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Gale Cengage Learning www.gale.cengage.com/mygovernment; for a free trial between Feb. 15 and Mar. 15, 2012, go to www.mygovernment.us/login.asp. Password: ljpromo CONTENT MyGovernment provides one-stop shopping for information about elected and appointed officials at all levels of government. Users can search and browse the database from three basic tabs: “Who,” “What,” and “Where.” Using the “Who” [...]
University Publishing Online Cambridge University Press; universitypublishingonline.org/; for free trials, go to universitypublishingonline.org/orgadmin/account_management.jsf?page=register&SIGNUP=Y CONTENT University Publishing Online (UPO) offers ebooks from Cambridge University Press and its partners, the Mathematical Association of America, Liverpool University Press, and Foundation Books (an imprint of Cambridge University Press India). The file currently lists 14,140 titles on anthropology; art; classical [...]
Art Phipps, Elena. Looking at Textiles: A Guide to Technical Terms. Getty Museum. 2012. 112p. photogs. bibliog. index. ISBN 9781606060803. pap. $18.95. REF Phipps, who worked as a textile conservator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for more than 30 years, expresses in this work her interest in the fibers, weave, and creation of textiles [...]
ProQuest; www.proquest.com/en-US/catalogs/databases/detail/vogue_archive.shtml; for a free trial, go to www.proquest.com/trials/requestTrialInput CONTENT The Vogue Archive offers the entire run, fully searchable, of the U.S. edition of Vogue magazine from its first issue in 1892 to the current month. Every page, advertisement, cover, and foldout is included, indexed, and reproduced as a high-resolution color image. The online indexing [...]
Talk at this year’s ALA Midwinter Meeting was of how dead it seemed, but, as usual, anecdata falls short of the real story. A total of 9,929 attendees (6,236 regular attendees and 3,693 exhibitor staff) converged in Dallas, a decrease of only 181 people from last Midwinter in San Diego. The mood was much lighter [...]
Cengage Learning. Gale Virtual Reference Library. 2011. www.gale.cengage.com/gvrl REF In a time of “Go digital or go home,” Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) is the perfect product for accomplishing just this in the reference environment. It allows librarians to build digital reference collections title by title, just as we’ve done for decades with print collections. Representing [...]
BRB’s Guide to County Court Records: A National Resource to Criminal, Civil, and Probate Records Found at the Nation’s County, Parish, and Municipal Courts. Facts on Demand, dist. by National Bk. Network. 2011. c.880p. ed. by Michael Sankey. maps. ISBN 9781889150574. pap. $34.50. REF Sankey (The MVR Book) has compiled a valuable reference to accessing [...]
EBSCO Publishing; www.ebscohost.com/ebooks/home; for a free trial, go to www.ebscohost.com/ebooks/ebooks-request-information/ebooks CONTENT EBooks on EBSCOhost (EBoE) is EBSCO’s collection of more than 265,000 ebooks across a spectrum of disciplines and subjects, integrated into the powerful and familiar EBSCOhost interface. I’ve gone on record saying that I very much like this interface, so the story here is [...]
American Psychological Association; psycnet.apa.org; for a free trial, go to www.apa.org/pubs/lj CONTENT The American Psychological Association (APA) describes PsycTESTS as encompassing “neuropsychological tests, personality assessments, skills and proficiency tests, and IQ and aptitude scales and measurements.” It mainly offers full-text instruments within the database—there are around 1500 of those—but also includes links to commercially available [...]
A colleague just sent me the link to this Harvard Graduate School of Design course, #: ADV-09115-00, Bibliotheca II: The Library Test Kitchen, which is being taught this spring by Jeffrey Schnapp and Jeffrey Goldenson. The course website describes the course: “This is a seminar about making. We will focus on designing, building and deploying [...]
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