RAMble: WCU Libraries News & Views: Posts from December 2007

Library Database News

New Databases, 1/29/10
African American Newspapers, 1827-1998
Full-text for over 60 newspapers from across the United States.

Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980
Full-text for more than 300 newspapers in Spanish or English.

New Database, 12/03/2009

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
The complete text of 33 volumes of the original DNB plus supplements.

New Databases, 11/6/2009

Contemporary World Music
A blend of contemporary and traditional world music recordings.

Global Health
A public health database produced by CABI Publishing.

North American Indian Drama
Plays by members of the indigenous nations of North America plus the text of the Native Playwrights' Newsletter.

Opera in Video
Some of the most studied operas for music history, opera literature, and performance classes.

Black Drama, 2nd edition
Expanded from the first edition.

New Database, 9/16/2009

National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts
Indexing and summaries for criminal-justice related material in books, reports, and journals.

New Databases, 9/10/2009

Gender Watch
Full-text database on the women's movement, men's studies, and lesbian, gay and transgender studies.

Nineteenth Century British Pamphlets
from JSTOR

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Russian, & Spanish.

New Database, 8/21/2009

Direction of Trade Statistics- see listing on this page for instructions.

New Databases, 6/18/2009

Jazz Music Library
Great artists from the past and the present - another excellent music database from Alexander Street Press. Also cross-searchable as part of the Music Online database. Listen online today!

New Databases, 5/28/2009

African American Music Reference

Classical Music Reference Library
Includes the authoritative reference works, Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music.

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
The online edition of the 10-volume print set devoted to music research of all the world's peoples.

Music Online
Cross-Search ALL library music databases from Alexander Street Press - Try it!!

New Database, 3/17/2009

Middle Search Plus
Resource for K-12 teaching and learning.

Posts from December 2007

E-ZBorrow / PALCI / PILOT / Remote access to databases

E-ZBorrow & the PALCI site: unavailable Tuesday 12/18/07.
See the Library Systems Status & Alerts blog.

PILOT library catalog: briefly unavailable Tuesday 12/18/07, 5:30-7:30 a.m.
Remote access to library databases: briefly unavailable Wednesday 12/18/07, 6:00-7:30 a.m.
-- temporary inconvenience for improved service --

Happy Holidays from all of us at WCU Libraries !

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