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    Libraries and Library Science Guides     

    Text in BROWN indicates that the item is located in Hoover Library.

    Databases with Full-text Articles on Library Science

    • Academic Search Premier (Ebsco) Provided by the Maryland Digital Library.
      • Multidisciplinary database indexing over 3000 journals and magazines and full text for 1360 titles (i.e. only some articles are available full text).
      • 1990 to present, but dates vary widely with the journal.
    • Academic Universe (LexisNexis)
      • Full text of U.S. and international newspapers, magazines, newsletters and journals; wire service reports; transcripts of television & radio news broadcasts; reviews, entertainment & sports news; Chronicle of Higher Education and student newspapers; foreign language news; and more.
      • Reviews of art exhibitions from newspapers. Roughly from 1980s on.
        Note: This database provides text only, i.e. no images, charts, tables, etc.
    • Expanded Academic Index ASAP (InfoTrac)
      • Multidisciplinary database indexing about 2000 journals and magazines with about 1000 titles in full text (i.e. only some articles are available full text).
      • 1980 to present, but dates vary widely with the journal.
    • FindArticles.com
      • Search for articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals.
      • Note: Text only, i.e. no images, charts, tables, etc. Nor does it provide volume, issue, or page numbers.
    • Index Morganagus (Eric Lease Morgan, North Carolina State University)
      • Searches electronic journals in library and information science, some in full text.
    • JSTOR
      • Full text of 254 journals in 19 academic disciplines.
      • Consists of first issue of journal up to the most current 2 to 5 years, i.e. 1995 to 1999.

    Journals with Full-text Articles on Library Science

    • Journal of Academic Librarianship
      • Vol. 18 no. 6 (January 1993) to present.
      • Hoover Library carries vol. 1 (1975) to present.
    • Research Strategies
      • Vol. 15 no. 1 (1997) to present.
      • Hoover Library carries vol. 1 (1983) to present.
    • Online Serials (Internet Public Librarian)
      • Links to full-text libraries journals, magazines, etc. Cannot search for articles.

    Library-related Indexes with Citations

    • Library Literature 1921 to present
      • (Call number: Index 016.02 L697A)
    • ingenta
      • Search article summaries from over 20,000 publications.
      • Searching is free; viewing the article requires a fee.
    • Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information (Marian Dworaczek, U. of Saskatchewan, Canada)
      • Index to materials dealing with all aspects of electronic publishing.

    Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC)

    • About Dewey (OCLC)
      • Short introduction to Dewey.
    • Dewey Decimal Classification System
      • All 1000 DDC classes. Takes a little while to download.
    • Abridged Edition 13: Dewey Decimal Classification. Albany, N.Y.: Forest Press, 1997.
      • (Call number: 025.431 D519ab 1997)
    • Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Index. Edition 21. 4 vols. Albany, N.Y.: Forest Press, 1996.
      • (Call number: 025.431 D519)

    Library of Congress Classification

    Libraries

    Library Catalogs

    • Hollis Web Harvard University's main catalog.
    • Library of Congress Online Catalog
    • MELVYL Catalog
      • Catalog of the 9 University of California campuses plus the California State Library, California Academy of Sciences, California Historical Society, Center for Research Libraries, and the Graduate Theological Union.
    • Libdex: The Library Index
      • Worldwide directory of library homepages, web-based OPACs, Friends of the Library pages, and library e-commerce affiliate links.
    • United States Newspaper Program (National Endowment for the Humanities)
      • Is a cooperative national effort among the states and the federal government to locate, catalog, and preserve on microfilm newspapers published in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present.
      • Also has links to various state Newspaper Projects, some of which have their state union list of newspapers available. United States Newspaper Program National Union List is a database of newspaper bibliographic, location, and holdings information.
      • Note: The 3rd (1989) edition is the latest edition Hoover Library carries. In microfiche form. (Call number: R 071.3016 U58 1989)

    Listservs

    Library Statistics

    • ALA Library Fact Sheets
      • Includes statistics on number of libraries, budgets, etc.
    • Bowker Annual: Library and Book Trade Almanac. R.R. Bowker.
      • Annual publication. Latest edition in Reference; earlier ones in Circ. (Call number: R 020.5 B786)
    • Library Surveys (NCES)
      • Library Statistics Program includes Academic and Public Library Peer Comparison Tools.
      • All products include statistics on academic libraries, federal libraries and information centers, library cooperatives, public libraries, state library agencies, and school library media centers.

    Subject Headings

    • Library of Congress Subject Headings. Washington D.C.: Library of Congress.
      • Located in dictionary stand in the Reference area.
    • Sears List of Subject Headings. 16th ed. Ed. Joseph Miller. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1997.
      • (Call number: 025.49 S439 1997)

    Library Terms

    Library Vendors