Spotlight On Spanish Language Resources At Your Fingertips
The State Library offers a variety of resources for Spanish-speakers. In addition to print books, the following statewide databases - subscription databases available to all Louisiana residents on the Louisiana Library Connection, http://lalibcon.state.lib.la.us/ -- have information and resources in Spanish, including:
• Gale Virtual Reference Library – Offers translation of articles from English to Spanish
• HomeworkLA – Live tutoring for grades 2- college, job help, and citizenship test studies for adults.
• Learning Express 3.0 – Resources for Spanish speakers include basic skills improvement and citizenshih test study.
• Pronunciator – Language learning for Spanish speakers with 80 languages to choose from, and practice of English as a Second Language (ESL).
• Salud en Español – Health information in Spanish
• TumbleBookLibrary – Spanish language and Spanish/English bilingual animated storybooks.
The language button in EBSCO will translate the interface into Spanish. In addition, several databases in the EBSCOhost interface offer articles in Spanish covering a variety of subject areas. Some of the ones we have identified are:
Academic Search Complete
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
Business Source Complete
Humanities International Complete
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Literary Reference Center
MEDLINE
SocINDEX with Full Text
SPORTDiscus
