Annotated List of TexShare Databases
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GENERAL INFORMATION
Academic Search Premier
By far the world’s most valuable and most numerous collection of active full text peer-reviewed journals, Academic Search Complete is expected to contain indexing for 9,000 serials, with full text for 5,500 of those titles. Updated monthly, this database is useful for a wide range of disciplines including art and architecture, humanities, science and mathematics, philosophy, politics, and religion.
Fuente Academica*
Fuente Academica provides PDF full text for 260 scholarly publications covering many areas of academic study. Content is provided in Spanish from respected publishers worldwide, including Revista de Arquitectura, Estudios Sobre Educacion, Revista de Estudios Hispanicos, Comunicacion y Sociedad, Revista de Ciencia Politica, Revista Historia, and more.
Funk and Wagnall’s New Encyclopedia
The Funk & Wagnall’s New World Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records, covering a huge array of topics. Double click on the topic for full-text display. Images are offered as well as brief biographies and a wide range of subject information. InfoTrac Custom Newspapers InfoTrac Custom Newspapers offers a collection of over 400 full-text newspapers from around the globe. Updated daily, articles are indexed and searchable by title, author, headline, date or section. Cover-to-cover coverage of USA Today, Austin-American Statesman from 1996, Washington Times from 1996, Houston Chronicle from 1996, The Financial Times from 1996, The Times (London) since 1985, and many more.
Legal Collection
Containing full text from nearly 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals, the Legal Collection is an authoritative source for legal information. It covers topics such as criminal justice, international and federal law, organized crime, medical, labor & human resource law, ethics, the environment and much more. Many of the journals included are full text.
MasterFile Premier
An EBSCO product designed specifically for public libraries, MasterFile Premier is updated daily. It provides full-text for over 2,000 general reference resources starting as early as 1975. It also includes full-text biographies, book reviews, and primary source documents as well as a large image collection containing photographs, maps, and flags.
Military and Government Collection
A great resource for current news relating to all branches of the military and government, the Military and Government Collection, offers indexing and abstracts for more than 500 sources as well as full-text for almost 300 periodicals and journals. Many of the full-text titles are also in pdf format and easy to search electronically.
NetLibrary (27,000 eBooks)
More than 27,000 eBooks are available for browsing, searching, and virtual check-out through NetLibrary. TexShare's eBook collection includes titles from the world's leading business, technology, trade, reference, academic, and scholarly publishers. Search by title, author, keyword, publisher, publication date, or ISBN number. You may either view the book online or check it out electronically for a limited time.
Newspaper Source
Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for 20 large American & international newspapers, including The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Times (London), Toronto Star. The database also contains selected full text for more than 230 regional newspapers, including The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald, Daily News (New York), and the San Jose Mercury News. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, FOX News, and NPR.
Religion and Philosophy Collection
The comprehensive Religion and Philosophy Collection covers world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. It offers more than 300 full text journals and is a superlative tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophy.
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BUSINESS RESOURCES
EBSCO Business Source Complete
The world’s largest resource of full text business publications. Business Source Complete offers full text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, banking, and finance. Indexing, abstracts, and full text are available as far back as 1886. Additional full text content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.
Economia y Negocios*
Economía y Negocios is the result of a collaborative effort between EBSCO Publishing and ESAN (Escuela de Administración de Negocios para Graduados). This continuously updated bibliographic database is an indispensable tool for research conducted in the areas of business and economics. It allows you to search with keywords in both Spanish and English. More than 60,000 records, dating back to the early 1980s, provide coverage for over 200 Spanish and Portuguese-language periodicals published in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain, the United States and elsewhere. Active titles include Revista de la CEPAL, Revista de Administraçao, Estudios Empresariales, and Agroeconómico.
InfoTrac Custom Newspapers
InfoTrac Custom Newspapers offers a collection of over 400 newspaper sources from around the globe for full-text articles. Updated daily, the articles are indexed and searchable by title, author, headline, date or section. Cover-to-cover coverage of USA Today, Austin-American Statesman from 1996, Washington Times from 1996, Houston Chronicle from 1996, The Financial Times from 1996, The Times (London) since 1985, and many more.
Regional Business News
With daily updates, Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text for regional business publications (including titles from Crain Communications). This database provides full text for more than 50 sources, concentrating on state and county information about local business.
