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Gateway for
Spanish
hand-picked
resources selected by
Wichita State University's
Humanities Librarian
Books and
Journals
▪ WSU Databases
and
E-Resources
Websites
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Books and Journals |
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Library of Congress
call letters for Spanish include DP1-402 (Spain history),
F1201-1392 (Mexican history), F1401-1419 (Latin
American history), F1421-1575 (Central American history),
F2201-2239 (South American history), PC4001-4977
(Spanish language), and PQ6001-8929 (Hispanic
literature).
Current journals can be found in the Periodicals area on the main floor,
while older issues are bound and placed in the stacks. Please
note: in May 2007 the library began a project to move many
items to compact shelving. These include journals that either no
longer publish and show little evidence of use, or that are available in full text
electronically. Items that go into compact shelving can be used and checked out
on the same terms as when they were in the general stacks, but
they will have to be requested at the Circulation Desk.
The library subscribes to e-journals
on
Spanish language and literature, as well as a number of
current and discontinued print periodicals. Click on the link
for instructions on
accessing the library's Spanish-language materials.
The Reference
Stacks, on the main floor, contain specialized encyclopedias,
dictionaries, etc. These works are catalogued using the same LC system as
books on the other floors, but they do not circulate.
Recommendations from
the Reference Stacks:
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Dictionary of Twentieth Century
Culture: Hispanic Culture of Mexico, Central America,
and the Caribbean, F1234 .H794 1996
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Dictionary of Twentieth Century Culture: Hispanic
Culture of South America, F2237 .H57 1995
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Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature,
PQ781
.A1 E56 1997
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Hispanic Literature
Criticism (2 vols. plus 2-vol. Supplement), PQ781
.A1 H573 1994
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Historical Dictionary of
Modern Spain, 1700-1988, DP192 .H57 1990
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Latin America : a political dictionary,
F1406 .R67 1992
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Latin
American Writers (3 vols.),
PQ7081. A1 L37 1989
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Latinas in the United States : a
historical encyclopedia
(3 vols.), E184 .S75
L35 2006
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The Latino
encyclopedia (6
vols.), E184 .S75 L357 1996
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Medieval Iberia: an
encyclopedia, DP99 .M33 2005
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The
Oxford encyclopedia of Mesoamerican cultures (3
vols.), F1218.6 .O95 2001
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Spanish Women Writers: a bio-bibliographical source book,
PQ 6055 .S63
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Tesoro de la lengua
castellana o española (a facsimile of a 1943
dictionary), PC4620 .C7 2003 but currently in
the Reserve Room
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WSU
Databases and E-Resources
(also available off
campus to current WSU students, staff, and faculty)
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Use the
WSU Libraries Online Catalog from the library's
homepage to search for
books and journals (but not journal articles). Hint: search Journal
Title rather than Title when looking for journals and other
periodicals. The catalog is available to the general public from
offsite. To contact a reference librarian by e-mail, telephone, or
IM/chat, use WUKnows!
Not restricted
to WSU students, staff or faculty.
WSU's
Department of Modern and Classical
Languages and Literatures has information about its programs,
links to resources, and more.
Not restricted to WSU
students, staff or faculty.
Students with three semesters of
college Spanish or the equivalent can earn college credit while
immersed in the language and culture of a beautiful Mexican city
through MCLL's
Summer Program in Puebla.
Not restricted to WSU
students, staff or faculty.
EndNote
is software that helps you store and manage citations for your
research projects and papers. It can format references and
automatically create bibliographies using a variety of style
manuals. Free to download for current WSU students, staff, and
faculty. Here is a very useful
handout to help you use EndNote.
See which
electronic
journals the WSU Libraries subscribes to, or search the
Online Catalog for a specific title.
Use
Humanities Full Text to
find scholarly articles and book reviews from periodicals. HINT: To
find articles written in Spanish, enter Spanish into a
search field and change the search type to Language of
Document. Here's a
video on using WilsonWeb, the collection of databases that
provides Humanities Full Text.
¡Informe! is a full-text database of Spanish-language
articles, both scholarly and popular. Searchable in
Spanish or English.
JSTOR is a collection of
searchable full text, pdf-formatted journals in the Arts, Humanities
and Social Sciences. The journals go back to their first issues up
to the last 3-5 years. In some cases there are links to more current
content. HINT: Clicking the article name in a record will only
download one page at a time. Select the Download link to see or
print an entire PDF article.
The
MLA International Bibliography
is a database of citations of journal articles, conference papers,
dissertations, books, etc. in the areas of literature, language,
linguistics, and folklore from 1963 to the present. Here's a
guide to help you. The
MLA Directory of Periodicals provides important information on
all of the 5,800 journals they index, such as contact information,
submission guidelines, the number of articles submitted and the
number actually published, and so much more.
