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FYS - Spanish and Spanglish in U.S. Media - O. Balam (Fall 2024): FINDING BOOKS

CONSORT

Search the CONSORT CATALOG for items held by CONSORT Libraries. Consort is a shared catalog for the following schools: The College of Wooster, Denison University, Kenyon College, and Ohio Wesleyan University. You can request books held in other CONSORT libraries directly through the CONSORT system.  They will be placed on hold for you at the Andrews Circulation Desk.

OhioLINK

Search the OhioLINK CATALOG for items held by OhioLINK Libraries. You can request books held in other OhioLINK libraries directly through the OhioLINK system. They will be placed on hold for you at the Andrews Circulation Desk.

Browsing the Collection

History materials are found in the following areas of the library:

Woo Reference

Woo Main

Woo Oversize

Woo Periodicals

History materials will be in the C (Auxilary Sciences of History), D (World History), E & F (History of the Americas) classification areas. Follow the link to see a detailed outline.

 

SEARCH STRATEGY

NARROW YOUR TOPIC

Key Words

•Use AND between key words to narrow your topics 

Example:  Searching just SPANGLISH will bring up all entries that contain SPANGLISH.  

Searching SPANGLISH and IDENTITY will bring up only those entries on SPANGLISH that deal with IDENTITY 

If you search, SPANGLISH and IDENTITY and TRANSLATION the results will bring up only those entries that deal with all three variables--SPANGLISH, IDENTITY, TRANSLATION.

•Also, you can use * to allow for all extensions of a Key Word.

Example: TRANSLAT* will bring up TRANSLATE, TRANSLATING, TRANSLATION, TRANSLATOR

 

 

By FORMAT, LANGUAGE, LOCATION, DATE OF PUBLICATION

•In CONSORT you can go to the top tool bar to MODIFY SEARCH

•if you are only want INTERNET RESOURCES, click on that option in the COMPUTER FILE box OR  you can limit your search to WOO ONLINE in the LOCATION box

•look at other option boxes, to further refine your results by language or year of publication.

Keywords

Some keywords to consider for this course:


•SPANGLISH

•LANGUAGE AND RACE

•LINGUISTICS AND RACE

•LINGUISTICS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

•SPANISH AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

 

 

 

 

 

LC Subject Headings

Books in the CONSORT and OhioLINK catalogs are assigned Library of Congress (LC)

Subject Headings.

Here are some subject headings to consider for this course:

ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS

HISPANIC AMERICANS ETHNIC IDENTITY

LATIN AMERICANS ETHNIC IDENTITY

LINGUISTIC MINORITIES UNITED STATES

RACISM IN LANGUAGE

SOCIOLINGUISTICS