Here you are at the Reference Desk happily ready to serve the public when you are asked to recommend a story about firefighters for a child in grade 2. The Children's Librarian has gone for lunch. You…are Alone! This is when I turn to the latest edition of "A to Zoo: Subject Access to Children's […]
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Chilton On-Line Auto Repair Manuals are the go to reference sources for do-It-yourself automotive enthusiasts, professionals and students. Chilton has been helping people maintain cars and trucks for more than 80 years. Chilton’s Auto Repair database provides online repair manuals, maintenance schedules, service bulletins, photographs, diagnostics designed by instructors, step-by-step procedures, wiring diagrams. Chilton can […]
I recently came across a short TEDx Talk by Chrystie Hill, Community Services Director for OCLC's WebJunction, and author of Inside, Outside, and Online: Building Your Library Community. In it, she asks the audience to think about that all-too familiar question, "When everything is online, why come to the library at all?" Her talk is […]
The summr edition of ola.access has a long article by Jennifer Dekker on websites and protals to sources on European history. Her article is based on another rticle about the Digital Scriptorium project where author Stephen G. Nichols compares the creation, production, circulation and accessibility of manuscripts in the medieval period to the same […]
I surprised a user once by how fast I found something in the index of an encyclopedia, then found it in the encyclopedia. I wasn't especially fast. I thought he must be surprised at how I went from the index to the volume the topic was in. But the surprise he expressed was at how […]
Looking for jazz music downloads? Naxos Records started as a large independent classical music label and has recently released Naxos Music Library Jazz. This database contains over 7,500 jazz titles from Naxos Jazz and over 200 other labels such as Blue Note, EMI, Fantasy and Warner Jazz. The genres included are contemporary jazz, jazz, blues, […]
Summer is a great time to get caught up on magazine reading. Zinio eMagazines, a new service, offers unlimited access to current issues of over 300 popular magazines. You can check out as many magazines as you like. Magazine issues are always available and remain on your computer or device until you delete […]
Mango Languages database is an online language-learning system that can help you learn over 30 languages like Spanish, French, Japanese, German, Greek, Italian and more. The online language learning resource uses real-life situations and actual conversations to more effectively teach a new language. By listening to and repeating after material designed from native conversations, you […]
Canada in Context is a good place to start to find information on topics like Canadian history, government, science, geography, literature, people and more. You can browse by topic or search using keywords. You can also limit your search by news, images, audio, videos or magazine articles. If you click on the Resources tab you […]