French Studies

Using Library Facilities.

• All UVA libraries are open with access to their Library stacks, rooms, and other public spaces, including the new renovated Shannon Library --the central UVA library for Social Sciences and Humanities.
  Check: Library Hours and locations
• Group study rooms?: reserve a room

Important:

• Refreshing our memory about Ivy Stacks library.
  Ivy Stacks is a high-density shelving and retrieval facility located one mile west of Central Grounds. Materials are available for checkout through Virgo.

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Important Service at Shannon Library  for Graduate Students (posted Fall 2024)

Shelves are available for reservation at the Shannon Library Graduate Student Lounge!

Students who are interested should email Mary Ann Lugo, lugo@virginia.edu

• Current UVA graduate students in good standing are eligible to reserve one set of shelves for one academic year. The reservation can be renewed.
• Shelves are assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. Please be patient if you are not assigned shelves right away. You will be placed on a wait list.
• Only checked-out books and materials are allowed on the shelves. All library items on your shelves need to have a GSL Shelf slip in them, otherwise they will be removed.
• Personal items can be temporarily placed in the lounge if you are stepping away while you are actively using the space. The fridge and lockers in the kitchen area are there for this purpose. Personal belongings cannot be left overnight and will be removed if left behind.
• Grads who have study carrels or shelves at Fine Arts or Music cannot also reserve shelves at Shannon due to space limitations.

Using Library Services:

• If you need materials not owned by the UVA Library, please use Interlibrary Loan Services
• If you want to access any material placed in a class reserve list, please use Course Reserve Services
• If you are not on Campus and you need to use library resources, please use Off-Grounds Access
• If you want library ordering new material, please use Purchase Request Form
• LEO delivery to departments will once again be available for faculty, staff, and graduate students. This means you will be able to have books and other circulating material delivered directly to you via your mailboxes. To refresh yourself on the methodology, consult Library Express On-Grounds (LEO delivery Services)
• Instructional Scanning (ISS), which digitizes course related materials for inclusion in UVACollab sites as additional readings;
• If you need to scan any material for your research, please consult Scanning Services,
• School of Continuing and Professional Studies/Distance Education Delivery, a service which mails Library materials to SCPS and Distance Education students who live outside the Charlottesville/Albemarle County area;

1. Student Support for Remote Instruction.
   • VPN to access UVa Library resources, including Virgo and databases, as if you were on-grounds. UVa offers four types of VPNs for accessing UVa resources: UVaAnywhere, UVa More Secure Network, Joint VPN and High Security VPN
   • How to Use Zoom .

Miguel Angel Valladares Llata Room 419A, Shannon Library. PO Box 400113 160 McCormick. Charlottesville, VA 22904 mav4n@virginia.edu Cell: 434-4222608   The most immediate way to contact me is through email. mav4n@virginia.edu. I can meet you either by zoom or in person.

Statement of intents
You must be aware that consulting with a subject librarian is not only obtaining quality resources from an expert in any given subject, but also that you are knocking on the door of a local, national, and international group of professionals experts in multiple aspects of your possible projects. I mean that I am part of various international organizations: SALALM, LANE and LASER, (Latin America); CIFNAL (French and Francophone world); CRL (General Research) to which I have access and from which I obtain all the necessary support.

I am available to all students who are researching any Latin American, Iberian, Italian, Lusophone, Francophone, and French topics. Also, I have a lot of experience working with Global Issues from a Social Sciences and Humanities perspective and I can support research in German and Jewish Studies. If you are an undergraduate student that need to do a large or brief research project, or a graduate student preparing a bibliography for your PhD. or master’s degree, gathering ideas about a topic, finding an archive in a different country, etc., meeting with a subject librarian early in your research process is key saving you time and to improve the content of your research.

I am also very interested in hearing your opinion on how to improve our library. Let me know If you discover new material that may be useful for your research or have an opinion on how to improve our services and resources when you work on subject related to my expertise or elsewhere.

Subject Specialties

French
German
Jewish Studies
Latin American Studies
LatinX
Spanish
Italian
Portuguese

QUALITY OF RESEARCH

• Evaluating Resources (UC-Berkeley)
• Evaluating Websites (kathleenamorris.com)
• Avoid Fake News (Rebecca Coleman)
• The Literature Review (U Toronto)
• What is Plagiarism (Plagiarism.org)