NOTES FROM RAMSEY LIBRARY ; 2005-5

NEW REFERENCE SOURCES FROM NC LIVE

You’ll recall that Ramsey Library provides access to electronic products paid for by NC LIVE — a collaboration of UNC system, public, community college, and private college libraries largely funded by the legislature.
These include some mainstays such as WorldCat, InfoTrac, and ABI-Inform and frees funds so that we can buy other materials you and your students need.
NC LIVE recently purchased some additional electronic reference sources which are available via the libraries web site . You’ll find some of the titles in the Gale Virtual Reference Library more appropriate for K-12, some may be of particular interest to you or your students. The latest edition of the COLLEGE BLUE BOOK is available in this collection as well as several encyclopedias under “History.” You’ll also find the 9th edition of the AFRICAN AMERICAN ALMANAC, the 3rd ed. of the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOETHICS, and the 2004 ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ISLAM AND THE MUSLIM WORLD. You’ll find these and more listed under GALE VIRTUAL REFERENCE LIBRARY at:

http://bullpup.lib.unca.edu/library/eres/erestitle.html

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CQ WEEKLY REPORT ONLINE

Another precious and important gift from our friends at NC LIVE is online, full-text access to the CQ (Congressional Quarterly) WEEKLY REPORT. The paper version and its annual cumulations into the CQ ALMANAC have long offered basic news and insiders’ insights into goings on in the federal government. Give the online version a try if you’re at all interested in national politics. Don’t let your political science buddies use it up!

CQ WEEKLY REPORT: http://library.cqpress.com/index.php

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