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Free Access to These Databases for National Library Week
1. GALE Databases:Access is available from April 12 through April 18, 2010. Select the database through the dropdown menu and enter the password: trial.
Archives Unbound - a vast new resource of topically-focused, cross-searchable digital collections of historical documents
Career Transitions - a new electronic resource offering a comprehensive guide to career change
Global Issues in Context - this online resource offers global news and perspectives on issues and events of international importance
GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources) - a new electronic resource offering authoritative reference content on the environment, energy, economic development and natural resources
Grzimek's Animal Life - an interactive, media-rich online resource, with information on more than 4,000 species
2. Proquest Databases:Access is available from April 12 through April 18, 2010
History & Genealogy
ProQuest® African American Heritage (try it out | learn more) is a groundbreaking resource that brings together records critical to African American family history research and connects users to a community of research experts.
ProQuest Historical NewspapersTM - Black Newspapers (learn more) for eye-witness accounts of history being made, start here. Search and browse continuous runs of the following full-image Historical Newspapers:
- The Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988)
- Chicago Defender (1910-1975)
- Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005)
- New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993)
General Reference & Homework Help
CultureGramsTM (try it out | learn more) explore the world's cultures with local experts that document the history, customs, government, and daily life in multimedia reports on over 200 countries - from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
eLibrary® (try it out | learn more) this easy to use resource brings together content about in-demand subjects from millions of multimedia-rich, global resources.
SIRS Discoverer® (try it out | learn more) a safe, kid-friendly online research and discovery environment for young researchers from elementary to middle school.
SIRS® Issues Researcher (try it out | learn more) learn the origins, pros and cons, global perspectives and the essential questions under debate for more than 300 of today's social issues.
3. ABC CLIO Database: Daily Life Through History - Access available 04/07/2010 - 06/06/2010 Email vgonzalez@framingham.edu for username and password.
4. H.W. Wilson's Web's Current Issues: Careers - Access through 4/25/2010 Try it out.
5. Alexander Press's American History in Video - Access through 4/30/2010. Try it out.
National Library Week Calendar of Events
The Whittemore Library will be celebrating National Library Week on April 12-16. This year's theme is "Communities Thrive at Your Library". We have a number of activities and events planned for the campus community.
Have a library card - win a prize! One lucky winner each day of National Library Week will win a prize just for having a library card. Here is how to win: write your library card number on a slip, drop it into a box at the Circulation Area and the following morning, we will select a winner. Prizes are: FSC teddy bear, FSC t-shirt, FSC baseball cap, and FSC water bottle.
Monday, April 12: Displays of faculty publications and art, slideshow on the theme "Communities".
Wednesday, April 14: LibLearn session: "Language Resources on the Web", 2:30pm Archives Room, Instructor: Laura Wilson, Reference Librarian
Thursday, April 15: Book Group Discussion, The Heretics Daughter, 12:00pm Archives Room
Friday, April 16: Performance by Appalachian Travelers Musical Group 1:30pm Library entrance.
Curriculum Library will host a story time for the pre-school children from the Child Development lab.
