New Gale Virtual Reference Library eBooks

American Decades 2000-2009 Videohound’s Golden Movie Retriever 2012  

New Portal Pages in Gale’s In Context Databases

Biography in Context Fifty-two new people pages have been added, including contemporary world leaders, American first ladies, Nobel Prize winners, filmmakers, and more. Examples to highlight: • Mahmoud Abbas • Laura Bush • Hu Jintao • Hamid Karzai • Lee Myung-bak • Benjamin Netanyahu • Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis • Nancy Reagan • Martin Scorsese • [...]

Huge News from Freegal

Dear Freegal Customers, I just wanted to share some important and exciting news about the Freegal Music Service. Library Ideas has reached a deal with IODA Alliance to bring their roster of incredible music to our service.   This is the centerpiece of a Freegal 3.0 Initiative (1.0 was launch, 2.0 was refinements and the subscription [...]

Credo Reference New Topic Pages

Credo Reference publishes new Topic Pages every week to reflect current events and timely content. Take a look at this week’s latest Topic Pages! Topic Pages for this week     Police Database Afghanistan War Hamid Karzai Wimbledon

Monday Morning Smile

I’m looking for a book about Sucrets. He’s a philosopher. Carlos Fernandez Miami, FL Socrates, whose name literally means “revealing excellence,” was born in Athens around 470 BCE and is considered the father of philosophy. He is known to modern readers only through the written works of other philosophers and historians. In fact, it’s unclear whether [...]

Resources for Women’s Health

Thinking of doing a health fair?  Here are some free resources from Health and Wellness Resource Center: Women have unique health needs, but the good news is that there is plenty of great information out there to aid us in our quest to live healthy lives. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office [...]

eBooks in the News

Library E-Book Checkouts Get a Major Boost – New York Times article.

This Week’s New Topic Pages

Topic Pages for this week can be found in Credo Reference. China Energy Efficiency Domestic Workers

Review: Get digital with the Aluratek Libre Color

So you are ready step forward into the digital age and jump on the eBook reader bandwagon. BUT you find yourself on a budget. What is a tech-lover to do? Well, late last year, Aluratek released the Libre Color for a fraction of the cost of the NOOKcolor. First and foremost this is a tried [...]

OverDrive to provide DRM-free eBook titles from O’Reilly Media

Today OverDrive announced it will offer 1500 DRM free eBook titles from O’Reilly is in relation to the new WIN platform.  Great news! More from the press release:  OverDrive announced today that booksellers, libraries, and schools in its global network will soon have access to DRM-free eBook titles from O’Reilly Media. The publisher’s entire eBook [...]

Sharing Links on Event Details

Over a week ago we added the ‘share’ buttons to the detail page of each event.  This is the same share button which can be found in the Library Catalog.  It allows patrons to share an event to email addresses, tweet it, add it to their Facebook page, etc. The idea, is to provide a [...]

Monday Morning Smile

Where are the science fair project books about dragons? Lorie O’Donnell Jervis Public Library Rome, NY In ancient times, dragons often represented evil, destruction, and death. In some cases, as in Norse myth, dragons represent greed. They are usually portrayed as frightening and destructive monsters. Gods and heroes must slay them in symbolic battles of [...]

New Gale Literature Titles

  Contemporary Literary Criticism Vol 305 Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism Vol 240 Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism Vol 241 Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism Vol 242 Poetry Criticism Vol 116 Poetry Criticism Vol 117 Short Story Criticism Vol 152 Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism Vol 250 Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism Vol 251 Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism Vol 252

MERGE Meeting

OverDrive WIN

OverDrive will launch Overdrive WIN, a series of platform enhancements this June.  Read more..

2011 ALA Virtual Conference

Are any staff members interested in attending one or more programs provided in this year’s ALA Virtual Conference?  Robb will work on HR to provide the registration fee provided there is interest.  All sessions will be hosted by the Virtual Library at the Windmill Service Center.   I’m taking a poll to determine the interest [...]

New GVRL Titles

Business Plan Handbook Volume 21 Pirates through the Ages

New Topic Pages in Credo Reference

Each week Credo Reference adds new Topic Pages to the database.  Topic pages provide an overview of the topic including the history of the topic and links to content in some of our other databases.  This week the new additions are: Topic Pages for this week      Syria Turkey Palestinian Refugees   Additional Timely Topics [...]

New eReference Books in GVRL

We have update the Gale Virtual Reference Library with updated titles and a selection of new titles to expand our online reference collection.  Over the next couple of weeks, those books which are new, I will be providing an in-depth look at them to give you an idea of their contents. African – Americans African [...]

New Gale Directories Now Available

The following have been added to Gale Directory Library:  GDL: American Wholesalers and Distributors Directory, 22nd ed.  GDL: Awards, Honors, Prizes, 32nd ed.  GDL: Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media, 147th ed.