The LinguaLinks Library is an electronic productivity support system. Its integrated computer resources are designed to support language fieldwork. The Library takes advantage of the multimedia capabilities of your computer to provide information, instructions, training, and advice in a “Show-and-tell” mode.
The new LinguaLinks Library contains a significant collection of reference material. The material is organized into “bookshelves” according to domains:

•Anthropology
•Language Learning
•Linguistics
•Literacy
•Sociolinguistics
•Consulting
•Translation

LinguaLinks Library contains the entire contents of 149 books or book-length works and 223 SIL journal issues. Other general reference books include:

•Where There is No Doctor
•Where There is No Dentist
•The Wycliffe International Cookbook
•Wild Boar on the Kitchen Floor
•Solar Electricity for the Village Home

Available for MS Window 98 or newer

The Language Llearning Bookshelf is designed to help you learn to communicate in a second language. The multimedia section includes:
•Multimedia phonetics practice
•Language learning troubleshooter
•Multimedia overview of the bookshelf
• Help in discovering your learning style
The book and articles section has over 20 works including:
•Designing a Language and Culture Learning Program
•Language Learner's Field Guide
•Strategies and Helps for Language Learning
•ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines
•Success with Foreign Languages: Seven Who Achieved It and What Worked for Them
Other items included are:
•African Friends and Money Matters
•The Best of Ethno-Info
•Bible Translation Strategy
•The Acoustic Speech Analysis Program
•Ethnologue, 13th Edition
A must for anyone learning a language!

The two volumes on this CD-ROM contain almost 600 pages of relevant insights and practical suggestions for those who work with pre-field and on-field language and culture learners. Representing the views of a broad spectrum of specialists in the field, each of the papers has a single overarching goal—to help learners develop the proficiency they need in order to communicate more effectively in their new languages and cultures.

Volume I: Helping the Missionary Language Learner Succeed

Available only on this CD-ROM, the 21 papers in this volume were first presented at the International Congress on Language Learning which met in August, 1993, in Colorado Springs. Topics include principles that promote successful language learning, design of on-field language and culture-learning programs, approaches for fostering strong motivation and commitment, psychological issues facing new learners, and several papers on pre-field and on-field learner training.

Volume II: Helping Learners Develop Second Language Proficiency

This second volume of Congress papers, also available as a softcover book, consists of 20 papers from the second Congress (October, 1995) and the third Congress (October, 1998), each meeting in Colorado Springs. It offers practical help in dealing with issues such as expanding the role of the language learning facilitator, gleaning insights from research to improve field-based learning, fostering appropriate learner attitudes, helping learners make the most of their individual learning styles and preferences, equipping learners with a repertoire of communicative activities, and assessing the learners’ ability to use the language in real-life situations.