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BOOKS AND LITERATURE
20th Century Poetry Collections
A merger of both their English and American poetry collections, this ProQuest database covers the time period from 1900 to the present. It contains over 70,000 poems from 285 poets, including over forty distinguished authors from the Faber Poetry Library. It is an excellent resource for discovering the diverse and dynamic scope of modern poetry.
20th Century American Poetry
This unparalleled collection includes 52,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets. The 20th Century American Poetry Collection reflects the variety and dynamism of American poetic voices in this century of change; all major movements and schools are represented. In addition, it includes many contemporary writers of the 1980s and 90s who have gained recognition through national poetry awards or publication in leading print anthologies.
Contemporary Authors
Contemporary Authors presents complete and up-to-date biographical and bibliographical information on more than 125,000 U.S. and international authors.
Contemporary Literary Criticism
Contemporary Literary Criticism offers full text essays on over 800 contemporary authors and their works. This includes biographical and critical essays as well as extensive information for further study.
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Dictionary of Literary Biography provides over 12,000 biographical and full-text critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
Literature Resource Center
The Literature Resource Center is most comprehensive and current online database on authors and their works. It provides full-text literary criticism, biographies, bibliographies, and work overviews covering authors from every genre, time period and discipline. Combining Gale's most-used literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 130,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers such as philosophers, filmmakers, and anthropologists.
Scribner Writers
Gain access to over 1,800 original and detailed bio-critical essays on the lives and works of important authors from around the world. Many authors in the Scribner Writers Series are seen from multiple perspectives through two, three or sometimes four essays. Students can go directly to an entry on a specific author, combine search criteria for a more complex search, or explore thematic and chronological topics to make connections among writers.
Twayne’s Authors Series
The Twayne's Authors Series of literary criticism offers in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements, and to the development of literary genres. This online series features the content of nearly 600 books that comprise three print series --United States Authors, English Authors and World Authors.
WorldCat
An online catalog of library materials from OCLC member libraries. A useful tool for finding materials in other libraries, it provides indexes of books, periodicals, audio-visual materials, newspaper, films, maps, musical scores and internet resources. It covers 1000 BC to the present and millions of bibliographic records from around the world, updated daily.
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HOMEWORK AND EDUCATION
EBSCO Student Research Center
A search interface designed specifically for secondary school students according to their needs and search abilities. These students can use topic headings to search between magazines, newspapers, biographies, country reports, and film & video.
EBSCO Kids
Search A search interface with a bright, child-friendly design that gives elementary students easy access to EBSCO’s trustworthy collections.
Among the sources included are: Book Collection: Non-Fiction, EBSCO Animals, History Reference Center, Image Collection, Middle Search Plus, Newspaper Source, Primary Search, Science Reference Center, and TOPICsearch.
EBSCOHost en español* (interfaz en español contraduccion de los articulos)
Base de datos sobre muchos temas- incluye texto completo. Los articulos están traducidos por un programa de la computadora del inglés.
Encyclopedia of Animals
Help your students discover the wild world of animals through our Encyclopedia of Animals. This extensive collection provides students with thousands of easy-to-read entries about mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, dinosaurs and prehistoric animals. Each entry begins with a simple category breakdown of the animal including Kingdom, Class, Order, Genus & Species, and Geographical Locale as well as a detailed description. Many entries include colorful images.
eLibrary Curriculum*
Designed for libraries, eLibrary Curriculum delivers a large general reference collection. It includes not only periodical and digital media but two subject based collections as well; literature and history. Powered by the MediaSeek knowledge base of educational standards, educators can search for resources that correlate to state and national standards. It offers more than 2,225 full-text magazines, newspapers, reference books, and transcripts plus thousands of pictures, maps, weblinks, and audio/video content. It is a powerful curriculum support tool particularly for English Language Arts and Social Studies.
ERIC
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. ERIC provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with additional information, citations, and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.
Mas Ultra: School Edition
This comprehensive database, designed specifically for high school libraries, contains full text for more than 700 popular high school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). It provides more than 80,000 biographies and primary source documents. The Mas Ultra School Edition also offers pamphlets, reference books, photos, maps & flags, and articles as far back as 1975. It includes the Our States series as well, a new collection made up of 54 titles on each of the states, commonwealths and territories in the United States.
