Proquest Statewide Newspaper Training
A two-hour lecture style workshop presented by a Proquest Training Specialist for regional member library staff. Training will cover the access and use of the 12 full-text Massachusetts newspapers available to all Massachusetts residents through their local libraries and home Internet connections. The trainer will also discuss how to understand and use the statistical usage reports your library receives.
Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2007 2-4PM Worcester Public Library (Saxe Room)
Gale Powersearch Infotrac Update / EBSCO’s Literary Reference Center Training
A two-hour lecture style workshop presented by Thomson Gale Training Specialist Stacey Knibloe for regional member library staff and a one-hour lecture style workshop presented by an EBSCO Training Specialist (three hour total workshop time).
Friday, December 14, 2007 9:30-12:30 PM Worcester Public Library (Saxe Room) (Gale and EBSCO)
To register e-mail Jackie Belisle at jbelisle@cmrls.org
Friday, September 14, 2007
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Literary Reference Center now available
Member libraries and their patrons now have access to EBSCO’s Literary Reference Center (LRC), provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
LRC provides a broad spectrum of full-text information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. It includes 27,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, 140,500 author biographies, 350 literary journals, 54,000 poems, 14,500 short stories, 8400 classic texts, 4000 author interviews and more.
In-library access to LRC is achieved with a single URL:
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,cookie,uid&profile=lrc
If you library is authenticated by static IP address(es), this link will bring you directly to the LRC main page. Otherwise, you will be prompted for credentials; once entered, a cookie will be set and subsequent access will be unprompted. Contact CMRLS if you have not received your username/password via email or USPS.
If your library already subscribes to another EBSCO database, you may now see an additional LRC icon when you access that site. If so, you may modify the above LRC URL to create a separate link to that (or any other) EBSCO database by substituting "profile=lrc" with another EBSCO "profile ID." For example, to bypass the list of databases and go directly to NoveList, use http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,cookie,uid&profile=novelist. For a complete list of EBSCO profile IDs, see http://support.ebscohost.com/knowledge_base/detail.php?id=863&t=h.
Home and office users accessing the databases from the the MBLC's database page will now see LRC listed under "Arts & Humanities." If you provide direct remote access links on your web site, the URL is http://mblc.state.ma.us/cgi-bin/remote.pl?db=EBSCO_LRC.
And as always, if you have and problems or questions regarding access to or use of any of the CMRLS/MBLC databases, feel free to contact me (rlevine@cmrls.org, x308) or Dodie Gaudet (dgaudet@cmrls.org, x307) any time.
LRC provides a broad spectrum of full-text information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. It includes 27,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, 140,500 author biographies, 350 literary journals, 54,000 poems, 14,500 short stories, 8400 classic texts, 4000 author interviews and more.
In-library access to LRC is achieved with a single URL:
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,cookie,uid&profile=lrc
If you library is authenticated by static IP address(es), this link will bring you directly to the LRC main page. Otherwise, you will be prompted for credentials; once entered, a cookie will be set and subsequent access will be unprompted. Contact CMRLS if you have not received your username/password via email or USPS.
If your library already subscribes to another EBSCO database, you may now see an additional LRC icon when you access that site. If so, you may modify the above LRC URL to create a separate link to that (or any other) EBSCO database by substituting "profile=lrc" with another EBSCO "profile ID." For example, to bypass the list of databases and go directly to NoveList, use http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,cookie,uid&profile=novelist. For a complete list of EBSCO profile IDs, see http://support.ebscohost.com/knowledge_base/detail.php?id=863&t=h.
Home and office users accessing the databases from the the MBLC's database page will now see LRC listed under "Arts & Humanities." If you provide direct remote access links on your web site, the URL is http://mblc.state.ma.us/cgi-bin/remote.pl?db=EBSCO_LRC.
And as always, if you have and problems or questions regarding access to or use of any of the CMRLS/MBLC databases, feel free to contact me (rlevine@cmrls.org, x308) or Dodie Gaudet (dgaudet@cmrls.org, x307) any time.
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