Library Research Guides: ITALIAN: Find Books & Videos

Borrowing from Elsewhere

Can't find what you're looking for at Wellesley?

Use WorldCat Discovery to search and request directly from libraries worldwide via Interlibrary Loan.

ILL During the Renovation

InterLibrary Loan (ILL) services will continue to be available for print books, ebooks, chapters, and articles. If you only need a chapter or two from a book, place a book chapter request and we'll try to get them electronically. Requesting an item through ILL will be more efficient than recalling an item from storage; however, if we are unable to locate an item through ILL, we will pursue other means.

Where do I pick up & return my ILL requests during the renovation?

Pickups: Modulars, Room 103

Returns: Modulars, Room 103, Blue Library Book Drop outside the Modulars or the Art or Music Libraries

Service Desk Hours

How do I Make Requests?

For Loan requests, search the Library Catalog, WorldCat, or SuperSearch and look for one of the following links to place your ILL request. If we already own an item, but it is in off-site storage or checked out, you can still select “Request from another library (InterLibrary Loan)”.

Renovation Website

https://blogs.wellesley.edu/clapplibraryrenovation/faq/

Search the Library Catalog

Catalog Search Tips

Try a keyword search. Once you find a book that is relevant to your topic, use the subject headings of that book to help you find "more like this".

Keyword search:

gender AND italian cinema

Subject headings:

Not finding enough, or an item checked out? Try borrowing from elsewhere.

SuperSearch

You can also find books using SuperSearch. Choose the source types Books & eBooks using the filtering options on your search results screen.

Finding Videos in Italian

Finding Italian-language Videos
A guide to finding DVDs and streaming videos in Italian

Kanopy This link opens in a new window
A streaming video collection, including feature films and documentaries from PBS, BBC, Criterion, and more.
Please see this list of films Wellesley is currently licensing from Kanopy for title information.
Wellesley College students are also able to use Kanopy via the Wellesley Free Library in town. Students automatically have library cards there and are able to download six films a month. To activate your account, follow these instructions:
1. Call the Wellesley Free Library at 781-235-1610 ext. 1104 during their open hours.
2. Verify your name, Wellesley College mailing address, and college e-mail.
3. They will provide you with your card number and PIN.
4. Download and install the app, available for phones and tablets (you can also watch on a computer at wellesleylib.kanopy.com).
5. Input your card number and PIN.
Wellesley College staff and faculty also are able to use Kanopy via the Wellesley Free Library. If you are not already a patron there, you can get a temporary card online at wellesleyfreelibrary.org/library-card-application.
Docuseek2 This link opens in a new window
Streaming over 1800 documentary films across a broad range of disciplines. Use the Advanced Search to find films by language.
Opera in Video This link opens in a new window
Online video of operas in performance, also documentaries and interviews. Create your own playlists and video clips. Includes operas in Italian.

New Books for Italian Studies

Italy and the Environmental Humanities: Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies by Serenella Iovino et al. (Editors)
Publication Date: 2018
This is the first book to examine Italy--as a territory of both matter and imagination--through the lens of the environmental humanities. The contributors offer a wide spectrum of approaches--including ecocriticism, film studies, environmental history and sociology, eco-art, and animal and landscape studies--to move past cliché and reimagine Italy as a hybrid, plural, eloquent place.
Ordinary violence in Mussolini's Italy by Michael R. Ebner
Call Number: Clapp Library DG571 .E315 2011
Between 1926 and 1943, the Fascist regime arrested thousands of Italians and deported them to island internment colonies and small villages in southern Italy. Ebner analyzes this system of political confinement and, more broadly, its effects on Italian society, revealing the centrality of political violence to Fascist rule.
Italy and the European Union by Federiga Bindi
Call Number: Clapp Library HC240.25.I8 B56 2011
Federiga Bindi provides, for the first time, an in-depth analysis of Italy's role within the European Union (EU). Bindi relates in detail the historical, cultural, and sociological factors that have led to Italy's incomplete "Europeanization," or full integration, within the EU.