Middle Search Plus
Middle Search Plus contains full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies, historical essays and student pamphlets. Additionally, Middle Search Plus contains primary source documents, reference books, an Image Collection of 192,999 photos, and maps and flags. It also includes the Our States series, a new collection made up of 54 titles on each of the states, commonwealths and territories in the United States. Primary Search Primary Search, designed specifically for elementary school libraries, contains full text for more than 60 popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Primary Search includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, and images, all with the reading levels and interests of elementary school children firmly in mind. Professional Development Collection The most comprehensive collection of full-text education journals in the world, the Professional Development Collection includes full text for nearly 550 high quality education journals as well as more than 200 educational reports.
Searchasaurus
Searchasaurus is a fun and colorful search interface designed especially for children in grades K-2. Among the sources included are: EBSCO Animals, Primary Search, Image Collection, Book Collection: Nonfiction, Funk & Wagnall’s New World Encyclopedia.
TOPIC Search
This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms, including controversial opinions and viewpoints. TOPIC Search contains full text for over 100,000 articles from 2,500 diverse sources such as international and regional newspapers, EBSCO’s unparalleled periodicals collection, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, government information, and the EBSCO Current Issues database.
Vocational and Career Collection
The Vocational and Career Collection is designed to meet a wide variety of vocational and technical research needs. It provides full text coverage for nearly 400 trade and industry-related periodicals including American Machinist, Modern Machine Shop, Pediatric Nursing, Wireless Week, Drug Store News, Video Business, Reeves Journal, Hotel and Motel Management, Restaurant Business, Advertising Age and many more.
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GENEALOGY, HISTORY, AND TEXAS
Bibliography of Native North Americans
The Bibliography of Native North Americans™ addresses all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. It contains more than 80,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. Dates of coverage range from the sixteenth century to the present. BNNA will appeal to anyone interested in exploring the contributions, struggles, and issues surrounding North America's indigenous peoples
Handbook of Texas
The Handbook of Texas, provided by the Texas State Historical Association, is a multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture. It comprises more than 23,000 articles on people, places, events, historical themes, institutions, and a host of other topic categories. The scope is broad and inclusive, designed to provide readers with concise, authoritative, and accessible articles that provide factual, nonpartisan accounts on virtually every aspect of Texas history and culture.
HeritageQuest Online
ProQuest’s premier genealogical resource, Heritage Quest provides access to the complete U.S. Census from 1790 to1930 as well as the Periodical Source Index (PERSI), the Revolutionary War Pension Applications & Bounty Land Warrant Applications, and the Freedman’s Bank Records. Local histories and primary source materials relating to towns and families in the U.S., Canada, England, and Ireland are also included. You will be able to search by family name, geographic area, title, or subject.
Texas Digital Sanborn Maps
Provides digital access to more than 660,000 large-scale maps of over 12,000 American towns and cities from 1867 to 1970. Founded in 1867 by D. A. Sanborn, the Sanborn Map Company was the primary American publisher of fire insurance maps for nearly 100 years. Sanborn maps are valuable research tools for geographers, social historians, urban specialists, genealogists, planners, local historians, architects, environmentalists, and anyone who wants to learn about the history, growth, and development of American cities, towns, and neighborhoods. Users of Digital Sanborn Maps have the ability to manipulate the maps, magnify and zoom in on specific sections, and easily print them out.
Texas Reference Center
Texas Reference Center is designed specifically for Texas school and public libraries. Soon Expanding to 100 full text periodicals, 100 full text reference books, several Texas newspapers, it offers such titles as: Best in Texas, Texas Business Review, Texas Education Review, Texas Journal of Agriculture & Natural Resources, Texas Journal of Women & the Law, Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights, Texas Law Review, Texas Magazine, Texas Monthly, Texas Public Health Association Journal, Texas Review, Touchstone (Texas State Historical Association), and many more.
World History Collection
World History Collection offers a global look at history with content from 6 continents. It contains full text for 150 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals, some dating as far back as 1964. These hand-selected information sources cover a wide range of historical topics including anthropology, art, culture, economics, government, heritage, military, politics, regional issues, and more. In addition to the many full text articles, indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals in the collection. Many of these are in PDF format and can be searched electronically.
