New Topic Pages at Credo Reference

Credo Reference has added these new topic pages this week. Cricket  Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir have been sentenced to prison terms for spot-fixing and match-fixing in exchange for large incentives enabled by large gambling rings. Such sentencing is the first of its kind as communication in a globalized world makes such situations [...]

Credo Reference: New Topic Pages

Doctors Without Borders  Two international aid workers of Spanish nationality have been kidnapped from a Kenyan refugee camp in Dadaab. Medecins san Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) has declared a state of emergency as they work with the proper authorities to find the kidnapped victims and bring them home safely.   Coffee Coffee bean farming has taken a hit as [...]

Credo Topic Pages – Border Security, Bullying, Solar Energy, Suicide, TSA

Credo Topic Pages are a new approach to presenting and organizing information resources. Topic pages provide context and vocabulary around a subject and act as a starting point for research. Credo currently has over 9,000 topic pages. They cover a wide range of subject areas – from art to medicine and literature to science. View [...]

New Topic Pages in Credo Reference

This week Credo Reference has added the following new Topic Pages. Vaccination Barack Obama DuPont Egyptian Protests

Gadgets in Credo Reference

Today we’re featuring the Credo Reference gadgets, which are right there every time you visit Credo Reference! We’ve got a pretty neat assortment of gadgets, including Define, Person, Images, Pronunciations, Crossword Solver, Quotations, Holidays and Festivals, and Conversions. To highlight a few: Crossword Solver: Get help with your crossword puzzles! For example, you can put [...]

Current Events: Wild Fires, Disaster Relief & Euro

Credo Reference Online has added three new Topic Pages this week reflecting current events happening around the world. Wildfire Disaster Relief Euro  Topic Pages provide background information on the topic as well as recent magazine and newspaper articles from a variety of other library resources.

New Topic Pages in Credo Reference

Harry Potter  Drought   Mumbai  Bomb  

New Topic Pages in Credo Reference

This week these topic pages have been added to Credo Reference. Tour de France  Sport  France  

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

This Week’s New Topic Pages

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

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 [...]

Last Day to Vote!

Today is the last day of voting for the Credo Reference Topic Page Contest. (http://corp.credoreference.com/contest)  If you have not already voted please do so today before 9pm PDT (Credo is based on the East coast). Thank you for voting!

Credo Reference Contest

Please don’t forget to vote for the Library in the Credo Reference Contest – http://corp.credoreference.com/contest. Voting is through April 5, 2011. You can vote only once from a single IP address but if you have a smartphone you can vote from your phone or your home computer. Thank you for voting!  

Vote Now!

Build a Bridge to Your Library Contest Finalists Announced! A virtual bridge, that is, connecting your library to your users using our Credo Topic Pages. The idea is simple – build a single web page using Credo Topic Pages to point to authoritative sources, images and more. We are a finalist at Credo Reference Topic [...]

Credo Reference Updates

The following updated title was recently released in Credo Reference . Expect more soon! The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide, Helicon   Also available in Credo Reference for African American Heritage Month: Black Firsts -2003 An epic record of African American achievement, it testified to a rich but often overlooked part of [...]

Credo Topic Pages

Credo Topic Pages are a new approach to presenting and organizing information resources. Topic pages provide context and vocabulary around a subject and act as a starting point for research. Credo currently has over 9,000 topic pages. They cover a wide range of subject areas – from art to medicine and literature to science. View [...]

National Gallery, London

Coming soon… Credo Reference will includes high resolution images of the paintings found in the National Gallery, London. Students and library patrons will now be able to find the beautiful images of these national treasures whenever they search Credo Reference . In addition to the images, Credo will include the National Gallery Companion Guide, If [...]

Credo Reference – Keyword Searching

Got 2:30 minutes? Want to learn how to search Credo Reference ? Just click the picture to view the video. This video is also available to patrons on The Librarian’s Brain – How-to-Video page.

Credo Reference – Training

Credo Reference Training January 29, 2009 – 11am – Noon @ CC – Virtual Library Training Room Please RSVP to Steve Baskin @ baskins@lvccld.org Credo Reference is one stop shopping for encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, not to mention a range of subject-specific titles. Be sure to try the “Concept Map”, it’s really cool!