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Getting
Started
Beyond textbooks used in class, there are
dictionaries, pronunciation guides, and
reference works to help you develop skills
in your new language and do research on
topics of interest around the world. Here
are some examples:
Dictionaries
Oxford-Hachette
French dictionary : French-English,
English-French
REF PC2640
.O83 1994
Collins German-English,
English-German Dictionary
REF
PF3640 .C68 1995
Oxford
Starter Japanese Dictionary
BOOK
STACKS PL679 .O946 2000b
American
Heritage Spanish Dictionary:
Spanish/English, Inglés/Español
REF
PC4640 .A47 2001
Pronunciation
and Usage
Using
French: A Guide to Contemporary Usage
BOOK
STACKS PC2460 .B37 2000
Using German Synonyms
BOOK
STACKS PF3591 .D87 2000
Dictionary of Japanese
Particles
BOOK STACKS
PL601 .K39 1999
Writer's
Reference Guide to Spanish
REF
PC4410 .F68 1999
Other
Resources
Oxford
Guide to Film Studies
BOOK
STACKS PN1995.9 .O93 1998
Spanish
Women Writers: A Bio-bibliographical
Source Book
REF PQ6055
.S63 1993
Who's Who in
the World
REF CT120 .W5 2004
Books
To develop your reading skills, practice
helps! CSUSM offers general literature for
reading in a variety of languages. Also, the materials
held in the Language Learning Center are listed in the
library catalog to show the great resources available there.
Books at Cal State
San Marcos
Here are several strategies for successful searching
in the Library Catalog:
Keyword search
In the simple search screen, type your
topic in the KEYWORD search and use
the Modify Search function to restrict
the search once you have the list of
results. The Modify Search button allows
you to choose from the language options
and brings back texts and movies in
both English (translated from the language
requested) and materials published in
the language.
Genre Search
In the simple search screen, select
the Genre Search option to look for the categories of
materials we have in the collection in your
language (type in the name of the language
and examine the choices that appear.) This
will search for any language you type
in, but don't have every language represented.
Pre-limited Search by Language
There are some collections we have identified in our
catalog due to there being active courses in these languages.
Using the catalog's Advanced Search, type in one of the
following search terms and choose the SUBJECT OR GENRE
option.
Other options to locate
books and videos:
Circuit (1-3
day delivery)
Search the collections of other San Diego
area libraries -- about 3,000,000 books.
Find and request books directly online;
pick them up at our Library in 1-3 days.
WorldCat
(5-10 day delivery)
Search the collections of libraries world-wide
-- about 52,000,000 books. Find a book
in this database, and fill-out an Interlibrary
Loan delivery request. Book will be
delivered to Library for pickup.
Browse the Book Stacks
Sometimes, just looking
through the shelves can turn up works you would not have
considered otherwise. Using the Library of Congress
subject system, languages are shelved in the P call number
area. The Library of Congress provides a list of the
subclasses in the P area so you can see how this is
organized.
Useful Subject Terms
Library catalogs use specific subject
headings to group related books together.
This is different from the genre search
discussed above in that genre headings
address the specific format and writing
style, but subject headings identify the
topic of the work.
Finding a Person in the Catalog
What type of search depends on whether
you are looking for works BY or works
ABOUT the person.
Looking for works by a specific author?
Use the AUTHOR search option and type the
name in lastname, firstname order.
Be sure to spell correctly! A search on
Borges, Jorge Luis as author
brings back 64 works that he wrote in the
CSUSM collection. A similar search through
CIRCUIT will return even more.
Looking for works about an author?
Borges, Jorge Luis as
a SUBJECT search brings back 21 different
subject headings, some of which have a
number of works attached (23 titles have
the subject heading 'criticism and interpretation'.)
Notice the lastname, firstname
order!
News
& Newspapers
Journal and newspaper articles are
found in our research databases. Several
databases provide material in your chosen
language and other databases address topics you
may be researching for your class. They
all include some of the latest news and
research in the field. To find articles,
you need to select an appropriate database
and if you need help, we are here! This
is a listing of some of the databases with
languages other than English.
Ethnic NewsWatch
Full-text ethnic newspapers, searchable
in English or Spanish.
