July 24, 2004

Education book reviews

Education Full Text includes book reviews. You can limit results by Document Type (book reviews). ERIC generally doesn't have book reviews.

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Chronicle of Higher Education

To get to the online Chronicle:

1. LexisNexis
2. Sources,
or
1. LexisNexis
2. News
3. Select News Category - University News
4. Select a News Source - Chronicle.....

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July 23, 2004

Book reviews in other languages

For book reviews in other languages:

IBR
L'Annee Philologique
PCI

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Advertisements

The AdAccess site concentrates on ads in specific areas, but within those areas offers around 6000 total ads (thumbnails that can be expanded to larger size).

It presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II.

You can also search Google by: "adaccess" to get to it.

Keywords: ads, advertising

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July 21, 2004

Subject Heading for ESL

Often foreign-language speaking patrons are looking for texbooks on learning English, specifically for their language. Here are some subject headings; there are others:
English Language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers
English language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers -- African

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List of newspapers in annex

Reminder note that we now have a separate blue notebook, "Annex Newspapers by Title," shelved with the previous blue "Newspaper" notebooks in the Reference Desk collection.


Van Houlson did a survey of newspapers housed in the Annex. Besides being more up to date than the information in our existing blue notebooks, this one (a) is arranged by title, rather than geographic location and (b) includes many notes on condition of the paper in our copies, and on availability of reprint editions or microform if we want to explore replacing our copies. It's also a lot easier to read (clearly typeface) than the old "copy of copy of cards" typeface in the other notebooks.

Note that this notebook covers newspapers in the annex only, wheras the previous set of blue notebooks covers (in theory) all newspapers in our collection, those in the Newspaper Room as well as those in the Annex.

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