Research Databases
Books and Literary Criticism
Books
in Print:
Find out what books, videos and audiobooks are in print and available
for purchase. Search by title, author or subject, or browse by
category. Both in-print and forthcoming items are indexed.
Fictionconnection:
Search for fiction and biographies by subject, character, genre,
time period. Look for books that are "like" the ones you love
- for the reasons you love them. Updated monthly with new titles,
and goes back to 1997, with some older coverage for popular authors
and series.
Gale
Literature Databases:
Includes Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary
Biography, and Contemporary Authors. Perfect for High School and
College level literary research.
Literature
Resource Center:
Includes biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses
of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale's
most-used literary databases in a single online service, the Literature
Resource Center covers more than 121,000 novelists, poets, essayists,
journalists, and other writers such as philosophers, filmmakers,
and anthropologies
NetLibrary:
A collection of Electronic books (books that can be viewed online
on a computer) and E-audiobooks. E-audiobooks are available for
download to your mp3 player or computer. NetLibrary books are
also searchable and accessible through the library catalog. You
can access your library's eContent 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Twentieth
Century Poetry:
Offers online access to the poetry of some of the greatest writers
of the twentieth century. It incorporates the works of the most
widely studied poets of the British Isles, and of the Americas.
In addition, many contemporary writers are also represented.
Worldcat:
A Catalog of Library Catalogs, it is the world's largest library
holdings database of books, journals, and other materials held
by thousands of libraries in the United States and other countries.
WORLDCAT is used to initiate interlibrary loan requests, to verify
citations, and to gather information for subsequent searching
in other sources.
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