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Spanish 81 :
Motherhood in Latino/a and Latin American Literatures

Fall 2007

Library Catalogs, Indexes and Databases

Five College Library Catalog: Catalog of all books, music, video, online resources, etc., in all Five College libraries. Use "author keywords" or "author (last name first)" for books by a writer; search the writer's name as "subject keywords" for books about the writer.
WorldCat: Search for books in a database made up of catalogs from thousands of libraries. Interlibrary Loan service can deliver books not owned by the Five College libraries.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library : Search one of the best collections of materials about the African diaspora. Very good collection of Caribbean materials.
University of Texas Libraries Catalog : Look for ideas and books in the catalog of Referenceone of the world's best library collections from and about Latin America.
MLA International Bibliography: Most important American index to critical studies about all literatures. References to scholarly articles about literature, film, linguistics, and more published since 1963. Try ACLinks to find online articles or catalog searches for the journals in print.
HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index Online): References to articles about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. Covers politcs, social issues, history, etc., as well as literature.
ClasePeriódica: Index of Latin American journals in the arts and humanities.
Women's Studies International : References to articles about all aspects of women's lives in most disciplines.
Academic OneFile and Academic Search Premier: Indexes to articles in many disciplines. Some references back to 1975. Book reviews as well as critical articles. Beware! English articles only.

Journal Locator/Citation Linker See if a journal is available at AC; connect to electronic copies or look in library catalog for print journals.

Reference Sources: Encyclopedias, Handbooks & Dictionaries

Enciclopedia universal en español : Complete Spanish language encyclopedia from Britannica and Diorki, SA. Also includes a Spanish dictionary and a Spanish-English dictionary.
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures (Reference F 1406 E515 2000): Very brief articles on history, people, organizations, etc., from all over the Caribbean.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos & Latinas in the US (Reference E 184 S75 O97 2005) and Encyclopedia Latina (Reference E 184 S75 E587 2005): Essays on people, topics, music, literature, and more. Good for quick background.
Biography Resource Center : Includes biographies of recent authors, lists of their books, notes on reviews, interviews, etc.
Latin American Writers (Reference PQ 7081 A1 L37 1989) and Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature (Reference PQ 7081 A1 E53 1997): Useful for major writers. The Encyclopedia is more up-to-date.
Dictionaries and other help with language from the the Real Academia Española. The best choice for a large Spanish-Spanish dictionary.
Diccionarios from El Mundo. Definitions, syonyms, antonyms, etc.
The Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary (English-Spanish) and The Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary (Spanish-English) : Handy, small dictionaries online from Oxford University Press.

News & Popular Culture

Spanish Language News and Magazines: Links from the MIT Libraries
Newspapers from Latin America from the Latin American Network Information Center at the University of Texas.
Yahoo! Telemundo, Yahoo! México, Yahoo! Argentina: A selection of Yahoo!s for students of Latino and Latin American culture. A good way to assess images in popular culture.
Difusiones de la Televisión en Español: Selected Spanish-language TV stations on the Web.
LANIC: Radio: Radio stations from Latin America.

Citing Sources and Creating Bibliographies

Be sure to credit the sources you use for a research project -- whether printed books and journals or online texts, websites, etc. The Bibliography Styles Handbook: MLA from the University of Illinois tells you how to cite all kinds of sources for courses in literature. Or use The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers at the Reference Desk in Frost Library. Annotated Bibliographies: Here are tips for creating an annotated bibliography from the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Do you have questions about research in this course? Contact Margaret Adams Groesbeck (email:magroesbeck; voice: (413)542-2098)