International Education Week at Clark College Libraries
Spanish Language Film Collection
Several years ago, Spanish Professor Felipe Montoya created a list of award-winning international films in Spanish and obtained a grant so the library could purchase these films for our collection. He also guided his students in translation of the film summaries from Spanish to English to make the films more discoverable in the library online catalog. These Spanish DVDs featuring award-winning artists from all over the world are all subtitled in English.
Spanish Novels for Language Learning
Last year, the library collaborated with Professor Betsy Ubiergo who helped us create a collection called Spanish Novels for Language Learning to help her support her students.
International Streaming Videos through AVON (Academic Videos Online)
Thanks to our library’s membership in the Orbis Cascade Alliance consortium, we recently added a new streaming video collection, AVON (Academic Videos Online), with over 71,000 videos. See titles there in Dutch, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Vietnamese, Russian, Mandarin, and many more languages. This database includes feature films such as House of Flying Daggers, Persepolis, Volver, Leviathan, Paprika, Fill the Void, and Wadjda.
Circulation Desk and Student Employees
Our student employees work on evaluating library services for equity, including strategies to support Russian-speaking patrons by translating materials and creating new signs. The circulation staff has also participated in social equity training specifically for library staff to recognize and to respond to xenophobia.
Cookbooks
A few years ago we collaborated with culinary faculty to update our tasty cookbooks and food-focused reads. Here’s a small selection of featuring flavors from around the world:
- Sake: Discover the Culinary Pleasures of Sake’s Long Relationship with Japanese Culture (2015) by Hideo Dekura
- Pure & Special: Gourmet Indian Vegetarian Cuisine (2014) by Vidhu Mittal and Sanjay Ramchandran
- East West: A Culinary Journey Through Malta, Lebanon, Iran, Turkey, Morocco, and Andalusia (2017) by Shane Delia
- The Iraqi Cookbook (2011) by Lamees Ibrahim
- The Indonesian Kitchen: Recipes and Stories (2009) by Sri Owen
See over 200 cookbooks published within the last 10 years from this search.
Databases
These databases focus on world cultures and international news:
