Subject Guide for Languages
- Finding Articles
- Finding Foreign Language News Articles
- Finding Authoritative Web Sites
- Finding Books, Videos, DVDs, & CDs
- Finding Online Books
FINDING ARTICLES
Humanities Index
This is an index of the world’s leading arts and humanities journals. (April 1974 to September 2000). Located on the first floor with the reference books.
DATABASES
| EBSCO
Education & ERIC |
About |
| Literature | About |
| JSTOR | About |
FINDING FOREIGN LANGUAGE NEWS ARTICLES
LexisNexis
- Deutsche Presse
- Toute La Presse - Français
- Italian Language News Sources
- Spanish Language News Combined
FINDING AUTHORITATIVE WEB SITES
Alvernia Library’s Internet Reference Library
The Internet Reference Library has a list of selected Foreign Language Web sites. The Internet Reference Library can be accessed from the Resources page of the Library Web site.
Alvernia Library Research Page
The Research Guides page, listed under Research Help on the Alvernia Library Research page, links to sources for finding and evaluating Web sites.
FINDING BOOKS, VIDEOS, DVDS, & CDS
WorldCat 179 million records
This Online Union Catalog lists holdings from libraries across the world. Searches can be conducted across all libraries or limited to the Alvernia Library collection. Searches can also be limited to specific types of documents such as books, visual materials and Internet resources. (dates of coverage: 2100 B.C. – present)
Requesting a book from this collection only takes a minute. Click on the Borrow this item from another library link. Submit the form with your Alvernia ID number and allow two weeks for delivery of the requested book.
Alvernia's Catalog is the best tool for finding items in Alvernia Library's collection. You can search for books, audiobooks, books in the Best Seller collection, audio-visual materials (videos, DVD's and CD's), course reserves, and journals in our print collection. Item records indicate if the item is available. Students, faculty and staff with an Alvernia ID card can place a hold on items that are currently in circulation.
The Dewey Decimal System is used to classify books in the Alvernia Library collection. Most works on languages are located in the 400 section.
Examples of books with background information and reference sources are listed below:
Dictionary of Languages R403 D137
The English Language R420 C957 2003
Collins German Dictionary R433.21 C712
Heath's Standard French and English Dictionary R443.2 M288
Garzanti Comprehensive Italian-English English-Italian Dictionary R453.2 H431
The American Heritage Spanish Dictionary R463.21 A512 2001
A Latin Dictionary R473.2 L673
Greek Dictionary R483 C614
Spanish-English, English-Spanish Medical Dictionary R610.3 M141 2005
FINDING ONLINE BOOKS
A collection of 12,000 eBooks is now accessible from NetLibrary. eBooks are full text electronic versions that can be borrowed and returned over the Internet.
Examples of language ebooks include:
- 2000 Bilingual Phrases: Level 4 (2000)
- CliffsStudySolver Spanish 1 (2003)
- Countdown to Spanish: Learn to Communicate in 24 Hours (2004)
- Begin French for the Utterly Confused (2003)
- Better Reading French: A Reader and Guide to Improving Your Understanding Written French (2003)
- French Verb Drills (2004)
- German (2000)
- The German Language and the Real World: Sociolinguistic, Cultural, and Pragmatic Perspectives On Contemporary German (1998)
- Intensifiers in English and German: A Comparison (2000)
- The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Italian (2001)
- Language and Society in a Changing Italy (2001)
Updated: January 8, 2009