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New eBooks: Gale Virtual Reference Library Encyclopedia of Diets Encyclopedia of Science Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia Shakespeare for Students Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol & Addictive Behavior	New Databases: African-American History Online African American Song American History in Video American Song Biography Resource Center Bloom's Literary Reference Online Classical Music Library Columbia Granger's Poetry	Contemporary World Music Facts On File portal page Jazz Music Library Music Online: Listening Science Online Serials Solution Smithsonian Global Sound
EBSCO includes Communications & Mass Media, Business Source, Health Source, Newspaper Source, Psychology & Behavioral Sciences, Religion & Philosophy, History Reference Center... which contains magazine, journal, and newspaper articles, almanac, maps, images, more.
NewsBank: national, regional and local - includes: New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury, TriValley Herald, Valley Times...	Explores a single "hot" issue from the news weekly - background, outlook, statistics.	125,000 full-text poems, stories, biographies, & best-known speeches; explanations, study guides, a glossary, pictures ... How To Use LitFinder
500,000 images covering art, architecture & archeology. View & analyze images; save images online for personal or shared uses; create & deliver presentations both on & offline.	Journal, magazine, and newspaper articles from the ethnic, minority & native press.	Contains 10,955 monographs describing significant chemicals, drugs, & biological substances.
Comprehensive life histories of North American birds with image and video galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and nestlings, and recordings of songs and calls. How to cite.	Journal, magazine, and newspaper articles focus on the impact of gender on culture and society.	NoodleBib: MLA & APA citations. Off-campus users: First, log in using W# and Library Password, then log in with your NoodleBib ID and Password.
Political, economic, business information and maps for countries.	Criticism, biographies, work overviews and explications, periodical articles, compare and contrast pages, and author's works.	Current topics covering the facts and the pros and cons of each issue.
Learn how to research library databases and the web, evaluate websites, create citations and use NoodleBib.	Selected list of educational streaming video.	ipl2: Information You Can Trust A merger of the Librarians' Internet Index (LII) and the Internet Public Library (IPL), ipl2 is a searchable, evaluated and annotated subject directory to high-quality Web resources.
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Other Search Engines and Subject Directories Google - huge, comprehensive, popular guide Google Scholar (Beta) - search specifically for scholarly literature, fee based INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections Search Engines in Languages Other than English Yahoo! - popular, commercial, big	Spring 2010: January 19 to May 29 Monday - Thursday: 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. Friday: 8 a.m. - 2 p.m. Saturday: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Sunday: Closed	Spring 2010: Library Closed January 18 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day) February 12-15 (President's Weekend) April 5-11 (Spring Break)
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