Week 9: Literary Reference Center
Posted on: May 27, 2010
Literary Reference Center includes popular as well as scholarly publications. Think widely – you might find a biography, critical work, interview or even online link to a work by a well-known journalist, songwriter, philosopher or scientist. Students will find helpful guidelines on literary research, writing research papers and critical reading. Also a good source of background materials for Book Group discussion leaders.
Other features include: a literary timeline; terms from the American Heritage Dictionary; 4th Edition; criticism and review articles
Besides the Magill’s summaries (quick overviews), I like the Browse authors and Browse works feature. You don’t need a name –for authors you can search under Country, Culture (good for hyphenated groups e.g. Korean-American), Genre, and Movement. For works you can search under Genre and Location.
Warning:
- In Browse mode, scroll down the page for links to related information .
- For list of publications, go to Advanced Search
Users outside SJPL libraries will need to sign in with barcode and pin number
Discovery exercises: go to Literary Reference Center from the A-Z listing of SJPL Articles and Databases page.
Watch 5 minute tutorial (example: John Steinbeck). Go back to main page.
- From Browse most studied authors, choose an author (or go to the author in focus: home page right hand side). Scroll down to see cross referenced features.
- Find authors who were part of the Counterculture movement.
- Find works written with California as a location.
Don’t forget to leave a comment below to register your participation, and then go bid on a prize!
180 Responses to "Week 9: Literary Reference Center"
May 27, 2010 at 10:21 am
Great database. I didn’t know we had it- so hidden.
Very useful!
May 27, 2010 at 10:38 am
I too had trouble getting to the LRC, it kept saying there was an error with the page. However, I watched the tutorial and it showed what this database can do.
I just wish I knew about this when I was back in middle and high school. This would have been very helpful for me. I think this a very helpful tool for students writing reports.
Some of the great things about this was that it was like cliff notes, bibliograpgy and the timeline history of when the story took place. It even has criticism on the book and reviews. I think this is a excellent source.
May 27, 2010 at 10:45 am
I also had trouble finding the tutorial. Nice database though. A lot of good information about the authors.
May 27, 2010 at 10:48 am
I saw week 9 tutorial session and it was very nice and useful.
Thanks
May 27, 2010 at 11:06 am
A very nice resource I try to point students to whenever possible. The depth of some of the “literary criticism” articles is occasionally lacking. There doesn’t seem to be a way to filter for “peer-reviewed” articles either, which is an additional restriction students sometimes bring to these assignments.
May 27, 2010 at 12:04 pm
This product has always been impressive and the tutorials are very useful. That’s something all customers should be shown so they can learn what they need/want to know at their own pace.
May 27, 2010 at 12:22 pm
I like this one. When I find a good author, I like to know more about his/her works and this database is great for that.
May 27, 2010 at 12:27 pm
This one was actually really simple. I loved it. When you searched for something it was all very organized and easy to fuigure out if it was what you were looking for. I the tutorial was very simple and after you watch it you should know what your doing. I loved it. I am all for learning more about authors that I have enjoyed in the past. I know a lot of childrens and parents at our branch will find this database helpful!
May 27, 2010 at 12:50 pm
I found this site useful, especially when we’re asked for authors of a certain ethnic background. I never did find the tutorial though. Once I figured out how the different tabs work, it was pretty simple to narrow down your search.
May 28, 2010 at 2:37 pm
I did find the tutorial (under the Help) menu on the actual site. I didn’t check the link from the blog. Seems odd to me that they don’t have the tutorial easier to find for first time users.
May 27, 2010 at 12:54 pm
I think this is a great resource! The interface is simple to use and it is intuitive. This would be a good resource for students looking for author information and also literary criticism about certain works. The “Browse Most Studied Author/Works” links makes it faster for users to find what they’re looking for.
May 27, 2010 at 1:07 pm
Love this database. Lots of helpful information. I had to use the help page to find the tutorial (don’t know what I missed), but the rest seems easy to navigate.
