Modern Languages

A. Mays
Head, Monograph & A-V Acquisitions
Winthrop University

June, 2008

Locating Information in Dacus Library Online

Dacus Online Catalog (DOC)

Dacus Library's online catalog (DOC) allows information to be accessed by author, title and subject. Choose the AUTHOR or TITLE search modes to quickly locate a specific book. CHoose the SUBJECT search mode to find books on topics. You can also use DCOC to find out if Dacus owns any particular journal. Choose the JOURNAL search mode, the type in the exact title of the journal. DOC will tell you if we subscribe to that journal and where we keep it.

Search sample subject headings in DOC now by choosing a subject heading from the list below:

Book Sources

Spanish

Hamel's Comprehensive Bilingual Dictionary of Spanish False Cognates (Gran diccionario de términos equívicos del inglés) Bernard H. Hamel. REFERENCE PC4593 .H36 1998

Multicultural Spanish Dictionary: How Everyday Spanish Differs from Country to Country edited by Agustín Martínez. REFERENCE PC4640 .M26 1999

Routledge Spanish Dictionary of Business, Commerce, and Finance (Diccionarie Inglés de Negocios, Comercio y Finanzas) Spanish terminology (Terminología Espanõla) Emilio Go Muñiz Castro REFERENCE HF1002 .R687 1998

French

Routledge Frency Dictionary of Business, Commerce and Finance: French-English, English-French (Dictionaire Anglais des Affaires, du Commerce et de la Finance: Français-Anglais, Anglais-Français) REFERENCE HF1002 .R684 1996

OR to find more language dictionaries, search by keyword for dictionary and the language (for example "dictionary French" or "dictionary German" etc.)

Language Related Journals and E-journals

Alphabetic list of journals for the study of foreign literature & languages

Audio-Visual Materials

Colloquial French: A Complete Language Course   GENERAL COLLECTION PC2121 .M69 1996 (Cassettes)

Colloquial German: The Complete Course for Beginners   GENERAL COLLECTION PF3112 .H38 1998

Colloquial Spanish: A Complete Language Course   GENERAL COLLECTION PC4121 .A43 1995 (Cassettes)

Colloquial Spanish of Latin America    GENERAL COLLECTION PC4121 .R465 1995

more languages in the Colloquial Series

Online Databases

MLA International Bibliography

Academic Search Premier 

Academic OneFile

Websites

Scholarly Societies Project: Languages (Univeristy of Waterloo Library) (http://www.scholarly-societies.org/language_soc.html)

Poem Hunter: Poets worldwide (http://www.poemhunter.com/  )

Herman Hesse  ( http://www.hermann-hesse.de/eng/ )

Labyrinthe: French contemporary literature (materials, blog) ( http://perso.orange.fr/labyrinthe/ )

Los Poetas: organized by Spanish-speaking country ( http://www.los-poetas.com/ )