Lexis Nexis Academic
Provides access to a wide range of news,
business, legal, and reference information.
Of special note are the "World News"
and "Non-English Language News"
portions of this huge collection (look
under the NEWS section in the left navigation
bar.)
ProQuest Newspapers
Includes coverage of over 300 major U.S.
and international newspapers, such as
The New York Times, Los Angeles Times,
Chicago Tribune.
Online Newspapers, Magazines
and News Agencies
A good means to practice your reading
skills. Some are offered in English language
versions as well--that can help if you want
to check your understanding of what you
are reading.
French
German
Japanese
Spanish
Journal
Articles
Journal and most newspaper articles are
found through research databases. Several
databases provide material in your chosen
language and others address topics you may
be researching for your class. They all include
some of the latest news and research in the
field. To find articles, you need to select
an appropriate database and if you need help,
we are here!
Some databases do not offer
full text of the articles. Use the
 button
to check our other resources for full text.
This is a listing of some of
the databases with languages other than English.
Most Useful Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
Provides abstracts of articles from about 2,000 journals (published worldwide), coverage of recent books, book review citations and dissertation listings.
Coverage: 1973→current ERIC
A national database of education literature, including reports and journal articles.
Coverage: 1966→current MLA
Includes abstracts of articles from critical literary and language journals.
Coverage: 1963→current JSTOR
Contains (EXCEPT for the latest five years) core scholarly journals in sociology, history, economics, political science, mathematics, African-American & Asian studies, literature, humanities, music, and biological, health & general sciences.
Coverage: 1838→2003 Project Muse
Full-text coverage for hundreds of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics
Coverage: 1993→current
Also Useful Chicano Database
Abstracts for books, journal articles and other material about Mexican-Americans.
Coverage: 1900→current ClasePeriodica
Search 2,600 scholarly Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities.
Coverage: 1975→current MAS Ultra - School Edition
Provides full-text for over 460 general interest and current events magazines.
Coverage: 1985→current ScienceDirect
Provides full text access to over 1,000 journals covering all fields of science.
Coverage: 1995→current Sociological Abstracts
Provides access to the latest international findings in theoretical and applied sociology, social science, and political science.
Coverage: 1963→current
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Media
at CSUSM Want to watch a film or listen to a CD
in your language? We have materials in the
library collection to meet your needs. There
are different ways to find items, dependent
on what you are doing--language practice
or researching a specific topic.
Use the search strategies outlined in
BOOKS and when modifying the search to
the language you need, add another limiter
by choosing Location=Media.
Online
Sources
There are a wide variety of online language
resources, some are of questionable quality,
but others are very good. Be careful and
do further research before accepting anything
posted as factual. All information is subject
to an author's bias that might exclude important
information.
Digital
South Asia Library provides access to teaching
tools as well as reference and reading texts.
Ethnologue:
Languages of the World
information on the 6912
known languages of the world.
Kidon
Media-Link Pick your country or
region to view links to online news, radio
and TV sources. Many available in two or
more languages.
Gruzovik's Global Glossaries Guide
Links
to dual-language dictionaries as well as thesauri.
Speech
Accent Archive from
George Mason University provides sound clips of native and
non-native speakers for comparison of different speech
patterns.
General and Government
Websites
Most countries have websites, which
may be the official government site with
links to education, culture, research
or other information to help you in your
research. Some sites are aimed towards
tourism or provide a very biased and restricted
view of the country, so may not be useful
for research, but still useful for reading
practice.
How to tell if you have the country's official site? Look
at the domain name. It should NOT be a .org or .com. The country
code (with the exception of the United
States) identifies the country's official
server (examples are .fr is for France,
.es is for Spain). A complete list of
official national websites is at Northwestern
University's
Foreign Governments site. The Internet
Assigned Numbers Authority site provides
the list of domain names for all countries
of the world.
Citing
Your Sources
Citation Style Guides page
provided by CSUSM on some of
the more popular citation styles (APA, MLA,
and Chicago/Turabian to name a few.)
Diana
Hacker's Guide on Research and Documentation
provides through information and examples on citing
using APA, MLA, Chicago and CSA citation styles for
bibliographies and footnotes as well as citing in text.
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