Finding Information for

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Finding Information for Latin American Studies
205 by Denis Lacroix French/Spanish Librarian
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Session Outline

• Finding Basic Research Information and Subject
  Guides
• Finding Books by author, subject, title, numbers
• Boolean, Truncation, and Advanced Searching
• Finding Articles in Periodicals using Databases

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The Research Question
HAPI
MLA
HLAS

• Femininity and identity in Frida Kahlo?

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Finding Basic Research Tools

• Subject Guides
• Click on the Subjects tab on the Library home
  page.
• Click on Humanities and Social Sciences.
• Under Area Studies,
• Click on Latin American Studies.
• On the right-hand side, click on
• Information Sources on Latin America.

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Finding Basic Research Tools

• Subject Headings search in the Catalogue
• Central America Encyclopedias
• Caribbean area Encyclopedias
• Mexico -- Encyclopedias
• Mexico Biography Dictionaries
• Mexico and culture limit by Location
  Reference
• Online Literature Resource Center
• Any field

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Finding Books

• By author
• Browse or Keyword Kahlo, Frida
• By title
• The Companion to Latin American Studies
• Request or place a hold on a book
• By numbers
• Any Field FC 1408.3 C6 2003
• About a person or topic as subject
• Containing or Starting with Kahlo, Frida

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Sample Library Catalogue Record
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Advanced Searching

• Finding books about a topic
• Think of variant or similar terms.
• Use Boolean operators, e.g. and, or.
• Any Field Mexico and (mural or painting)
• Subject Mexico and (mural or painting)
• Use truncation symbols ?
• Subject Mexic and (mural or paint)
• Subject mexic Subject wom?n Any Field
  art

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Finding Articles in Periodicals

• Periodicals contain articles.
• The library catalogue cannot be used to find
  articles on your research topic. Instead, you
  need to search databases.
• Databases are all different
• some contain full-text articles,
• some list only citations and abstracts,
• others have a mixture of both.

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MLA International Bibliography

• Searching examples
• SU-Subjects All kahlo frida
• SU kahlo frida and Default Fields femini or
  wom?n or identi or nation
• To find article click on
  or search the library catalogue
• To save, mail, or print citations
• Click on Add folder,
• Click on Folder has items,
• Click on your choice of action.
• Provide limits to your search

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Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)

• Click on Search
• Subject mexic and Keyword mural
• Save citations to bibliography and send by
  e-mail or print.
• Search for periodical in Library catalogue.
• Search, Journal of Latin American Cultural
  Studies
• In Library Catalogue Choose Starting with and
  Periodical Title.
• Periodical is available online!

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Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS)

• Go to Expert Search.
• Subject kahlo frida
• Subject paint and mural and mexico
• Click on Search for variants and Search.
• Click on citation number.
• Click on related article subjects for more
  articles.

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More Databases

• Click on the Subjects tab on the Library home
  page.
• Click on Humanities and Social Sciences.
• Under Area Studies
• Click on Latin American Studies.
• Scroll down through the databases and find more
  information on each by clicking on More Info.
• Other Databases to consider seriously
• Humanities Abstracts
• PAIS International

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Other Databases

• Country info. World Almanacs, CountryWatch
• News Paper of Record, Factiva,
  Info-latinoamerica
• Statistics Latin American Databank, Oxford
  Latin American Economic History Database (OxLAD),
  Statistical Universe

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Lets Practice

• Find the Latin American Studies Subject Guide.
• Find an encyclopedia on Caribbean culture.
• Find a book on African slavery in Latin America.
• Find a periodical article on Mayan womens
  identity using the MLA database.
• Find Cultural Anthropology, 2001 Aug 16 (3)
  314-53. (journal article)

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Reference Services

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  athttp//www.library.ualberta.ca/subject/spanish
  /index.cfm
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  E-mail reference, telephone reference, or
  in-person at the reference desk.http//www.librar
  y.ualberta.ca/helpdesk/
• Good luck in your searches!