A World-Wide Perspective on the
World Wide Web:
Exploring Foreign Language Materials on the Internet
Mariana Long and I developed this web page for the Maryland Day open
house at the College of Library and Information Services (CLIS) as an
additional source of information for participants to explore after the
lecture. The organization of the page follows the structure of the
core courses here at CLIS. The materials here provide just a small
glimpse into what we already know about how to cope with the torrent
of information that is now becoming available over the global network,
and we have included some examples of productive search strategies in
case you want to explore further.
In this paper, Michael Lesk argues that we will soon be able to
save all of the information that we produce, but that such an outcome
would only exacerbate the problem of finding what you are
looking for.
A Masters thesis from the University of Otago in New Zealand.
The most tolical material is contained in Chapter 10.
Information Access: Query Formulation
Print Resources
Chao, Sheau-yueh J. "The new Americans program: Queens Borough
Public Library's service to multilingual/multicultural communities,"
Public Libraries 32 (Nov./Dec. 1993): 319-22. LIBSCH
BNDPER Z731.P932.
Guerena, Salvador. Latino Librarianship: a handbook
for Professionals
Hoffert, Barbara. "Se lea espanol aqui! Spanish is read here -- and
ten librarians tell how to reach out and buy for a diverse population,"
Library Journal 117 (July 1992): 34-7. LIBSCH BNDPER Z671.LJ
Layman, Mary. "Reference Training in California Libraries -- back to
basics," Reference Librarian 30 (1990): 167-178. LIBSCH BNDPER
Z711.R43.
Liu, N.X. "Using the Internet to share information between China and
the West," Inspel 31(2) (1997): 103-9. LIBSCH BNDPER
Z675.A2158.
Search Strategies
Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA): keyword search
"reference work" and "Asian"
"reference work" and "Spanish"
Library Literature: subject search
"public libraries" and "services to Spanish Americans" and
English language
"public libraries" and "services to Asian Americans" and
English language
Information Structure: Indexing
Print Resources
Aman, Mohammed M. Analysis of terminology, form and
structure of subject headings in Arabic literature and formulation of
rules for Arabic subject headings. Pittsburgh: University of
Pittsburgh, 1968. LIBSCH STACKS Z695.A48.
Aman, Mohammed M. Cataloging and classification of
non-Western material: concerns, issues, and practices. Phoenix:
Oryx Press, 1980. LIBSCH STACKS Z695.1.A37C37.
Gosnell, Charles Francis. Spanish personal names;
principles governing their formation and use which may be presented as
a help for catalogers and bibliographers. Detroit:
Ethridge-Books, 1971. LIBSCH STACKS Z695.1.P4G6 1971.
Tseng, Sally C. LC romanization tables and cataloging
policies. Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1990. LIBSCH STACKS
Z695.1.F66L4 1990.
A news clipping service in which articles from around the world
are first translated into English and then included in an information
retrieval system. This is a fee-based service provided by the
U.S. National Technical Information Service, and online access
through this link is thus limited to users on the University of
Maryland network.
A broad-coverage search engine that includes language-specific
searching and translation between English and French, German,
Italian, Portugese and Spanish. You can use the same
translation engine (at http://babelfish.altavista.com)
to manually translate your query and then cut-and-paste it into
the AltaVista query window.
A bilingual system that searches a large collection of English
and French documents using either English or French queries. When the
query translation option is selected, the user is prompted to select
the desired translation from a list of available translations for
several technical domains.
An interactive search engine that illustrates a selection
interface that shows how thumbnail images can be used
to support selection without knowing the document's language.
A web search engine that finds web pages with Russian content
based on queries in English or Russian and then optionally translates
the retrieved documents into English.
