Literature Resource Center is for everyone!

Whether you are a student, belong to book group, or just want to know more about a book or the author of a book you have just read, try out the Literature Resource Center, our Online Resource for October.

This database includes biographies of 130,000+ writers and full-text reviews and critical analyses of their works.

 

The Magill's Literary Annual is another literature online resource to visit for information on books written after 1976.  You may use both databases in the library or use your library card to search them remotely.  Try them out today!  SH

October's WFL Online Resource of the Month

When you want more information on any book, give our Online Resource of the Month for October a try. It's called Literature Resources from Gale. This service searches literature criticism, biographies, work and topic overviews, reviews, and full text of many literary works including novels, short stories, drama, and poetry. It includes some of the most important literary reference works available, including:

• Contemporary Authors
• Dictionary of Literary Biography
• Contemporary Literary Criticism

plus 850,000+ full text articles, critical essays and reviews from over 390 academic journals and literary magazines, 8500+ interviews and 6,000+ links to credible websites.

Whether you are a student, a member of a book group, or simply a literature lover, this resource has something for you!

(You will need your Minuteman Library Card number to sign in from home.) SH

DATABASES "SPRING"ING UP ALL OVER WELLESLEY FREE LIBRARY

Posters and bookmarks announcing new databases available for you to use 24/7 from our catalog page are "Spring"ing up all over Wellesley Free Library. We have already announced Mango and Global Road Warrior and are excited to tell you about the Literature Resource Center, Science Resource Center, and AtoZ Maps Online.

Literature Resource Center

• For researchers, students, and book club members

• up-to-date author biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews

• covers more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines

• includes poetry and short stories

• from all time periods and from around the world.

• information comes from highly regarded books such as the Gale Literary Criticism Series and Twayne Series, Web sites, periodical articles, compare and contrast pages, full-text author's works, and reading lists.

Check out this database for all your literary needs!

Science Resource Center
Science is a discipline that can always use specialized information for understanding concepts, finding facts and definitions, and locating that special experiment. Students and science buffs will find all of these through information from

• Reference books

• periodicals (including peer reviewed journals)

• authoritative web sites

• multimedia (pictures, audio, and video).

Pick your topic from any science area--astronomy, medicine, genetics, energy, machines, biology--and give it a try. Let the learning begin!

AtoZ Maps Online
Ever wonder how many types of maps are available? Try 60,000 available for you right now in this database!

• outline

• physical

• political

• thematic

• 211 World Maps

• 168 Continent Maps

• 2850 Country Maps

• 1846 State Maps.

• Volcano

• Weather

• NASA

• geologic

• climate

• earthquake

• current events

• Bible

• map games and puzzles

Yes, this is Map Heaven! You do not need a school assignment to have a blast with this unique database.--SH