May 27, 2010 at 1:14 pm
I like this product, but I haven’t had many queries in which it proved the best resource to use…
May 27, 2010 at 2:46 pm
This one is easy to use. It was not at all hard to search by different criteria.
May 27, 2010 at 2:53 pm
I enjoyed this database. The Literary- Historical time line was great to look at and see what was going on in the world while people were writing some of the classics.
May 27, 2010 at 3:31 pm
This was a very interesting database. It is something that could prove to be useful to many people interested in literature of all kinds. The tabs were also very helpful for looking for specific subjects.
May 27, 2010 at 3:36 pm
Like everyone else, there was system error when I first loaded up the page, but I restarted my puter and it worked, kind of annoying. Regardless, this was a useful tool and fairly easy to use, when it worked of course.
May 27, 2010 at 3:38 pm
Similar to Gale’s Literature Resource Center, this database maybe very useful to high school and college students.
I love the fact that the search results are organized by categories using tabs on the top of the page.
May 27, 2010 at 3:51 pm
This is a very interesting database. I could sit and read it forever. I would hope that other would find it useful.
May 27, 2010 at 4:05 pm
Great fun! Looked up Aeschylus. I agree with Buller’s assessment of Prometheus Bound after seeing it at Berkeley “lack of movement intensifies the audience’s sense of Prometheus’s punishment,” and how!
May 27, 2010 at 4:15 pm
I viewed the tutorial , but the website was down. It seems like a lot of people are having that problem.
May 28, 2010 at 12:10 pm
BB
May 29, 2010 at 10:31 am
having worked and researched the Literary Reference Center, I feel how lucky we are to be able to provide this wonderful resource to our customers.
May 27, 2010 at 4:16 pm
This seems repeatative as the others.
But still good information to know.
May 27, 2010 at 4:19 pm
I found this site easy to use. A couple of Authors in the Counterculture movement were Edward Abbey and Robert Bly and a couple of books written in California were Virtual Light and City of Night
May 27, 2010 at 4:28 pm
This is a wonderful database! I will definitely refer this to patrons researching authors, and get some use out of it myself. I love the different search tabs like movement and culture.
May 27, 2010 at 4:55 pm
I love this database. It was easy to look around and I found it extremely informative. I believe I’ve used this, or a slightly similar database, for some of a dozen college analytical essays. The tutorial was a little hard to find, but once I clicked on links to where I thought it would be, I found it. However, I think it’s hidden enough where some people might not know it’s there. Overall, it’s a great database.
May 27, 2010 at 5:04 pm
I have enjoyed this database the most, so far!!! I completed all the discovery exercises and found it to be user-friendly; it was easy to conduct the searches a variety of different ways using tabs drop down menus. Enjoyed clicking on all the Jane Austin links and skimming some of her works, as am an Austinite! :0) Really like the advanced search tool that has a lot of different ways to find literature, including critical reviews as a limiter!!!Very happy to know it is one other way to read books on my computer! 🙂
May 28, 2010 at 9:32 am
This is very useful database. I like it. Thank you.
May 28, 2010 at 9:33 am
This will definitely come in handy for my next term paper. GREAT RESOURCE :)!!!
May 28, 2010 at 9:34 am
Great database. Very useful.. ready for week 10
May 28, 2010 at 9:34 am
Wow! This database is packed full of information!
May 28, 2010 at 9:34 am
This is an excellent database resource for high school and college students.
May 28, 2010 at 9:35 am
This is tremendous. I could spend all day browsing. Thank you Sara and Ebsco. Judith
May 28, 2010 at 9:36 am
This is a pretty sweet database. I remember reading John Steinbecks Of Mice and Men in school.
May 28, 2010 at 9:37 am
This is a fantastic resource, once I could have really used this database when I was taking English classes.
I did notice once glitch when searching for authors. When I clicked on a letter, I only saw results for say, the first 20 authors whose last name began with that letter. For the T’s, the page stopped at Ta. When I clicked on the only other next button, the page went straight to the Ss.
