SPAN 316: Third Year Spanish for Native Speakers

Course Instructor

Loren Chavarria , Senior Instructor of Spanish & Spanish for Heritage Language Learners Program Director

Office: Kidder 142D
Phone: 541-737-3954

Email: loren.chavarria@oregonstate.edu

Course Librarian
Book Catalogs

OSU Library Catalog 

Summit (Orbis Cascades) Catalog   Catalog of academic libraries in Oregon and Washington. You can have books not at OSU sent here in 3-4 days. 

OCLC WorldCat   Holdings of thousands of libraries worldwide, including OSU.  Use to request books not at OSU or in Summit. 

Biblioteca Nacional de Espana   National Library of Spain.  If you find a book you're interested in, check to see if we have  it or if it's in Summit. If it's not, request it through InterLibrary Loan.

 

Films on Reserve

Professor Chavarria has placed these films on Reserve. Ask for them by the call number at the Circulation Desk on the main floor of the library.

Granito de Arena (Grain of Sand) LA 422.G73 2005 

 Peace and Justice in Central America   JX 1954 .A91 1987 

The Official Story (La Historia Oficial)  PN 1995.9 .F67 H57 2004

Funny Dirty Little War (No Havra Mas Penas Ni Olvido) PN 1997.N51 1987

Rojo Amanecer   PN 1995.9 .F67 R64 2000

 

 

 

 

 

 


 


 

 

 

 

Borrowing from other libraries

Books:

First see if a book is available through Summit.   If it's not, request it through InterLibrary Loan

Articles in journals:

Request through InterLibrary Loan .  Articles are delivered electronically, so the turnaround time is frequently very short. 

Research Databases

Many of these databases include the full text of articles.  If a title isn't available online in the database, use the Get This Item/WebBridge link to locate it at Valley or see if it's available online throug another vendor.

Academic Search Premier : all subjects, journals & magazines.

Fuente Academica: academic journals from Latin American publishers

HLAS Online: Handbook of Latin American Studies . Searchable database of scholary sources in Latin Amerian studies, compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress.  

LexisNexis Academic : newspaper and magazine articles, radio and tv news transcripts.  Include Spanish language titles.

Project Muse :  full text journals from university presses

JSTOR : archive of full text journals

Finding copyright-free images online

Search Engines

Wikipedia Commons

Scroll down and look at the content under "By License" to find images in the public domain or licensed for free use.

Flickr - Advanced Search Screen

Here you can limit to images that have been licensed by their creators with a Creative Commons license - telling you what you can legally and ethically do with these photos.

Creative Commons search

Search for audio and image files with Creative Commons' licenses.

Working with you images online

Picnik, edit photos the easy way online

Picnik integrates with Flickr to allow you to search for photos with Creative Commons licenses --then you can use Picknik to edit those images--all online

 

OSU Student Multimedia Services   Multimedia facilities, equipment and technical support for students producing and presenting academic work.

 

Module developed by Anne-Marie Deitering, OSU Libraries 

Selected Web Sources Nunca Mas   CONADEP (National Commission on the Disappeared) Report

The Vanished Gallery   Described as "a humble attempt to bring the voices of the desaparecidos and their loved ones to the world. The vanishing was swift, a burst into a home at night, a few minutes and they were gone - not enough time to be heard. We owe it to them."

Asociacion Madres de Plaza de Mayo  

Argentina: Derechos Humanos   

US State Department Files on Argentina's Dirty War 

 

Desaparecidos

 Desaparecidos

 

 

Style Guides & Writing Resources

Writing resources at OSU
Writing Center

Online Writing Lab

Style Guides
Research and Documentation Online 

Citation Builders  
Online Citation Builder (Univ of N. Carolina Libraries)

Questions & Answers

 

  1. What is the process for finding books we don't have here?
  2. How do I utilize the resources in the library?
  3. How long can you check out a book or article?
  4. How large a poster can we create free of charge?  How long does it take?  What about file formats?
  5. Is there a fiction section of the library? 
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