The popular Literature Resource Center (LRC) has a new interface optimized for mobile devices. LRC offers up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. Content is drawn from several dozen well known reference series, including: Contemporary Authors Dictionary…Continue Reading Updates to Literature Resource Center and Book Review Index
Category: Resources
New ProQuest Resources Available Statewide
As part of the Traveler Program, The Arkansas State Library has added a number of new ProQuest resources that can be accessed from any library in Arkansas. The Arkansas State Library Traveler Project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Some of the new Traveler databases include: ProQuest Central…Continue Reading New ProQuest Resources Available Statewide
New Resources Shed Fresh Light on the “Dark Ages”
The Libraries have added several resources for Medieval Studies in the last year. These include: Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages & Renaissance Based at the University of Toronto, Iter is a not-for-profit partnership dedicated to the advancement of learning in the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Iter is a…Continue Reading New Resources Shed Fresh Light on the “Dark Ages”
Oxford Bibliographies Online: Recommended Reading on Scholarly Topics
The Libraries have recently added four titles from Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO). Combining the best features of an annotated bibliography and a scholarly encyclopedia, Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) are designed to guide researchers to the best available scholarship across a wide variety of subjects. These authoritative research guides provide a starting point for your research…Continue Reading Oxford Bibliographies Online: Recommended Reading on Scholarly Topics
Birds in the Hand, and on the Laptop: Birds of North America Online
Birds of North America (BNA) Online provides scientific information for each of the 716 species of birds nesting in the USA and Canada, with image and video galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and nestlings, recordings of bird’s songs and calls selected from the collection in Cornell’s Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds. Species accounts include…Continue Reading Birds in the Hand, and on the Laptop: Birds of North America Online
April is Jazz Month: Celebrate with Naxos Music Library: Jazz
Celebrate America’s gift to the world this month with our new database, Naxos Music Library: Jazz. Many of you may already know Naxos Music Library for its rich collection of thousands of classical recordings. This new Jazz collection is its hep-cat younger sibling. Naxos Music Library: Jazz offers more than 32,000 artists on more than…Continue Reading April is Jazz Month: Celebrate with Naxos Music Library: Jazz