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April 18, 2010 The Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry database contains the full text of over 250,000 poems in English and several other languages. This database offers complete coverage of several great poets, including Shelley, Keats, Poe, and Baudelaire. It also includes current poetry from some of the best poetry journals such as Poetry Magazine and The Southern Review. Search or browse poems by subject and try the advanced search features if you can only remember a line of the poem you’re looking for. Once you’ve found a poem, you are one click away from poetry on similar subjects or by the same poet. |
April 25, 2010 The Health Reference Center provides easy access to a variety of reputable nursing, allied health and medical journals, consumer health magazines, reference books, news and other health information sources. This tool is great for researchers, nursing students or consumers, and it covers a range of information from 1980 to the present in a single database. You can browse topics, then refine the results by date or format, including full-text articles, images and videos. All of the publications can also be browsed by title. There are a host of advanced search features, including the option to look for particular types of publications such as calendars, clinical reports, even broadcast transcripts. |
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May 2, 2010 “The New Handbook of Texas is a multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture. It comprises more than 23,000 articles on people, places, events, historical themes, institutions, and a host of other topic categories. The scope is broad and inclusive, designed to provide readers with concise, authoritative, and accessible articles that provide factual, nonpartisan accounts on virtually every aspect of Texas history and culture.” The above quote is from the Handbook of Texas website. You can search or browse subjects to find Texas dignitaries, public figures, folklore, geography, museums, industries, and much, much more. Here you’ll also find the Texas State Historical Association’s News & Events. |
May 9, 2010 HeritageQuest Online is an excellent resource for genealogists comprising primary and secondary sources. Researchers can access images of the complete U.S. Federal Census from 1790-1930 and search the full text of over 28,000 books on family and local histories in the U.S. The PERSI database indexes millions of articles related to genealogy and local history. The HeritageQuest suite also lets users search or browse records relating to the Revolutionary War, the Freedman’s Bank, which was founded to serve African Americans, and the U.S. Serial Set. The friendly interface enables exploration by name, place, keyword and publication. |
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May 16, 2010 Academic Search Premier connects you with the full-text of over 4,600 magazines, academic journals and trade publications. Whether you are interested in back issues of Rolling Stone magazine or data from the Journal of Sulfur Chemistry, this database puts an enormous amount of information at your fingertips with abstracts and indexed records for more than 8,500 journals. Inquiries can specify date, type or name of publication as well as language and image type. Browsing by journal title or an extensive list of subject terms is also enabled. An excellent starting point for almost any type of research, Academic Search Premier is one of the library’s most wide-ranging electronic resources. |
May 23, 2010 InfoTrac is a great source for up-to-date news, with articles from hundreds of domestic and international newspapers, some dating back to the 1980s. Updated daily, newspapers are available in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Searches can be limited to articles with full-text or images, and searches can be confined to certain parts of the paper, such as the obituaries or editorials. Individual papers can be browsed by title, language or country of publication. InfoTrac is customizable—you can create an account and set up email alerts or RSS feeds for news items that interest you. |
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May 30, 2010
Legal forms are conveniently accessible with the Gale Legal Forms database. It “provides a wide selection of state-specific and multi-state legal forms across the most popular legal areas” including real estate contracts, wills, prenuptial agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and small businesses. Also included are attorney directories by state and a dictionary of legal definitions. The most popular categories are listed then broken down into more specific subjects, such as Power of Attorney--General--Texas. Search results include blank forms that can be downloaded, filled out on a computer and printed or examples of actual legal documents. The site also includes links to state and federal tax forms.
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June 5 The Auto Repair Reference Center database contains information on over 34,000 domestic and imported vehicles from most major manufacturers. Repair information for many vintage models is available as far back as 1945. Vehicle information is enhanced with technical drawings, photographs, wiring diagrams, and specifications and maintenance schedules. Bulletins and recalls from the original manufacturers are also included. All content is created by ASE certified technicians. Information is easy to find starting with vehicle year, then narrowing down the make, model and submodel. The database includes a troubleshooting tool, Auto IQ quizzes and a section on basic care, repair and buying tips. |
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June 12 Texas Sanborn maps are now available online for library patrons with an active library card. “Sanborn maps are valuable historical tools for urban specialists, social historians, architects, geographers, genealogists, local historians, planners, environmentalists and anyone who wants to learn about the history, growth, and development of American cities, towns, and neighborhoods. They are large-scale plans containing data that can be used to estimate the potential risk for urban structures. This includes information such as the outline of each building, the size, shape and construction materials, heights, and function of structures, location of windows and doors. The maps also give street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers.” The digital Sanborn maps have an intuitive interface and print capabilities. |
June 19 The online version of the familiar World Book encyclopedia offers enhanced access to its traditional content. World Book online is split into four sections: World Book Web, Specialty Sites, World Book Digital Libraries, and World Book Classroom. World Book Web links to information for students at different levels such as World Book Advanced, which “is a powerful reference tool that includes encyclopedic, multimedia, e-book, and primary source databases, fully integrated in a single search.” All of the World Book Web sites have a section for teachers as well. The Specialty Sites section links to World Book Discover for “differentiated instruction” and several Spanish language encyclopedias. World Book Digital Libraries is a passport to the interactive counterpart for the World Book’s newest reference sets, Living Green, Early Peoples, and Inventions and Discoveries. World Book Classroom sites are “designed specifically to support core curriculum in the classroom.” World Book Online |
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June 26 “Internet & Personal Computing Abstracts provides abstracts and indexing for literature related to personal computing products and developments in business, the Internet, the home, and all other applied areas.” Coverage dates back to the 1980s from over 400 of the biggest names in trade, popular and professional journals such as PC World, MacWorld and Linux Journal. The abstracts can point you to a particular resource, the full-text of which can be found in one of our databases or in print at our library or through interlibrary loan. |
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