No Comprende Spanish Health Information Resources for English Speaking Librarians

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No Comprende? Spanish Health Information
Resources for English Speaking Librarians
Funded by the National Library of Medicine,
National Institutes of Health, under Contract No.
NO1-LM-1-3514.
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No Comprende? Spanish Health Information
Resources for English Speaking Librarians

• Participants will be able to...
• identify online resources for basic English
  medical terminology
• identify online Spanish vocabulary resources for
• basic library terms
• basic Internet terms
• and basic medical terms

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Basic English Health Resources

• MedlinePlus http//www.medlineplus.gov/
• Has extensive information from the National
  Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on
  over 700 diseases and conditions
• Encyclopedia
• Dictionary

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Basic English Health Resources

• Genetics Home Reference http//ghr.nlm.nih.gov/
• National Library of Medicine's web site for
  consumer information about genetic conditions and
  the genes or chromosomes responsible for those
  conditions.
• Help Me Understand Genetics Handbook

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Basic Spanish Vocabulary
 
 
Spanish Flashcards http//members.tripod.com/spa
nishflashcards/ Excellent website for learning
basic Spanish vocabulary Main website is not
too pretty or well designed, but the
vocabulary pages are very good Vocabulary sets
use Flash to feature authentic audio and
photos when you move your mouse over the Spanish
words Some of the topics are the alphabet,
animals, clothing, and more
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Basic Spanish Vocabulary
 
 

• Flashcard Exchange
• http//www.flashcardexchange.com/
• http//www.flashcardexchange.com/directory/1637.ht
  ml
• A free services that has over 749,000 flashcards
  from 26 languages with 14 different main
  categories of words including science and
  medicine
• Flashcards are created by the Internet community
  you can add your own flashcards and share them
  with others
• Features are interactive and extensive
• Study flashcards in a variety of orders
• Spell check with dictionaries in multiple
  languages
• Download and Import your flashcards with MS Excel
  or text
• Download your flashcards to your Palm Pilot or
  Pocket PC (paid feature)

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Basic Spanish VocabularySymbols
 
 

• In general, Spanish symbols such as
• accents búsqueda
• upside-down question marks
• and enyes niño
• can be found in Symbols under the Insert menu.
• If you like keyboard commands, often the Control
  key works
• Accent Ctrl vowel
• Upside-down question mark CtrlShiftAlt?
• Enye Ctrl Shift n

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Spanish Library Vocabulary
 
 

• Spanish in Our Libraries
• http//www.sol-plus.net/plus/home.htm
• Ever want to know how to say I will get someone
  who speaks Spanish or Do you have a library
  card?
• SOL-Plus has a wealth of library vocabulary in
  Spanish
• Site even features
• Dewey in Spanish
• Library of Congress system in Spanish
• Bookmarks
• Signage
• And loads of other goodies!

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Spanish Library Vocabulary
 
 

• REFORMAs Library Resources
• http//www.reforma.org/libresources.html
• REFORMA is the National Association to Promote
  Library and Information Services to Latinos and
  the Spanish-Speaking
• In addition to the other resources that REFORMA
  provides such as the listserv, networking
  opportunities, and scholarships, the Library
  Resources page has a wealth of vocabulary for
  libraries and the web
• Note the Spanish for Librarians link is a large
  PDF document.

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Library Services to Spanish Speakers

• Web Junction
• Web Junctions Services to Spanish Speakers
• http//webjunction.org/do/NavigationjsessionidC6
  FAA93786304ABC94FD97C708D71C6B?category7840
• Resources for working with Spanish-speaking
  library patrons
• Web Junction Spanish Language Outreach Program
• http//webjunction.org/do/Navigation?category1055
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• equips local library staff with knowledge and
  resources to meet the technology needs of their
  community's Spanish speakers

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Spanish Internet Vocabulary
 
 
Important /Common Spanish Internet Words La
búsquedasearch, generally a box next to this
word Los enlaceslink as in hyperlink
Actualizadoupdated La páginapage La Redthe
Net or Web El InternetInternet El base de
datosdatabase
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Spanish Internet Vocabulary
 
 

• Glossary of Spanish Internet Terms
• http//www.hrw.com/world/passport/pdfs/spterms.pdf
  
• This commercial website has an excellent list of
  the basic Internet terms that you will come
  across on a daily basis.
• Learn Spanish Internet Terms in Spanish and
  English
• http//www.lingolex.com/internet.htm
• Not beautiful, but simple, once you scroll down
  on this site, there is a more extensive list of
  Internet and computer terms in Spanish.

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Computer tools in Spanish

• Mousing Around Tutorial
• http//www.pbclibrary.org/raton/
• (in English http//www.pbclibrary.org/mousing/)
• WebJunction Materials for Working with Computers
  and Spanish Speakers
• http//webjunction.org/do/Navigation?category7843
  
• New User Online Tutorial in Spanishhttp//tech.tl
  n.lib.mi.us/tutor/spanish/welcome.htm
• (in English http//tech.tln.lib.mi.us/tutor/we
  lcome.htm)

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Spanish Medical Vocabulary
 
 

• Polyglot Multimedia Medical Spanish Translator
• http//topsailtech.com/polyglot/polyglot.html
• Interactive, side-by-side vocabulary and phrase
  listing with audio
• English-Spanish Dictionary of Health Related
  Terms
• http//www.ucop.edu/cprc/dictionary.pdf
• Contains terms organized in alphabetical order,
  including culture specific expressions associated
  with diseases, vocabulary used in Mexican
  traditional medicine, and folk terms utilized
  among migrants/ immigrants to describe illnesses
  and symptoms.

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