I didn’t see any other way to continue searching for authors whose last name begins with the same letter, except for typing it in the search box. Did I miss something?
May 28, 2010 at 11:37 am
There is a lot of good information here. It should be very useful to students.
May 28, 2010 at 11:55 am
Thompson Hunter has some pretty interesting books i’m going to checkout.
May 28, 2010 at 12:40 pm
Wow, I really enjoyed this database! Great source if you’re looking for more info on authors. I really like the brief summaries and analysis of some of the popular works displayed. love it!
May 28, 2010 at 12:59 pm
Literary Reference Center is comprehensive and easy to navigate. This great resource will come in handy when the patrons need ssistance with their in-depth literary questions.
May 28, 2010 at 1:17 pm
Ah, the new versus the old database: I prefer the visual interface of this database over that of Gale’s Literature Resource Center (I looked at SJSU’s version on my last visit to King Library). The Literary Reference Center page is very attractive and user-friendly. It is easy to get customers started searching this database. Of course, the database’s content is just as importance as its user interface. This database seems to have adequate content, but Gale’s Literature Resource Center may have an edge in content, as it can draw from the extensive Gale literary reference sets such as Contemporary Literary Criticism and Contemporary Authors. Both are fine databases that satisfy an educational need for customers. If only more customers knew about them.
May 28, 2010 at 1:20 pm
This is a very useful site! I will definitely suggest this to students!
I was suprised to see there weren’t a lot of works listed with California as the locale. Hunter S. Thompson (one of my favs) was part of the counterculture movement.
The tutorial helped quite a bit and since I had read some of the comments before starting the exercise, I just used the “Database Help” and typed in tutorial. It came up right away.
All in all a very good resource, and quite easy to use too!
May 28, 2010 at 1:34 pm
This was one of the easiest databases that we’ve gone through thus far. I even did a few searches that were not part of the exercise just to get better acquainted with it. I didn’t know of this database until this week, but I didn’t find it particulary difficult to find or navigate.
Sarah Thornton – RG
May 28, 2010 at 2:00 pm
Very interesting! This will be very helpful for students.
May 28, 2010 at 2:05 pm
Great resource for literary/author questions! It’s interesting to see they now have some full text works. I just tried to bring those up on our Info kiosks but couldn’t. 😦 (couldn’t bring up the database at all, actually, but that’s another issue…)
May 28, 2010 at 2:05 pm
Interesting database. I could spends lot’s of time reading about author backgrounds and inspirations. There’s even some Project Gutenberg titles available -you can read the whole book online in PDF.
June 4, 2010 at 2:22 pm
Yes, whole books online — and poems and short stories and essays.
A great online reference!
May 28, 2010 at 2:22 pm
Week 9 database was informative but initially was not easily accessible.
I clicked on the link provided in the description and it stated “error.” I clicked on a different link shown on the error page and got into the Literary Reference Center™ Plus area. I am not sure if this is the same as the link we were supposed to access but nevertheless, I did get access at least. I was able to find a list of content areas like literary critical essays and journal articles, but was unable to open the actual documents. There was another link entitled “Reference” where I saw more information for the “Reference Center” but again couldn’t get into the actual documents.
I think this CAN be useful if there is ONE main link that works and leads you to the Reference Center. Maybe it is just me who could not find and access the real link.
In essence, everything I saw looked like “advertisements” of what can be found in the Reference Center (I even saw a brochure option in pdf), but saw no actual weblinks provided to see the documents. Very strange and annoying.
I rather check out a book from the library to get a biography, than go through this database leading me to dead ends. =(
May 28, 2010 at 2:23 pm
A great resource for research papers. Also thought the citation helper would be helpful.
May 28, 2010 at 3:41 pm
I found the CA authors and the counterculture movement authors but combining the two has not gotten any results. I’ll have to keep trying… If someone else finds the combination please let me know. This is the best database for literary figures.
