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• Use the side menu to locate media, print, and online resources for a specific language.

• For additional streaming video information: Streaming Video @ Your Library

• Department of Modern Languages and Literatures website: https://www.csueastbay.edu/mll/ 

• Explore Textbooks from KUs Open Language Resource Center: http://olrc.ku.edu/

The below resources and their descriptions were created by the Open Language Resource Center. "The Open Language Resource Center (OLRC) is one of sixteen federally-funded National Foreign Language Resource Centers working to increase the nation’s capacity to teach and learn foreign languages.  Founded in 2018, the OLRC focuses on the creation of Open Educational Resources for language learners at the secondary and post-secondary level." Learn more about the Center here: http://olrc.ku.edu/

OER Projects from the Open Language Resource Center

Library materials regarding language and literature can be found in the "P" section of the Library*. To learn more about the different call numbers (i.e. alpha numeric system to locate materials) and what these call numbers might represent with the "language and literature" section, explore the Library of Congress Classification Outline for Class P - Language and Literature.

*Please note that the LC classification system, like any classification system, and search engines or databases, are embedded with inherent bias (Read Safiya Umoja Noble's Algorithms of Oppression). In library and information systems, this is particular evident in the use of language in naming subject headings; in the invisible/visible hierarchies created within the disciplines and fields described; in the othering, omitting, and/or exclusion of people, languages, and cultures outside the white, western, and english-speaking...

To learn more, consider exploring the following sources:

• Adler, Melissa, & Harper, Lindsey M. (2018). Race and Ethnicity in Classification Systems: Teaching Knowledge Organization from a Social Justice Perspective. Library Trends, 67(1), 52-73.
• Honma, T. (2005). Trippin’ Over the Color Line: The Invisibility of Race in Library and Information Studies. InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies, 1(2).
• Howard, S.A., & Knowlton, S.A. (2018). Browsing through Bias: The Library of Congress Classification and Subject Headings for African American Studies and LGBTQIA Studies. Library Trends 67(1), 74-88.
• Olson, H. (1998). Mapping Beyond Dewey's Boundaries: Constructing Classificatory Space for Marginalized Knowledge Domains. Library Trends 47(2), 233-254.
• Thomas-Johnson, A. (2020, Oct. 8). Rewrite the English department: Lessons in radical decolonisation. Aljazeera.
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