The MLA Handbook chapter on
how
to cite Internet sources is available online.
Oxford
Reference Online Premium features electronic versions of several
reference works, including translating dictionaries.
Project MUSE is similar to
JSTOR except that the content includes only the most recent few
years (varying, depending upon the journal). In some cases Project
MUSE picks up where JSTOR leaves off.
WorldCat catalogs books, journals, audio, video, and other
resources from hundreds of libraries worldwide.
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Useful and Interesting Websites
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ArteHistoria, from
the Junta de Castilla y León, contains images, videos, and
digital exhibits about the history, culture, and art of this
fascinating region of Spain. In Spanish.
The
Association for Hispanic
Classical Theater offers
Teaching and
Research Tools to help in the study of classical Spanish
literature.
La Biblioteca de las Culturas
Hispánicas hosts the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
is an enormous database of primary and secondary source
materials in Spanish literature, culture, law, history, etc.
Over 4000 images of cathedrals,
mosques, synagogues, palaces, universities and other structures
are available on the University of Wisconsin's
Casselman Archive of Islamic and Mudejar Architecture in Spain.
Searchable.
The
Catedral de Compostela in Spain offers a nice virtual tour.
Sponsored by the Instituto
Cervantes, The
Centro Virtual Cervantes has a wealth of excellent content
about literature, language, and the arts. The
Instituto Cervantes is an
organization dedicated to the world-wide promotion and teaching
of Spanish and Latin American language and culture.
Arizona State University has an
interesting digital exhibit on the
Chicana/Chicano Experience in Arizona.
The BBC News has
Country Profiles for all Hispanic countries. These
pages are rich in resources including fast facts, audio and
video files, and links to media outlets.
From the people who bring you international espionage and covert
operations comes the
CIA World Factbook. Get political, geographical, economic
and other intelligence about Latin America, the Caribbean, and
Spain.
What's up in the European Union?
EUFeeds is a page that
aggregates over 300 newspapers from across the EU and is updated
every 20 minutes. Hover over a headline to get the opening
sentence of an article, or click on a headline to get the whole
story.
The
Internet
Medieval Sourcebook from Fordham University has a nice
collection of scholarly resources for Iberia. Another
excellent site, noteworthy particularly for its digitized
collection of scholarly journals, is
Hispanomedievalismo.
Ten percent of the population of the
United States speak Spanish at home. The Modern Language
Association's
Language Map shows offers nifty tools with which you can
find demographic and other information.
KU has made available free,
full-text online content of
Latin American
Theatre Review. Full text runs from 1967 to the most
recent 5 years. Abstracts and citations are available for
the most recent 5 years.
Legacy: Spain and the United States in the Age of
Independence, 1763–1848 is an online digital exhibit of
portraits, maps, documents, and treaties. Organized by he
National Portrait Gallery, Sociedad Estatal para la Acción
Cultural Exterior de España (SEACEX), Smithsonian Latino Center,
and the Fundación Consejo España-Estados Unidos. In
English or Spanish.
The Library of Congress has put
together
annotated links
for Iberia, the Caribbean, and Latin America covering topics on government, culture,
history, literature, business, and much more.
The University of Central Arkansas
and the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval
Spain provide free full-text e-books through the Library of
Iberian Resources Online (LIBRO).
Content mostly consists of scholarly works published by
university presses, basic texts, and sources in translation.
Searchable.
Los Poetas offers
biographies of Spanish, Caribbean, and Latin American poets,
living or dead, and a generous sampling of their poetry.
The
One
Semester of Spanish Spanish Love Song, just for fun.
The recognized authority on the
Spanish language, the
Real
Academia Española, offers some fabulous searchable resources
including el Diccionario de la Lengua Española, el Diccionario
Panhispánico de Dudas, and el Nuevo Tesora Lexicográfico de la
Lengua Española, which is a collection of digitized pages from
dictionaries dating from 1726 to 1992.
Practice your Spanish and learn
about the cultures of the Spanish-speaking world at
Spanish
Language and Culture with Barbara Kuczun Nelson.
The
Writing Center at WSU can help students with everything from
developing a topic to specific writing problems. They will not write
a paper for you.
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Discussion Lists
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For news about conferences,
publications, productions, and discoveries relating to the
Golden Age of Spanish theatre, visit
Blog Theatrica.
Updated weekly. In Spanish.
The
Mujer-Listserv
exists "to provide an electronic forum to discuss, present,
distribute and create information dealing with Chicanas and/or
Latinas."
SPLAlit, short for Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American
Literature and Culture, contains "reviews and news about Spanish
and Portuguese writing authors, Ibero-American cinema and arts."
In English.
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