May 28, 2010 at 3:46 pm
Interesting resource for students to find more info. on different authors. The LRS tutorial video was helpful.
May 28, 2010 at 4:13 pm
Nice resource, I wish I had this when I went to school.
May 28, 2010 at 4:48 pm
I really liked this database. Never new it existed but happy i know now.
May 28, 2010 at 4:56 pm
This database would’ve been really helpful during my high school/college years.
May 28, 2010 at 5:46 pm
If you are looking for basic info on a subject or author this site would be well worth the time. I didn’t have time to really play
with the site and see what it could do, but it looks like it can
also complete any task that relates to a specific author or subject.
May 29, 2010 at 11:45 am
This was really interesting. I liked this one a lot. When you have a favorite author (or your customer’s) and you want more information … this is really invaluable.
May 29, 2010 at 12:48 pm
Really useful database. I wish I knew about this when I was in high school. Actually found out that Roald Dahl was born Sep. 13 like me…cool
May 29, 2010 at 12:57 pm
This is a great database. The tutorial is useful but hard to locate without the link provided to us database deelighters. I’m glad I took the time to search the site for it because I found the link for all sorts of ebsco training: http://support.ebsco.com/training/tutorials.php
I was surprised that some well known authors, such as Anne Lamott don’t have the cross referenced features that other authors do. The rest of the exercise was pretty easy and I will likely use the database in the near future with customers.
May 29, 2010 at 2:09 pm
It was hard to find the database. I’ll try to locate it again.
May 29, 2010 at 3:18 pm
This was very user friendly. Lots of great information on authors.
May 29, 2010 at 3:24 pm
Now this is an impressive database. And quite a vital reference tool for those doing book reports or involved in book clubs. I love the bios of the writers. I looked up Sherman Alexie’s bio (I knew him when I lived up in Seattle)and found the info to complete and correct, as well as valid references to articles and interviews. I was also impressed by the cross reference option and the discussion topics. I will definitely be recommending this to patrons in the future.
May 29, 2010 at 3:53 pm
Really like how you can search for authors by movement; many students are required to research a famous person based on time period!
May 29, 2010 at 4:18 pm
I had trouble trying to do the tutorial, but had no problems finding the resources I needed.
May 29, 2010 at 5:00 pm
This is an excellent resource. I discovered information about two authors that I like to read. However, I couldn’t get the tutorial to play.
June 1, 2010 at 8:48 am
The exercises for this week seemed well chosen to give us a chance to explore the data base. Thanks.
June 1, 2010 at 11:58 am
LRC covers basic literary research, very helpful for students. I haven’t tried to search the multicultural titles; will try later to find out the coverage for those titles.
June 1, 2010 at 12:24 pm
The inclusion of full-text content for poems, short stories, etc. is so useful – you can just print or email content to a customer. There’s also an automatic article translation feature – it’s machine translated so probably not the best but possibly adequate?
June 1, 2010 at 1:47 pm
Machine translation, depending on the engine being used, is generally about 95-98% accurate. When a particular site’s translation engine doesn’t seem to be working well, I just copy and paste the whole block of text into Google Translate and see what pops out. Usually it is pretty good.
June 1, 2010 at 12:52 pm
Yo, this database is mad for real.
Gonna be spreading the word because this is the real deal.
Gonna pop out the champagne to make a toast,
this Literary Reference Center is powered by EBSCOhost.
I will tell customers about this whenever I can,
this database has Critical Insights for Death of a Salesman!
You can filter your searches by genre, culture, and movement,
this is John aka Dizzle my nizzle and I will see you then.
Later homies
Stay in school
June 1, 2010 at 1:46 pm
Thank you SO MUCH for this lovely poem John. The creativity of our staff knows no bounds!
June 1, 2010 at 1:45 pm
Nice reference tool for finding up to date information on authors and their works.
June 1, 2010 at 2:15 pm
I found this very easy and very useful. Couldn’t watch the Tutorial because it looks like the Flash Player is outdated and I don’t think I’m authorized to do an update. Oh well! But I liked this resource very much.
