From now until the 28th of April, the library is trialling The Great Corpus of dictionaries. The Corpus gathers the 24 most important dictionaries on French language, in total about 200 000 pages (2 500 signs per page), 900 000 entries and definitions. It is the greatest collection today available on the subject.

To try this resource, go to the library’s database trial page and click on the link for the Grand Corpus des dictionnaires.

RefWorks 2.0—RefWorks’ new interface—is now the default for Queen’s users! The new, easy-to-navigate interface will make managing and sharing your research even easier. Your favourite features, including Write-N-Cite, are still available. In fact, additions such as the “My List” folder option and the ability to create subfolders enhance already-popular features like RefShare and Create Bibliography.

The traditional interface—RefWorks Classic—will be available until the end of December, 2011. Until then, you may return to Classic by clicking the “Login using RefWorks Classic” link on the RefWorks login center page. Alternately, once you have logged in to RefWorks 2.0, you can click on the “RefWorks Classic” link at the top right of the page to set your default to RefWorks Classic. You will be able to switch between Classic and 2.0 until RefWorks Classic is completely phased out.

For more detailed information, please see the RefWorks 2.0^BETA Quick Start Guide, the RefWorks 2.0 demo, or the RefWorks 2.0 FAQs. For more information about RefWorks in general, or to sign up for an account, please go to http://library.queensu.ca/help/refworks.

Please do not hesitate to contact Jennifer Szwec, Academic Public Services Intern at Bracken Health Sciences Library, with any questions you may have about RefWorks Classic or 2.0: bracken.library@queensu.ca.

The following are new titles (last 3 months) in Stauffer Library.  These titles are in the PN call number range (Literary Theory) and are about French, German, Spanish or Italian Literature.

Lecture, rêve, hypertexte : liber amicorum Christian Vandendorpe / sous la direction de Rainier Grutman et Christian Milat.
Ottawa, Ont. : Éditions David, [2009]
Stauffer Library – Books
PN36.V36 L43 2009

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The following is a list of new French-Language Literature titles (PQ1-PQ3999) at Stauffer (these titles were added to the catalogue in the last month).

Voici la liste des titres les plus récents de la littérature (langue française-  PQ1- PQ3999) à la bibliothèque Stauffer.

*Please note: some titles were given to the library as gifts*

Jeux de masques, jeux de ruses dans la littérature francaise médiévale (XIIe-XVe siècles) / Gabriela Tanase.
Tanase, Gabriela.
Paris : Honoré Champion ; Genève : Slatkine [distr. outside of France], 2010.
Stauffer Library – Books
PQ151 .T36 2010

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The following is a list of new Spanish & Latin American Literature books (added to the catalogue in the last month) at Stauffer Library:

• The titles have call numbers starting with PC (language) or  PQ6 (Spain), PQ7 & PQ8 (Latin America), or PQ9 (Portugal) and they are located on the 4th floor of Stauffer Library
• All of these titles have arrived in the last month
• Please note that some of the titles were given to the library as gifts

Posibilidad de Miia Hakala / Alberto Torres Blandina.
Torres Blandina, Alberto, 1976-
Guatemala, Guatemala : F & G Editores, c2010.
Stauffer Library – Books
PQ6720.O7755 P67 2010

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The following are new titles at Stauffer for German:

• The books titles have call numbers starting with PT or PF – located on the 4th floor of Stauffer Library or in the Reference Collection on the main floor of Stauffer Library.
• The multimedia titles are also located on the main floor of Stauffer Library, behind the Reference Collection.
• All of these titles have arrived in the last month.
• Please note that some of the titles were given to the library as gifts

Language and social change in Central Europe : discourses on policy, identity and the German language.
Stevenson, Patrick.
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2010.
Stauffer Library – Books
PF3087 .S74 2010

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The following is a list of new Italian books in the Stauffer Collection

• The list was created based on call number PQ4 – PQ4999
• The list includes books added to the collection in the last four month.

Storia della letteratura italiana / Giulio Ferroni.
Ferroni, Giulio, 1943-
Milano : Einaudi Scuola, 1991.
Stauffer Library – Books
PQ4037 .F37 1991

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The following is a list of new French-Canadian Literature titles at Stauffer (these books were added to the catalogue in the last month).

• The titles have call numbers starting withPS9 located on the 4th floor of Stauffer Library
• All of these titles have arrived in the last month
• Please note that some of the titles were given to the library as gifts

Nos grands-pères ne nous parlaient pas / Réal-Gabriel Bujold.

Bujold, Réal-Gabriel, 1949-

Rosemère : HUMANITAS, 2009.

Stauffer Library – Books

PS9553.U657 A3 2009

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The following is a list of new Linguistics books (4th floor) and multimedia (by the Reference collection) at Stauffer Library(these books were added in the last month).

*Please note that some items are gifts to the library*

Language, thought and reference / George Powell.

Powell, George, 1967-

Basingsoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Stauffer Library – Books

P39 .L367 2010

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October 7, 2010:

The 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature award winner is Peru’s Mario Vargas Llosa.

Queen’s Library has many books by and about Vargas Llosa.  Simply search for Vargas Llosa in Summon or QCAT.

To read more about this announcement, go to:  “The Nobel Prize in Literature 2010″. Nobelprize.org. 7 Oct 2010 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2010/