Warhol's Dream America (PDF)
• Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape (PDF)
• Baseball: Selected Resources at Central Library (PDF)
• Business Reference and Marketing Resources (PDF) Brochure Format | (PDF) Pathfinder Format
• Calder Jewelry (PDF)
• Children's Health: Resources for Parents and Their Kids (PDF)
• College and University Resources (PDF)
• Community Storytelling (PDF)
• Comics, Graphic Novels, Manga, & Anime (PDF)
• Dead Sea Scrolls (PDF)
• Dear Miss Breed Bibliography (PDF)
• Genealogy: Online Research (PDF)
• Georgia O’Keeffe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle (PDF)
• Golf (PDF)
• Government Documents (PDF)
• Image Makers and Rule Breakers: French Art, 1860–1960 (PDF)
• Impressionist Giverny (PDF)
• Islam (PDF)
• Jazz, America’s Art Form (PDF)
• Job Search Web Sites(PDF)
• Key Baseball References: User Guide (PDF)
• Kimono as Art: The Landscapes of Itchiku Kubota (PDF)
• Latin American Art History (PDF)
• Lewis & Clark (PDF)
• Mexican Americans (PDF)
• National American Indian Heritage Month: Recommended Reading (PDF)
• Oceanic Art: A Celebration of Form (PDF)
• Online Research Guide - Downloadable list of all databases (PDF)
• Online Research Guide (Children & Young Adult) - Downloadable list of all children's and young adult databases (PDF)
• Paper Traces: Latin American Prints and Drawings from the Museum's Collection (PDF)
• Personal Views: Regarding Private Collections in San Diego (San Diego Museum of Art) (PDF)
• Rainmaker, and other Stories of San Diego Water History
• Rebuilding and Repairing Your Home After a Fire (PDF)
• Refugee Voices: Africa (PDF)
• San Diego SABR Baseball Research Center brochure (PDF)
• Successful Business Plans (Tideline) (PDF)
• Telephone Directories: An Online Resource Guide (PDF)
• Tips for Teachers (Youth Services) (PDF)
• U.S.-Mexico Border Region (PDF)
• Young Art 2009: Expressing Literature (PDF)

Internet Public Library (IPL) Pathfinders - If you can't find what you need in the above listing, try the Pathfinders at the Internet Public Library. IPL Expert Guides intended to help you get started doing research on a particular topic, both online and at the San Diego Public Library.

Library Catalog

• Online Catalog Search Tips (PDF)
  This PDF brochure is designed to print as a trifold two-page document.