Books in Print Online Now Includes
Book Reviews
The IU Northwest Library recently added book reviews
to its subscription to Books in Print Online. The database
contains over 600,000 full-text reviews from such respected reviewing
periodicals as Choice, Library Journal, Publishers
Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist and Horn
Book Magazine.
Here are instructions for obtaining these reviews.
- At the web site's main page, enter the book title, author or keyword
information in the Quick Search box and click Submit.
- The next screen will display a title list. If the specific title
has a review, a star appears to the left of the title.
- To see the review(s), click on the title link. At the next screen,
select the Title Reviews tab to read the available reviews.
In addition to the full-text reviews, this area also provides citations
and clickable links to book reviews located in other reviewing sources
such as the Chicago Tribune and the New York Times
Book Review.
To access Books in Print Online from
IU Northwest campus computers ONLY, go to the
IU Northwest
Library's Electronic Information Page and under the Library
Catalogs, Electronic Journals & Other Databases heading,
click the Other Databases link. At the next screen, select Books
in Print.
Favorite Web Sites: Country Information
The web sites featured this month have been critically evaluated and selected
by the IU Northwest librarians as well as a group of academic and public librarians across
the United States who compile a yearly Best
Free Reference Web Sites List for the American
Library Association. Here is a list of selection
criteria initially created by the MARS Best Free Websites Task Force to choose
these sites. The Library hopes our readers will find these web sites useful for
locating reliable, accurate and authoritative information on the Internet.
Covering approximately 100 countries, this site contains
the full text of the most recent volumes of the Country Studies/ Area Studies
series, prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress
under the sponsorship of the Department of the Army. Each book, which is searchable
and browsable, focuses on "...a particular foreign country, describing and analyzing
its political, economic, social and national security systems and institutions,
and examining the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped
by cultural factors." Photographs, maps, charts from the print versions are added
on an ongoing basis, except when the graphic files are not available. You can
search all the books (i.e. countries) at once, a combination, or just one. Each
book has an extensive Table of Contents. This is a great site for those who need
an overview of a country. (Summary used by permission of the MARS Best Free
Websites Committee)
This collection of resources offers much more than the
name implies. From the home page, one column of choices is arranged geographically
by region, with links to every official web site tat could be located, including
as well those of embassies, U.N. Missions and tourist authorities, and many unofficial
ones as well. Regional and international agency web sites are also included and
even collections of local government resources. A second column provides "related
foreign information" sources, including background sites such as the CIA World
Factbook or Parliaments
of the World; comprehensive listings of foreign governments, constitutions,
laws and treaties; embassies; and collections of news sources on the web. The
majority of geographical collections had been updated within the past month. (Summary
used by permission of the MARS Best Free Websites Committee)
The CIA produces the World Factbook to meet the
needs of government officials for background material on economic, geographic,
and political conditions in 267 countries around the globe. Locations can be
accessed within the "Country Listing" or by "Reference Maps." Over fifteen government
entities contribute to its production as well as other public and private sources.
Since it is in the public domain, it may be copied freely. Published annually,
it includes the latest material at the time of publication. (Summary used
by permission of the MARS Best Free Websites Committee)
U.S. Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection Now Available Through the IU
Libraries' Digital Library Program
The Digital Library Program and the Calumet Regional Archive at IU Northwest
are pleased to announce the availability of an online digital photograph collection
that captures the history of the U.S. Steel Works at Gary, Indiana, and the building
of Gary itself.
The U.S. Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection, 1906-1971 is accessible online
at http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/steel . It
includes not only a wealth of photographic documentation reflecting the
steel plant's rich history, but a host of other resources as well, including
bibliographies, suggested readings, and hypertext links to a wide range of
research and educational materials.
The U.S. Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection provides access to more than
2,200 digital images documenting the creation of the world's largest
steel mill during the height of America's industrial revolution. The collection
depicts the life and times of one of the nation's largest corporate towns,
documented by U.S. Steel photographers. And while the gaze of the camera's
eye often focuses upon the massive and varied industrial machinery of
the steel works, it also captures the lives of the men and women who worked
in and around it as well. The experience as a whole provides a startling portal
into the past of one of the most tumultuous periods of our nation's history.
Although the site will undoubtedly prove a valuable resource for scholars
and historians of American history and the Industrial Revolution alike, the
U.S. Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection was also carefully designed to
meet the unique needs of another target audience: school teachers and students.
As such, in addition to its core of documentary photography, the site
also includes guides for fourth grade, middle and high school teachers, as
well as question sets for classroom discussion.
The digitization project is supported by the Institute
of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library
Services and Technology Act, administered by the Indiana
State Library.
IU's Digital Library program is a university-wide partnership of the IU
Libraries, University Information
Technology Services, and the School
of Library and Information Science. ( This news release written
by Kristine R. Brancolini, Director of the Digital Library Program originally
appeared in the February 8, 2002 issue of IUL NEWS.)
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