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Spanish 274: Captives, Clerics, and Corsairs

Who am I and why should you care?

• Dawn Stahura

• I’m your Spanish Librarian/Liaison/Superhero

Today’s Class:

• Rare books. How should you handle these?

• Peer-reviewed, scholarly articles overview

• Libguide

• MLA database and hands-on activity

• Zotero

What’s the Difference?

• What is this “peer-reviewed” business?

• You may need scholarly articles for your assignment.

• Not all journals are scholarly. But how do you tell what’s what?

And just for you…

http://libguides.wellesley.edu/span274

Trouble finding information on your topic?

Think about your topic and where it fits in the hierarchy. What higher class does your topic belong to? Are their subclasses of your topic that could become factors to consider? Encyclopedias can help with this! So can concept mapping!

Cervantes

Treatment of violence

Spanish influence

Captivity narratives

Golden Age

Spanish Literature

Courtly love

And this got me thinking…

Cervante’s love for Dulcinea del Toboso whom he has never actually met.

Dante’s love for Beatrice! he “claims” to have met her twice.

I’m thinking now about courtly love and how both are handled in the respective texts (Don Quixote and La Vita Nuova and Paradiso)

Our quest for information begins!

• MLA International Bibliography Find articles on literature, linguistics, film, and folklore.

• Academic Search Complete Interdisciplinary databases that covers all subjects! Great

place to start just to see “what is out there.”

• Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America publishes scholarly articles in English and Spanish on Cervantes' life and works, reviews, and notes of interest to cervantistas.

The Break Out Session:

Try these databases:

Academic Search Complete

Literature Resource Center

JSTOR

SocINDEX

***Take a look at the Databases “A to Z” list from the Library & Technologies webpage under Research for more options!***

Zotero!

• Free plug-in to Firefox!• All Wellesley campus computers have it!• Has a word plug-in as well.• Collect, Organize, Cite, Sync, and Collaborate!

Let’s look at this article to see how Zotero captures the information for our collections.

Questions? Help?

• I’m available for one-on-one consultations.

• Don’t be shy, I really do want to help you