Finding Information for

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Finding Information for Latin American Studies
205 by Denis Lacroix French/Spanish Librarian
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Session Outline

• Finding Basic Research Information and Subject
  Guides
• Finding Books by author, subject, title, numbers
• Boolean, Truncation, and Advanced Searching
• Finding Articles in Periodicals using Databases

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The Research Question
HAPI
Art Abstracts
HLAS

• Femininity and identity in Frida Kahlo?

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MAPIT and GETIT

• Generate
• Explore
• Try various resources
• Investigate other strategies
• Try, try again

• Material
• Audience
• Perspective
• Intention
• Topic

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Finding Basic Research Tools

• Subject Guides
• Click on the Subjects tab on the Library home
  page.
• Click on Humanities and Social Sciences.
• Under Area Studies,
• Click on Latin American Studies.
• On the right-hand side, click on
• Information Sources on Latin America.

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Finding Background Information

• Reference collection has encyclopedias,
  dictionaries...
• Mexico F 1201 F 1386
• Central America F 1421 F 1567
• Caribbean area F 1601 F 2199
• Folklore GR 1xx
• Latin American Art N 6550 N 6739
• Motion pictures PN 1993.5
• Music ML 3565 ML 3575
• Online Literature Resource Center

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Finding Books

• By author
• By title
• Request or place a hold on a book
• By numbers

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Sample Library Catalogue Record
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Advanced Searching

• Finding books about a topic
• Think of variant or similar terms for each
  concept, e.g. culture or folklore, mural or
  painting
• Use Boolean operators, e.g. and, or.
• Use truncation symbols ?

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Finding Articles in Periodicals

• Periodicals contain articles.
• The library catalogue cannot be used to find
  articles on your research topic. Instead, you
  need to search databases.
• Databases are all different
• some contain full-text articles,
• some list only citations and abstracts,
• others have a mixture of both.

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Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)

• Click on Search
• Subject mexic and Keyword mural
• Save citations to bibliography and send by
  e-mail or print.
• Search for periodical in Library catalogue.
• Is periodical available online or in print?

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Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS)

• Go to Expert Search.
• Search 1 Subject kahlo frida
• Search 2 Subject paint and mural and mexico
• Click on Search for variants and Search.
• Click on citation number.
• Click on related article subjects for more
  articles.

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Art Abstracts

• Searching examples
• To find an article click on
  or search the library catalogue
• To save, mail, or print citations
• Click on Add folder icon beside the citation,
• Click on Folder has items icon above results
  list,
• Click on your choice of action.
• Provide limits to your search

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More Databases

• Click on the Subjects tab on the Library home
  page.
• Click on Humanities and Social Sciences.
• Under Area Studies
• Click on Latin American Studies.
• Scroll down through the databases and find more
  information on each by clicking on More Info.
• Other Databases to consider
• Humanities Abstracts
• PAIS International
• MLA

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Other Databases

• Country info. World Almanac, CountryWatch
• News Paper of Record, Factiva,
  Info-latinoamerica
• Statistics Latin American Databank, Oxford
  Latin American Economic History Database (OxLAD),
  Statistical Universe

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Lets Practice

• Find the Latin American Studies Subject Guide.
• Find an encyclopaedia on the Caribbean.
• Find a book on African slavery in Latin America.
• Find a periodical article on Mayan women using
  the HAPI database.
• Find Cultural Anthropology, 2001 Aug 16 (3)
  314-53. (journal article)

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Reference Services

• This slide show is downloadable
  athttp//www.library.ualberta.ca/subject/latinam
  ericanstudies/LA_ST_205_Presentation.ppt
• Contact Librarians through Chat reference,
  E-mail reference, telephone reference, or
  in-person at the reference deskhttp//www.library
  .ualberta.ca/askus/
• Good luck in your searches!