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HEALTH AND MEDICINE
Alt Health Watch
Alt Health focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It provides a broad spectrum of articles from national and international journals, reports, proceedings to association & consumer newsletters. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Full text titles include American Acupuncturist, American Homeopath, Gerson Healing Newsletter, Health & Homeopathy, JOY: The Journal of Yoga, Massage Magazine, Natural Life, Reiki News, Today's Chiropractic, Yoga Journal and many others. This resource provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine.
EBSCO Consumer Health Complete*
Consumer Health Complete is comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health issues. It is designed to help patients understand health care topics. It covers all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, and the health of men, women, and children. There are more than 4,100 reports based on medical evidence, nearly 5,500 reports from Clinical Pharmacology and more than 1,200 videos made by doctors. In addition to hundreds of pictures and diagrams, CHC offers the full-text of 176 health reference books and encyclopedias.
EBSCO Natural and Alternative Treatments
Natural and Alternative Treatments is a complementary and alternative medicine database designed specifically for the consumer-health researcher. The database contains almost 200 articles on medical conditions. It presents alternative medicine therapies based on medical evidence as well as information on herbs and supplements, functional foods, and therapies such as acupuncture and homeopathy. An additional section, linked to the others, provides comprehensive information on drug/herb/supplement interactions. The articles contained in the database are entirely based on double-blind, placebo-controlled studies and other forms of meaningful scientific evidence. More than 12,000 such studies are cited and new studies are added regularly. The content has been developed and reviewed by a team of physicians and pharmacologists with the goal of providing consumers with reliable information.
Health and Wellness Resource Center
The Health and Wellness Resource Center is an in-depth, user-friendly resource designed to be a one-stop place for health research on topics such as pregnancy, nutrition, diseases, drug abuse, prescription drugs, and more. It includes information from journals, magazines, pamphlets, and websites. There are 879 indexed sources, of which 662 are full text. It offers additional information on alternative topics such as herbal remedies, yoga, homeopathy, midwifery, and chiropractic.
Health Reference Center Academic
Health Reference Center Academic provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health information sources. It integrates the full text and images of respected nursing, allied health and medical journals; consumer health magazines; newsletters; pamphlets; newspaper articles; topical interviews; and key reference books.
Health Source: Consumer Edition*
This is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide. Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 300 full text, consumer health periodicals. This database also includes searchable full text for more than 1,000 health-related pamphlets and 129 health reference books, including books published by the People's Medical Society. This database also contains more than 4,500 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish), Clinical Pharmacology, which provides access to 1,100 drug monograph entries and 2,700 patient education fact sheets, and Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary. It covers topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, and women's health.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Health Source: Nursing Academic Edition provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong, including full text from Creative Nursing, Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, Issues in Mental Health Nursing, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, Journal of Clinical Nursing, Journal of Community Health Nursing, Journal of Nursing Management, Nursing Ethics, Nursing Forum, Nursing Inquiry, and many more. It also includes the Clinical Pharmacology database, providing access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products, and new drugs.
MedicLatina™ *
MedicLatina™ is a unique collection of medical research and investigatory journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers. This Spanish language database contains the complete table of contents and PDF full text for nearly 100 peer-reviewed medical journals in native Spanish. A wide range of topics are covered including neuroscience, cardiology, nephrology, biomedicine, clinical research, pediatrics, human reproduction, clinical pathology, cancer research, and hematology. Titles include Revista Medica del IMSS, Revista Mexicana de Patologia Clinica, Boletin Medico del Hospital Infantil de Mexico, Archivos de Neurociencias, Revista Biomedica, Veterinaria Mexico, Salud Publica de Mexico, ACIMED, and more.
MEDline with MeSH
MEDline with MeSH provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDline uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. Included are citations from Index Medicus, International Nursing Index, Index to Dental Literature, HISTLINE, SPACELINE, PREMEDLINE®, AIDSLINE®, BIOETHICSLINE®, and HealthSTAR®. This is a useful tool well suited to medical students and other health professionals.
