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Subject Guide - Speech

• Selected Reference Books
• Full-Text Books Online
• Print Magazines in Kiefer Library
• Magazine, Journal, & Newspaper Article Databases or Online Periodicals
• Other Library Materials
• Searching the Library Catalog
• Selected Web Resources
• Selected Online Images and Other Media
• Other Library Catalogs

Compiled by Ellen Willis and Carol Satersmoen, English and Speech Librarian Liaisons. Updated 2006.

Selected Reference Books

HV 8142 .T45   2004 Verbal Judo: the Gentle Art of Persuasion

P 301.5.P47 T36 1998 The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue

PN 4121 .G74 1997 David Greenberg’s Simply Speaking! The No-Sweat Way to Prepare and Deliver Presentations

PN 4121 .L72 1998 The Art of Public Speaking

PN 4121 .S8147 1995 The Art of Winning Conversation

PN 4129.15 .D48 2006 Can You Say a Few Words?

PS 668.B3 Representative American Speeches

PS 668.G7 J4 1990 Great Speeches in American History

PS 663.M55 V64 1996 Voices of Multicultural America: Notable Speeches delivered by African, Asian, Hispanic, and Native Americans, 1790-1995

Full-Text Books Online

NetLibrary
This database includes access to such titles as: 101 Ways to Captivate a Business Audience, 7 Steps to Fearless Speaking, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Public Speaking with Confidence, High-impact Public Speaking for Business and the Professions, the Lost Art of the Great Speech.

Print Magazines in Kiefer Library

Congressional Digest

The Library’s subscriptions to speech journals are primarily in electronic format. Full-text articles are available in electronic formats through online databases. (see below)

Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Article Databases or Online Periodicals

Academic Search Premier | Off-Campus Access
Facts on File | Off-Campus Access
LexisNexis | Off-Campus Access
Proquest Research Library | Off-Campus Access

Other Library Materials

Searching the Library Catalog

The above titles are just a few of the resources available for you. The Kiefer Library Catalog, http://tlc.aims.edu/ provides access to resources available at Aims Community College. Use the following subjects (Library of Congress) and keywords to search in the library catalog:

addresses, debates, debating, speeches, orations, oratory,  public speaking

Selected Web Resources

Advanced Public Speaking Institute
Allyn & Bacon Public Speaking Website
Almanac of Policy Issues: Criminal Justice
American Rhetoric's Online Speech Bank
Analysis of a Speech
Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
Douglass: Archives of American Public Address
FindLaw
Gifts of Speech:  Women's Speeches from Around the World
History Channel
The History Place—Great Speeches
Index for Speech Web
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
National Speakers Association
Nonverbal Dictionary Of Gestures, Signs and Body Language
Online Audio Recordings: UCB Speech Archives
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
Preparing Your Speech
School for Champions
Social Justice Speeches
SpeechTips.com
Study Guide.org
Virtual Presentation Assistant
World's Famous Orations

Selected Online Images and Other Media

Public Speaking Power Point Slides

Other Library Catalogs

• High Plains Library District
• Clearview Library District
• Loveland Public Library
• University of Northern Colorado Library Catalog