June 2, 2010 at 10:53 am
If you ever have trouble viewing content online, or it looks like a plug-in is outdated, call the IT Help Desk and they can immediately do the update for you. You can reach them at 408-808-2400. I apologize on behalf of IT for things being outdated. I know they’re working on updates for all computers.
June 1, 2010 at 2:22 pm
I found a lot of information on this site, was having difficulty at first trying to get in, but eventually it worked. I will use this site again!
June 1, 2010 at 3:06 pm
Nancy Buckles – Edenvale Branch
Great database! Searching by genre and locale is very useful.
P.S. I also enjoyed the poem by John at Pearl Avenue! Very Creative.
June 1, 2010 at 3:45 pm
This one is my favorite database so far. I will definitely recommend this to students.
June 1, 2010 at 4:21 pm
I had a hard time finding the tutorial. I found the link through the training blog. The database is powerful. It contains a lot more than I had expected and it has more literary criticism than I thought. I think this could be used as a readers’ advisory tool–especially the question about locale or genre. Thanks for making us more aware about the breadth of this database!
June 2, 2010 at 10:55 am
The tutorial is actually linked in the blog post above (the word “tutorial” is a link).
June 1, 2010 at 4:36 pm
This week database was pretty cool!! .. easy to use with helpful tools. So far, nothing to complain or nag about… Will go back to this activity when I have time…
June 1, 2010 at 6:03 pm
This is a good one for when a bunch of students are all doing their term papers on some classic book all at once. I’ve had good success with it.
June 1, 2010 at 6:35 pm
I was surprised to see that this database was easy to navigate unlike some of the others. I was able to find some authors of the counterculture movement right away (ex Tom Wolfe, Ken Kesey, Edward Abbey) but it took me a while to find works written with California as a location. I was finally able to find that “The Call of the Wild ” by Jack London takes place here.
June 1, 2010 at 8:01 pm
The locale list was quite impressive!! And it was fun to see that there was an angry young man movement. something to tell me brother!
June 2, 2010 at 10:34 am
Overall, it’s a great database! It’s informative. I will definitely refer this to customers for example students taking English classes or for college students writing essays.
June 2, 2010 at 10:40 am
Great database and very easy to use. I thought the research guide had a lot to offer. A lot of information available.
June 2, 2010 at 11:27 am
Very helpful and easy to use. I found 15 authors who were part of the counterculture movement and 721 works for California.
June 2, 2010 at 12:10 pm
had trouble finding the tutorial. but ver resourseful!
June 2, 2010 at 2:03 pm
The tutorial was a big help in maneuvering through database. A good place to go to for information on authors and their works.
June 2, 2010 at 3:46 pm
It is very easy to use. I have no problem locating the tutorial video.
June 2, 2010 at 5:00 pm
the link didn’t work for me either. I had to go from the SJPL Databases Page. This Database is pretty easy to use. Not sure what John Steinbeck has to do with the tutorial, but I watched the tutorial. The last thing we had to do was easy, but the second one I couldn’t get it to work using the advanced search. I had to use counterculture as a normal search, then from that chose the counterculture subject. I noticed DE came up in the search after I did that but the advanced search has CD for cultural identity while DE doesn’t show. hmm. That needs fixed. This could be helpful.
June 2, 2010 at 5:26 pm
I was reviewing some information about Tom Clancy. Pretty interesting biography.
It’s simple and intuitive to use. I can imagine this being useful for students trying to find biographies on their favorite authors.
June 2, 2010 at 5:36 pm
Literary Reference Center is simple and easy to use. I found the authors for Counterculture movement. From Browse most studied authors, author in focus. Scroll down to see cross referenced features works well. I tried the interview feature for An Interview with poet Mark Wunderlich. I like the options for searches, very helpful and useful information.
June 2, 2010 at 5:37 pm
This is really cool. Couldnt watch the tutorial tho.
