DOP - dizionario italiano d'ortografia et di pronuncia - ONLINE

DOP: dizionario italiano multimediale e multilingue d'ortografia e di pronunzia. Roma: Rai-ERI, 2010.

When deciding whether to get the new print edition of DOP , I looked it up online and found that the new "multimediale e multilingue" edition has a great suite of online tools. Now, instead of just reading about how to pronounce a word, you can actually hear it!

In addition to detailed phonetic spelling to individual words, you can click on the accompanying little red arrows to listen to the preferred pronunciation. There is also an anthology of 53 selected texts from the 13th-20th centuries that you can listen to while looking at the text. This would be a great teaching tool, in addition to its research value. While I'll still get the newest version for the IC Reference collection, I think that it is well worth knowing about this online resource.
http://www.dizionario.rai.it/index.aspx?treeID=1

Of interest to grad students - preparation for teaching in the humanities

Winter 2011: CTL  224 - 01   Fundamentals of College Teaching in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences

 

For teaching assistants in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Topics include current research on learning and teaching, practice teaching sessions, leading discussions, designing assignments and group activities, grading and feedback practices, and teaching with technology. 1-3 units

Taught by Dr. Mariatte Denman

Fridays, 12:15-2:05pm, Sweet Hall 403

Support for foreign language learning

Russell Berman, professor of Comparative Literature and German at Stanford, has a thoughtful essay in this morning's "Inside Higher Ed" defending the teaching of foreign languages in American universities - with comments by some familiar characters...
Foreign Language for Foreign Policy?

SearchWorks updates

I imagine that many of you are now using SearchWorks, Stanford's new library catalog, rather than Socrates, and encourage those not to try it out. The SearchWorks team is continuously improving and adding new search and display features to the catalog. Here are the latest updates:

Search by Call Number

The most prominent among these is the addition of a "Search by Call Number" option to the main search box. While SearchWorks has supported searching by some call numbers for a while as an undocumented feature, it now supports more accurate searching for more types of call numbers. We've also made this more apparent in the application by adding it as a distinct option to the pull down list, giving users the choice to search everything, or by authors, titles, subject terms, or call numbers. We will continue to work on enhancing call number searching over time.

So for now, to search by a call number:

1. Enter the call number in the search box (no quotes required)
2. Click the arrow next to Search, and select "Call Number"

 Requests for On-Order Items

On order items are now requestable via SearchWorks, using the new request forms application. (Previously these items would display, but without a request link.) Items that are not requestable (because they are missing, for example) will now receive a helpful "No Item to Request" page, rather than error. 

Subject Links Now More Precise

Subject links and subject searches previously permitted terms to be found across multiple subject headings, giving larger (and less accurate) result sets. For example, clicking on this subject link: 

• Vocal music > Thematic catalogs.

would also find records with these separate headings:

• Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809 > Thematic catalogs.
• Vocal music.

Now subject links (and a quoted subject phrase searches) will find the terms in order within in the same heading.

New Acquisitions, October 2010

A selected list of recent additions to Stanford's French and Italian collections...

French

AIEMF (Organization), Maria Colombo Timelli, Barbara Ferrari, Anne Schoysman Zambrini, and Irene Finotti. Mettre en prose au XIVe-XVIe siècles. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010.

Amrani, Mehana. Le 8 mai 1945 en Algérie: les discours français sur les massacres de Sétif, Kherrata et Guelma. Paris: Harmattan, 2010.

Aquilon, Pierre, and Thierry Claerr. Le berceau du livre imprimé, autour des incunables: actes des "Rencontres Marie Pellechet", 22-24 septembre 1997 et des Journées d'étude des 29 et 30 septembre 2005. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010.

Bard, Christine. Une histoire politique du pantalon. Paris: Seuil, 2010.

Beaurepaire, Pierre-Yves, Silvia Marzagalli, and Guillaume Balavoine. Atlas de la révolution française: circulation des hommes et des idées, 1770-1804. Paris: Autrement, 2010.

Blanchot, Maurice, and Zakir Paul. Political writings, 1953-1993. New York: Fordham University Press, 2010.

Bonnefoy, Yves. L'inachevable: entretiens sur la poésie, 1990-2010. [Paris]: A. Michel, 2010.

Bouguerra, Mohamed Ridha, and Sabiha Bouguerra. Histoire de la littérature du Maghreb: littérature francophone. Paris: Ellipses, 2010.

Campa, Laurence. Poètes de la grande guerre: expérience combattante et activité poétique. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2010.

Dosse, François. Renaissance de l'événement: un défi pour l'historien : entre sphinx et phénix. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2010.

Etoke, Nathalie. L'écriture du corps féminin dans la littérature de l'Afrique francophone au sud du Sahara. Paris: Harmattan, 2010.

Grandsart, Didier. Paris 1931: revoir l'exposition coloniale. Paris: FVW, 2010.

Hannoum, Abdelmajid. Violent Modernity: France in Algeria. Cambridge, Mass: Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University Press, 2010.

Houellebecq, Michel. La Carte Et Le Territoire. Flammarion, 2010.

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Oeuvres. Paris: Gallimard, 2010.

Minc, Alain. Une histoire politique des intellectuels: essai. Paris: Grasset, 2010.

Italian

Bochicchio, Gisella, and Rosanna De Longis. La stampa periodica femminile in Italia: repertorio 1861-2009. Roma: Biblink, 2010.

Carnero, Roberto. Under 40: i giovani nella nuova narrativa italiana. [Milano]: B. Mondadori, 2010.

Collura, Matteo. Il gioco delle parti: vita straordinaria di Luigi Pirandello. Milano: Longanesi, 2010.

Convegno di studio su Rivolte e rivoluzione nel Mezzogiorno d'Italia, 1547-1799, Antonio Lerra, and Aurelio Musi. Rivolte e rivoluzione nel Mezzogiorno d'Italia: 1547-1799. Manduria: P. Lacaita, 2008.

Faccioli, Alessandro. Schermi di regime: cinema italiano degli anni Trenta : la produzione e i generi. Venezia: Marsilio, 2010.

Guaragnella, Pasquale, Rossella Abbaticchio, and Gianluigi De Marinis Gallo. L'incipit e la tradizione letteraria italiana. Lecce: Pensa multimedia, 2010.

Hildesheimer, Françoise. Monsieur Descartes ou la fable de la raison. Paris: Flammarion, 2010.

RICABIM: repertorio di inventari e cataloghi di biblioteche medievali dal secolo VI al 1520 = repertory of inventories and catalogues of medieval libraries from the VIth century to 1520. Firenze: SISMEL edizioni del Galluzzo, 2009.

Verri, Pietro. Storia di Milano / Pietro Verri, a cura di Renato Pasta. Roma: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2009.