Macdonald-Kelce Library: Languages: Best Bets

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Use Spartan Search to search the library's collection of foreign language media and books.

Please note that streaming media content is not indexed in Spartan Search and users should search those interfaces directly to find and access audio-video files.

JSTOR
Scholarly journals, ebooks, primary sources, and ebooks in the arts, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and business.
Project MUSE
Full-text scholarly journals and ebooks covering the humanities and social sciences broadly, and more specifically topical areas such as ...
literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.

Books and journals from non-profit scholarly publishers, including university presses and societies. Offers Online Teaching & Learning Resources, Teaching & Content Alerts, content for Courses & Research. Also contains The Complete Prose of T.S. Eliot: The Critical Edition gathers for the first time in one place the collected, uncollected, and unpublished prose. The fully searchable, integrative edition includes all of Eliot's collected essays, reviews, lectures, commentaries from The Criterion, and letters to editors, including more than 700 uncollected and 150 unpublished pieces from 1905 to 1965 and much more.
World Folklore and Folklife
This source describes the rich tradition of holidays, festivals, language, stories and fairy tales, proverbs, foodways, and folk remedies that define our society.
Access World News Spanish language papers
Spanish-language newspapers; also known as Acceda Noticias

Spartan Search

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Search across the entire library catalog (books, DVDs, government documents)
and most of the library databases (journal articles, images, newspapers).

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Google Scholar
A great place to start research that includes many UTampa databases. (PDF Handout Notes)

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Call Numbers for Foreign Languages

The University of Tampa's Macdonald-Kelce Library has a wide selection of foreign language materials. Below are the relevant Library of Congress classification areas to explore. All items in the library (other than Government Documents) are assigned a Library of Congress call number and are arranged on the shelves accordingly.

HV2474-2476	American Sign Language
PC1001-1977	Italian language
PC2001-3761	French language
PC4001-4977	Spanish language
PF3001-5999	German language
PJ6001-8517	Arabic language and literature
PL501-889	Japanese language and literature
PL1001-3208	Chinese language and literature
PQ1-3999	French literature
PQ4001-5999	Italian literature
PQ6001-8929	Spanish literature
PT1-4897	German literature