June 2, 2010 at 5:52 pm
I had a really hard time getting into the database. There was a server issue. I thought it was a really cool site other than that, because you could look for specifically what you were looking for as oposed to randomly finding an author. It takes a lot of the guess work out of things.
June 2, 2010 at 6:41 pm
This is great resource and simple to use. It’s quite helpful.
June 2, 2010 at 7:45 pm
One of my favorites since I can catch up on the background of authors and series!
Easy to navigate too.
June 3, 2010 at 10:12 am
Great resource! Easy to use and very handy to have.
June 3, 2010 at 10:56 am
This is an especially great resource for high school students who needs to write a book report. It was easy to navigate and the information given seems very useful.
June 3, 2010 at 11:29 am
The tutorial was actually hard for me to find. It is very easy to search for authors.
June 3, 2010 at 11:31 am
The database is very user friendly; easy to navigate. A lot of detail is given about the lives of authors…I found it very interesting.
June 3, 2010 at 12:13 pm
Nice database; informative and useful for literary research and english majors. This site was rather hard to find though. Could we please just get a direct link to these databases on the database delight weekly entry? It’s becoming frustrating trying to hunt down the link within the library articles and databases section.
June 3, 2010 at 12:34 pm
What a great resource for students, especially when they have to find authors that are of a particular race or culture. I really like the variety of information and resources provided. In exploring found some interesting authors and poets that i will be checking out.
June 3, 2010 at 12:37 pm
Prior to this I most likely would not have strayed far from searching by an author’s name or a specific name of a book; however, it was fun to try different searches in location, genre and movement.
June 3, 2010 at 12:56 pm
I saw week 9 tutorial session and it was very nice and useful.
June 3, 2010 at 1:54 pm
well I didn’t get to watch the 5 minutes tutorial video at all because we don’t have the flash player program installed here at all 
As for the Literary Reference Page, I’d say it’s wicked cool due to all of the ways that you can narrow your searches. However, it took mne roughly 30 minutes to figure out how to find works with California as the setting (?) until I saw the Advanced search and the LITERARY LOCALE one.
I’ve also browsed through one of teh most studied author — Vladimir Nabokov– and all of the words that were used to describe him in the abstract sort of thrown me off the page. It would be great if the page also include some sort of glossary/dictionary link for words such as “lepidopterist,”etc.
June 3, 2010 at 2:04 pm
This database should provide answers for most people. My search for significance of the albatross in rime of ancient Mariner probably would be adequate.
June 3, 2010 at 2:18 pm
I really enjoyed browsing through this web site, it has a lot of info that would be useful!
June 3, 2010 at 2:31 pm
One of my favorite weeks! I will gladly pass this along to my Book Club members and other customers.
June 3, 2010 at 2:48 pm
This is a great database with user friendly interface and comprehensive information. The users can search by author, work and most studied. The advanced search gives even more options. The students will benefit from many literary criticism articles when they research an author or the work.
June 3, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Great resource, I just wish I knew about it when I was in high school. Very useful!
June 3, 2010 at 3:19 pm
In the past I was always intimidated by the database. Thank you for this delight training, now I understand our resource is so amazing. It’s also very helpful for students.
I got into the tutorial very easily. Anything I’m not sure, or confused, I just use “help”. So the same with this lesson, the HELP (by the LANGUAGE box)will guide the customers to LRC introduction page. On the left side with WELCOME we can find the LRC tutorial option.
I think we should introduce to our customers the resourceful database in the Internet class for advanced learners, and students of all levels.
June 3, 2010 at 3:20 pm
i loved this database… i quickly searched the counterculture movement, just to get a hang of it (i usually dont view the tutorials just because i think it is easier just playing with the page).
i mostly used it for latin american authors and it just led me to great reads and great information! i will definitly use this for personal use.
great choice this week=)
June 3, 2010 at 3:22 pm
Great database. I will totally use it in in the future for school related topics.
