Cmo hallar recursos para Espaol 450

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Cómo hallar recursos para Español 450?
por Denis Lacroix Bibliotecario de español y
francés http//www.library.ualberta.ca/instruction
/hss/index.cfm
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Session Outline

• Finding Subject Guides, Reference resources, and
  Bibliographies
• Finding Books by author, subject, title, numbers
• Boolean, Truncation, and Advanced Searching
• Finding online and print Articles in Periodicals
• Databases and ILL
• Print Indexes / Book Reviews

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The Research Question
HAPI
MLA
HLAS
Violence in Crónica de una muerte anunciada?
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Finding Subject Guides

• Click on the Subjects tab on the Library home
  page
• Click on Humanities and Social Sciences
• Under Languages Literatures
• Click on Romance Languages
• Or
• Under Area Studies
• Click on Latin American Studies
• In the yellow strip on the right-hand side, you
  will find QuickStart Guides

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Finding Reference Resources

• Subject Headings
• Violence Latin America
• Social conflict Latin America
• Spanish American Literature Dictionaries
• Literature Resource Center e.g. Advanced
  Search Author Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
• Bibliographies
• e.g. Words Anywhere Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
  and bibliographyWords Anywhere Colombia and
  bibliography

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Finding Books

• By author
• Browse or Keyword García Marquez, Gabriel
• By title
• Vivir para contarla
• Request or place a hold on a book
• About an author as subject
• Browse or Keyword Rulfo, Juan
• Rulfo, Juan and criticism
• Rulfo, Juan and Pedro Páramo

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Advanced Searching

• Finding books about a topic
• Think of variant or similar terms and click
  Advanced Search
• Use Boolean operators, e.g. and, or
• Subject (latin american literature) or
  (Spanish american literature) or (Garcia Marquez,
  Gabriel)
• Words Anywhere violence or power or conflict
  or poder
• Use truncation symbols ?
• Subject (latin america) or (Spanish america)
• Words anywhere violenc or power or conflict
  or poder or crim
• Words anywhere wom?n

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Electronic and Print Indexes

• Use electronic databases or print indexes to
  find periodical articles.
• Use databases to find articles published since
  1980 and print indexes for older material.
• 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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Electronic Databases

• Latin American Resources HAPI, HLAS.
• General Humanities MLA, Humanities Abstracts,
  Web of Science, IBZ.
• Sociological Resources Sociological Abstracts,
  PAIS International.
• Womens Studies Womens Studies International.
• World-wide or Rare Resources (books articles)
  Centre for Research Libraries (CRL), OCLC.
• Theses DAI, Index to Theses. Limitable by
  Book Review

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Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)

• Click on Search (1 concept per field)
• Keyword trag sex imperial conquest Add
  Subject cronica de una muerte anunciada
• Subject cronica de una muerte anunciada
• Save citations to bibliography and send or print
• Search for periodical or book in Library
  catalogue
• Search for Revista Canadiense de Estudios
  Hispánicos, 123 (Spring 1988), 397-413.
• In Library Catalogue Choose Browse and
  Periodical Title in Other Search Options
• Click Full text may be available for online
  access

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Handbook of Latin American Studies

• Go to Basic Search
• Subject cronica de una muerte anunciada
• Full Citation garcia marquez and violen
• Click on Include word variants
• Click on citation number to see full citation.
• Some titles are books (see 2)
• Others are journal articles (see 11)
• Search for Hisp. J., 101, Fall 1988, p. 53-65
• Search for Journals

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DatabasesMLA International Bibliography

• Search for Subject (cronica de una muerte
  anunciada) and Words Anywhere violen or
  imperial or conquest or conflict or trag or
  crim
• Combine searches by checking terms and clicking
  on Combine checked.
• Click on Display and Mark records.
• Search for periodical or book titles in Library
  Catalogue, ( 10 11).
• or click on Check for holdings.

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Print Indexes

• Index to Latin American Periodical
  LiteratureWhat (1929-1970)Where Rutherford
  North Floor 1 Ref. F 1401 I38 folio
• The Complete Caribbeana, 1900-1975 a
  bibliographic guide to the scholarly
  literatureWhere Rutherford North Floor 1 Ref. F
  1608 Z9 C734 1977
• Modern Language Association International
  Bibliography (MLA)What (1921 to 1962)Where
  Rutherford N flr1 Indexes PB 1 M58

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Print Indexes the Sequel

• Book Review IndexWhere Rutherford North Floor 1
  Index Tables Z 1035 A1 B73 What (Since 1965-)
  Provides author and title indexes, but no
  excerpts of the reviews.
• Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in
  Humanities Journals, 1802-1974Where Rutherford
  North Floor 1 Index Tables Z 1035 A1 C7 1982
• Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in
  Scholarly Journals, 1886-1974 Where Ruth. North
  Floor 1 Index Tables Z 1035  A1 C72 1979

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Latin American Studies Websites

• Latin Americanist Research Resources
  Projecthttp//lanic.utexas.edu/project/arl/
• e.g. "cronica de una muerte anunciada"
• Latin America Subject Resources
  http//www-personal.si.umich.edu/rlwls/andes.htm
  l
• Internet Resources for Latin America
  http//dizzy.library.arizona.edu/library/teams/fah
  /subpathpages/Span.Port/latinamer.htm

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Inter-Library Loans (ILL)

• If the document that you are looking for is not
  in our Library Catalogue,
• fill out an ILL electronic form
  http//www.library.ualberta.ca/interlibraryloan/in
  dex.cfm
• indicate, if possible, where your document is
  located in the world.
• using OCLC WorldCat locate your document in
  libraries world-wide by clicking on Libraries
  Worldwide.
• Check the status of your ILL after 2 weeks
  http//www.library.ualberta.ca/interlibraryloan/st
  atus/index.cfm

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Reference Services

• Ask any question.
• Visit us in person (1st floor Rutherford North)
• Try e-mail or chat reference from any computer,
  anywhere!
• Telephone us.

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