This document provides an overview of a Spanish 274 class on the topic of "Captives, Clerics, and Corsairs". It discusses how to handle rare books and provides an overview of peer-reviewed scholarly articles. It also introduces the class libguide and an MLA database activity. It discusses the difference between peer-reviewed and other types of journals and provides examples of databases to search, including Academic Search Complete, MLA International Bibliography, and Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America. It also introduces the citation management tool Zotero.

1. Spanish 274: Captives, Clerics, and
Corsairs
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2. 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

4. 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?

5. 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!
Courtly love Treatment of violence
Spanish
Literature
Spanish influence
Cervantes
Golden Age
Captivity narratives

6. 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)

7. 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.

8. 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!***

9. 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.

10. Questions? Help?
• I’m available for one-on-one consultations.
• Don’t be shy, I really do want to help you 