Category Archives: Information Resources

Staff of small to mid-sized museums, libraries and archives, who seek to enhance collections care at their institutions, are the target audience for six free webinars presented this fall. Recordings of the first five and login information for the final December 9th session are accessible at
http://learningtimesevents.org/c2c/
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), in partnership with Heritage Preservation and the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH), presented the series based on the national initiative Connecting to Collections: A Call to Action.
Using the content of the Connecting to Collections Bookshelf, Forums, and Workshops, these highly interactive webinars connect you with experts and colleagues to discuss issues of common concern. The series has a dual focus: four webinars help you learn how to conduct outreach to the media, the public, and funders on behalf of collections, and two webinars help you derive maximum benefit from the Connecting to Collections Bookshelf.
The Library Commission has the Connecting to Collections Bookshelf, which is available for loan to Nebraska library, museum and archive staff.

Bookshelf list and borrowing information

Facts on File is offering Nebraska libraries trial access to the following four databases through December 15, 2010:

• The World Almanac for Kids Online – Erasing the line between homework aid and fun reading, The World Almanac® for Kids Online expands on the contents of The World Almanac® for Kids print edition, along with other award-winning reference books from World Almanac®, Chelsea House, and Facts On File. A natural complement to the curriculum, the online site provides resources for homework, reports, and projects. Kids can explore grade-appropriate topics in a fun format while developing online research skills with a trusted source.

• Writer’s Reference Center – The new Writer’s Reference Center provides users with a convenient onestop location for all of the tools necessary to write and research effectively. From the mechanics of writing and grammar to style and research, this indispensable online resource thoroughly covers the fundamentals of quality writing and provides a wealth of vocabulary-building reference dictionaries. Greatly expanding on essential references such as the comprehensive dictionary and thesaurus, this resource covers numerous thematic areas, explaining the roots of words, phrases, allusions, clichés, proverbs, and more. An in-depth grammar section defines grammatical terms and gives examples of use, while another section explains the meaning and usage of frequently confused words. Writing resources teach users how best to write and revise their work. The easy-to-use interface and intuitive design allow users to quickly find relevant information through customizable searches and browsing.

• Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center – The critically acclaimed Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center features authoritative, wide-ranging content that is accessible and intuitively organized. This comprehensive career research database is broken down into three main sections: Job and Industry Profiles, Job-Hunting and Workplace Skills, and Career and Industry Resources. Our career research database is known for its unprecedented depth of coverage and variety of user-friendly content formats. The material is drawn from a range of authoritative sources and is extensively indexed.

• Bloom’s Literary Reference Online – Bloom’s Literary Reference Online features content from Facts On File’s extensive print literature collection, hundreds of Harold Bloom’s essays examining the lives and works of great writers throughout history and the world, and thousands of critical articles published by noted scholars under the Bloom’s Literary Criticism imprint. This accessible database also contains an archive of more than 46,000 characters; extensive entries on literary topics, themes, movements, genres, and authors; almost 170 video segments; and more. Handy browse and search features include in-text links, record links, and numerous options for further research. Entries can be browsed by time period within American, British, and world literature; by author type; by literary genre; by nationality; by an A-to-Z list; and by subject for images and videos. Author biographies link to a list of major works, and works are linked to a list of principal characters.

Trial Dates: November 15, 2010 through December 15, 2010
Trial Access Instructions: Trial access instructions were distributed via a November 16, 2010 message to the TRIAL mailing list. If you didn’t receive this message or you would like to have it sent to you again, please email Susan Knisely

EBSCO Publishing is offering Nebraska libraries trial access to the following databases through the end of fall semester:

• Literary Reference Center Plus – is a full text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing.
• MLA International Bibliography – offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 2.2 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers. The indexed materials coverage is international and includes almost 60 titles from J-STOR’s language and literature collection as well as links to full text.
• MLA Directory of Periodicals – offers detailed information on over 5,500 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.
• Education Research Complete – is the definitive online resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,100 journals, as well as full text for more than 1,200 journals, and includes full text for nearly 500 books and monographs.
• Alternative Press Index – is a bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 300 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. Covering theories and practices of socialism and revolution alongside ecology, democracy and anarchism, feminism and organized labor, indigenous peoples and gays/lesbians, API coverage is both international and interdisciplinary. Coverage begins in 1991.
• Criminal Justice Abstracts – contains hundreds of in-depth abstracts of current books, book chapters, journal articles, government reports, and dissertations published worldwide. Criminal Justice Abstracts also offers extensive coverage of new books from scholarly and commercial publishers and valuable reports from public and private agencies in many nations.
• Communication Abstracts – A comprehensive source of information about communication-related publications on a world-wide scale, Communication Abstracts covers major communication-related articles, reports, chapters, and books from a variety of publishers, research institutions, and information sources.

Trial URL: http://trial.ebscohost.com
Trial Dates: October 21, 2010 through January 21, 2011
Nebraska librarians may email Susan Knisely to request trial access instructions.