Friends of the Jacksonville Public Library

2 - December 2001 - Volume 2, Number 5

Library Now!

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The EBSCO Collection offers peer-reviewed academic journals in Academic Search Premier. Other EBSCO databases include Alternative Health Watch, Business Source Premier, Business Wire News, and EBSCO Animals.

ERIC is an index of educational journals and materials starting in 1966. You can access the Funk and Wagnall's New Encyclopedia, Health Source: Consumer Edition, and Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition.

MasterFILE Premier can be searched for more than 1,850 popular periodicals and company records from the Dun & Bradstreet database.

MAS FullTEXT Ultra: School Edition offers indexing and abstracts from the New York Times and 458 other titles.

MEDline with MESH (MEdical Subject Headings) will help you obtain information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the health care system.

Middle Search Plus is specifically designed for middle and junior high students. Primary Search Plus is designed for elementary school children Searchasaurus is for grades K-8.

Newspaper Source offers cover-to-cover electronic pages of 155 newspapers.

The Professional Development Collection is aimed at the needs of educators and includes images, as well as text, from journals.

The titles of the Psychology and Behavioral Science, the Religion and Philosophy, and the Sociological Collections are self-explanatory.

Have a general topic? In TOPICsearch you can browse more than 40,000 documents on politics, science, or social issues.

DATES TO SAVE IN 2002:

General meeting: February 7
Book sale: February 23

Wilson Applied Science and Technology has indexed more than 485 journals back to 1983.

The Gale Group offers a Biography and Genealogy Master Index indexing everyone from from Alexander Hamilton to Emilio Zapata.

The Business and Company Resource Center has current information on more than 300,000 business enterprises.

The Health and Wellness Resource Center includes 400 health and medical journals plus 2,200 general interest periodicals.

The Health Reference Center Academic is designed for health-related research in indexing, abstract, and full text.

Info Trac Custom Newspapers can be searched by title, headline, date, author, section, or other fields. Among the newspapers that are indexed from 1996 are the Austin American Statesman, the Dallas Morning News, the El Paso Times, and the Houston Chronicle.

For Spanish-speaking users, there is Informe!, which can be searched in Spanish or English.

The Literature Resource Center has information on authors and their works, both classic and contemporary.

The Scribner Writer Series offers biographies and critical essays on a host of writers. You may search by genre (science fiction) or ethnicity (Latin American) as well as by the name of the writer or the work.

Have a high school student? He or she could use Student Resource Center GOLD, with content based on national curriculum standards. Biographies, photographs, maps, articles from encyclopedias, and a host of other resources await your teenager.

The Texas Almanac will tell you all about your native state.

Twayne's Authors Series offers literary interpretation of the works of more than 600 authors. Search by time period, genre, language, ethnicity, or name.

What Do I Read Next? will give you award winners, best sellers, and recommended reading lists.

Grolier databases include its Multimedia Encyclopedia for ages 12 to adult, its Encyclopedia Americana, and its New Book of Knowledge. Nueva enciclopedia Cumbre en linea is available for Spanish speakers.

America's largest publisher is the Government Printing Office or GPO. Search its monthly catalog for new publications and older ones dating back to July 1976.

We're not through yet . . . how about MEDLINE, the World Almanac, and WorldCat, "the world's most comprehensive bibliography"?

Instead of putting your name on the list for a print version of a book, download the e-book to read on your computer! (True, it's not the same thing as holding a book in your hand, but you may read it weeks earlier!)

Friends applauds the efforts of the Library director and staff to keep our Library current in technology.

Friends of the Jacksonville Public Library ("Friends"), a Texas non-profit corporation, exists to support the mission of the Jacksonville Public Library, which is to assemble, organize, preserve, and make easily available significant books and other enriching materials that will provide information, stimulation, education, and recreation for every resident of the community.

Information published in Library Now! is offered for the benefit of members of Friends. Nothing stated herein is intended to, nor does it, express policy of the Jacksonville Public Library, its board of directors, or the City of Jacksonville, Texas. While contributions are welcome, Friends reserves the right to edit contributions based on space and relevance to activities of Friends.

Friends has been approved by the Internal Revenue Service for nonprofit status under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. Contributions to Friends may therefore be tax deductible to the donor. Each person should consult his or her tax advisor concerning this issue.