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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
AGRICOLA
AGRICOLA contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Coverage dates back to 1970 and includes more than 2.5 million citations. The citations are comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture.
Computer Source
Featuring more than 300 full text periodicals covering topics such as computers, telecommunications, electronics and the Internet. Computer Source™ offers a good, full-text selection of technical journals and consumer computer resources.
Encyclopedia of Animals
Help your students discover the wild world of animals through our Encyclopedia of Animals. This extensive database provides students with thousands of easy-to-read entries about mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, dinosaurs and prehistoric animals. Each entry begins with a simple category breakdown of the animal including Kingdom, Class, Order, Genus & Species, and Geographical Locale as well as a detailed description. Many entries include colorful images.
Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts
With materials dating back as far as the 1980’s Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts provides access to information tracking the rise of the computer in business, the Internet, the home, and all other applied areas. Over 400 of the most important trade publications, mainstream computer magazines, and professional journals are covered, including those that focus on specific topics such as Macintosh and Windows platforms, programming, web development and more. Special emphasis is also given to hardware and software reviews as well as editor-selected articles from hundreds of popular computer magazines. Psychology and Behavioral Science Collection The Psychology and Behavioral Science Collection™ is a comprehensive database covering such topics as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. It contains full text for nearly 600 journals.
Science and Technology Collection
The Science and Technology Collection™ offers more than 800 leading full text journals plus indexes and abstracts for more than 1,700 other publications. Topics include a broad range of sciences such as aeronautics, astrophysics, biology, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, marine sciences, and materials science. Among the journals contained are Advances in Physics, American Scientist, Archaeoastronomy, Astronomy & Geophysics, Civil Engineering, Engineering Management Journal, International Journal of Computational Engineering Science, Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Journal of Architectural Engineering, Journal of Applied Microbiology, Journal of Mathematical Logic, Journal of Theoretical & Computational Chemistry, Molecular Physics, Plant Biotechnology Journal, Quarterly Review of Biology, Space Communications, and Spatial Vision.
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LIBRARIAN’S REFERENCE SHELF
Directory of Open Access Journals
The Directory of Open Access Journals provides both constant updates and free access to a compendium of international scholarly journals on a wide range of topics. Many are full-text, others provide indexing and abstracts. Topics include agriculture and food science, biology, chemistry, health science, languages and literature, mathematics, physics, engineering, the arts, business, environmental science, history, law, political science, philosophy, religion, and social science.
Information Science & Technology Abstracts
With coverage dating as far back as the mid 1960s, Information Science & Technology Abstracts™ is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science. Subject coverage includes classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, search engines, printed and electronic information sources, the information industry, scholarly communication, electronic publishing, and more. It provides indexing for more than 450 journals as well as conferences, research reports and 80 core information science and technology titles.
Serials Directory
The Serials Directory provides up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular serials. It contains nearly 212,000 U.S. and international titles, including newspapers; data from nearly 108,235 publishers worldwide, including e-mail and Internet addresses; and Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal Classifications for every entry.
TDNet Journal Locator
The TDNet Journal Locator offers a searchable list of ALL the journal titles available to TexShare users from all of the different database providers. This list includes available holdings as well as an indication of the availability of full-text. Users with an "authenticated IP-address" can take advantage of direct hotlinks from the search results page. Others can simply return to their main TexShare menu page and click on the specific database that contains their selected journal.
WorldCat
An online catalog of the 58 million bibliographic records from OCLC member libraries. A useful tool for finding materials in other libraries, it offers indexes of books, periodicals, audio-visual materials, newspaper, films, maps, musical scores and internet resources. Search by Library of Congress or Dewey Decimal classifications and limit searches by material types, material formats, and audiences. WorldCat covers 1000 BC to the present and millions of bibliographic records from around the world, updated daily.
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The TexShare Databases are supported in part by funds granted to the Texas State Library and Archives Commission by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, an independent Federal grant-making agency dedicated to creating and sustaining a nation of learners by helping libraries and museums serve their communities.
This page was written by Renata Caldwell in Spring 2005. This page was revised by Adrian Whatley in Spring 2006 and again by Lisa Charbonnet in Spring 2007.
INF 382S: Library Instruction and Information Literacy, taught by Dr. Loriene Roy
School of Information,
The University of Texas at Austin