June 3, 2010 at 3:38 pm
Great database! Useful and I loved browsing through the books. The video was interesting, however, I had a bit of trouble with the countercultures.
June 3, 2010 at 4:36 pm
This database will present a little of a challenge for our customers to use for it is not easy to use (not intuitive). Once you get the result of the article that contain the information you need, you are given the options like other EBSCO database to use the information. On this one, I miss the Gale database version of this literacy resource database.
June 3, 2010 at 4:37 pm
The site seems very plain but on the whole it seems rather useful for many reasons. Great for English Majors or literary professionals.
June 3, 2010 at 4:45 pm
It’s well-organized and was reasonably easy to find the items this post asked of us. However, it is slightly behind the times. But! Not so much so that I’d hesitate to recommend it.
June 3, 2010 at 4:50 pm
I’m glad I watched the tutorial. I discovered features I’d been unfamiliar with.
June 4, 2010 at 12:40 am
Good database with nice browsing features. I think sometimes we overlook the value of browsing in our rush to do a keyword search. The Discovery Exercises were very useful for learning more about this resource.
June 4, 2010 at 3:06 pm
The Literary Reference Center is a great database. It is easy to use and very user friendly.
June 4, 2010 at 3:31 pm
Nice database that I have used previously for school research papers. Will use it again.
June 5, 2010 at 11:07 am
I’m not sure what counter culture is but apparently Walt Disney may have had a hand in developing it: “From Walt to Woodstock: How Disney Created the Counterculture.”
June 5, 2010 at 1:16 pm
Great database. Took a trick to find, but definitely handy.
June 5, 2010 at 1:17 pm
Oh, and links that are double-checked to work would be great…
June 5, 2010 at 3:31 pm
Great database, and a excellent resource, hard to find would be the only complaint.
June 5, 2010 at 5:27 pm
WOW! this database is really cool! Looks like a great place for me to catch up on my classics or do English research papers 😀
June 7, 2010 at 11:51 am
Great Information, but had trouble accessing the page. I am sure I will be visiting this website again.
June 8, 2010 at 12:44 pm
I liked this site. It will be valuable to university students and high school honors english students.
I delayed visiting this database because I couldn’t view the tutorial, but the site itself was user-friendly and no problem without the tutorial.
June 8, 2010 at 6:46 pm
I hope I have more time to explore more about this database.
June 9, 2010 at 5:48 pm
Another great resource for those who really need it, but I don’t really see me needing this resource imo.
June 14, 2010 at 9:58 am
Easy to use and explain to customers – good for Children’s books authors, too! Particularly good for just basic research on an author – clear and concise.
June 14, 2010 at 11:54 am
I took the Literary Reference Center Tutorial, and was so sidetracked by on article listed in a screen shot, titled, “Why Jo Didn’t Marry Laurie.” Expecting some new insights that I didn’t have when I read Little Women when I was 10, I spent some time trying to find that article. STILL LOOKING for it.
Found an article about “People of the Book” which I am currently reading, but not about its Pulizter Prize winning author, Geraldine Brooks, nor about “March” for which she won it. Found Mel Brooks and Gwendolyn Brooks! STILL LOOKING.
June 15, 2010 at 2:20 pm
This is a great resource and super easy to use!
June 15, 2010 at 6:29 pm
This is a helpful tool in reader’s advisory. Glad to see children’s books and authors here too.
June 22, 2010 at 4:23 pm
Nice database. I like the way it’s set up, it is easy to get around and understand.
July 3, 2010 at 4:49 pm
This will be helpful whenever it’s book report time.
July 5, 2010 at 10:12 am
This is great. I’m looking forward to using this database often to find books of which I would not normally be aware .
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May 27, 2010 at 9:24 am
The tutorial was actually hard for me to find. I did like the Research Guide that gave a lot of good information about plagiarism. It is very easy to search for authors. I love that you can search by genre, country, movement, etc. This is helpful for students that don’t have an author in mind for a paper. The browse by works functions is also useful.