Subject Specialist Librarian
Karen Liston
Contact:
AQ8554@wayne.edu
(313) 577-5596
You can make an appointment (above), or when I'm available, you can drop in on my Zoom Meeting Room by pasting this URL into your browser: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3135775596 If I'm available, I'll admit you within a few minutes. Try it out - I'd love to see you!
(313) 577-5596
You can make an appointment (above), or when I'm available, you can drop in on my Zoom Meeting Room by pasting this URL into your browser: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3135775596 If I'm available, I'll admit you within a few minutes. Try it out - I'd love to see you!
Subjects: Education, Language and Area Studies
Databases
- MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new windowMLA BIBLIOGRAPHY (online) is the largest and most comprehensive database covering current scholarship in the modern languages, literatures, and folklore. MLA BIBLIOGRAPHY (online) corresponds to the printed annual bibliography of the Modern Language Association.
- Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts This link opens in a new windowLINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE BEHAVIOR ABSTRACTS, LLBA (online) provides selective access to the world's literature on language and language behavior. Corresponds to the printed index of the same name.
- WorldCat This link opens in a new windowOver 36 million records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 11th century.
- Google ScholarGoogle Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
- Hathi TrustCreated by a consortium of research libraries, this digital repository includes alot of public domain archival material. Many of the links lead to publicly accessible full-text, and digitized content searching to the University of Michigan's contributions is very powerful, with full-text only an hour's drive or an interlibrary loan request away.
- Portals to the World (Library of Congress, Washington DC)Online portal to languages, literatures, libraries, search engines and more from countries all over the world.
- Country Studies (Library of Congress, Washington DC)Historical, social, economic, and political analyses of individual countries.
Reference Resources
- Encyclopedia AmericanaThe tabs for "High School" or "Adult Patrons" include links to World Newspapers in over 70 languages, Dictionaries (including the American Heritage Spanish to English and English to Spanish, as well as Roget's Thesaurus (English), and an Interactive World Atlas.
- The Translator's Handbook by Morry Sofer (5th rev. ed.) - Purdy-Kresge Library P 306 .S59 2004A newer edition of this title has been ordered and will arrive soon!
- Scientific and Technical Translation, by Sue Ellen Wright at al - Purdy-Kresge P 306 .A1 A53 v.6 1993American Translators Association Scholarly monograph series, vol. 6.
- Professional issues for translators and interpreters by Deanna L. Hammond - Purdy-Kresge P 306 .A1 A53 v.7 1994American Translators Association scholarly monograph series v. 7
- Translating for Children by Riita Oittinen - Purdy-Kresge PN 1009.5 .T75 O38 2000Click on title for electronic link; paper copy in Purdy-Kresge
Internet Resources
- WordReference.comOnline language dictionaries in many languages
- Real Academia EspanolaThe Academy's webpage for searching the "Diccionario de la lengua española" and the " Diccionario panhispánico de dudas."
- Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new windowElectronic version of: Oxford English dictionary, 2nd ed., New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
- Spanish Language Dictionary for Library Professionalsby Tony Lozano
- Index Translationum : International Bibliography of TranslationsDatabase of translations maintained by UNESCO. Consists of citations only.
- iLoveLanguagesA Gateway to many language-related websites. Use the Language tab to specify language. The Translate tab employs Google's translator in a convenient visual format.
- Biblioteca Digital HispanicaThe National Library of Spain's digital library!
- Hispanic Studies (Intute) - SpanishHigh quality links of academic and cultural interest.
Articles of Note
You may find the following articles interesting!
- "Beyond dictionaries: Understanding information behavior of professional translators"by Marilyn Domas White and Miriam Matteson. Journal of Documentation, Vol. 64, No. 4, 2008, pp. 576-601.
- "Machine translation and human translation: in competition or in complementation?"by John Hutchins. International Journal of Translation, vol. 13, no. 1-2, Jan-Dec 2001, pp. 5-20. Special theme issue on machine translation, edited by Michael S. Blekhman.