Lipscomb Library, Books, DVDs, Videos & Other

Books, DVDs, Videos & Other Materials

Online Catalog, LION (R-MWC & SBC)
Electronic Reference Books
Electronic Texts
WorldCat via FirstSearch
WorldCat on the WWW
Audio Books & Poetry
Special Collections in Lipscomb Library
Other Libraries
DVDs & Videos

Electronic Reference Books

Britannica Online
¤ encyclopaedia articles plus an annotated guide to the Internet

The Educator's Reference Desk
¤ resources and services for the education community

Electronic Reference Shelf
¤ compiled by Virginia Commmonwealth University

Facts on File, 1940-present.
¤ a news summary or digest (not articles from newspapers)

Gale Virtual Reference Library
¤ includes fifteen encyclopedias in the areas of the arts, business, environment, history, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, and social science

LexisNexis Statistical
¤ national and international statistics

Literature Resource Center
¤ includes criticism, biographies, bibliographies, Web sites, periodical articles & more

The Oxford English Dictionary

Electronic Texts

NetLibrary
¤ create an account, then search for books

ACLS Humanities E-Book
¤ sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies

Harper's Weekly
¤ full text from the Civil War Era and Reconstruction, 1857-1871

Making of America
¤ primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction

A Celebration of Women Writers, University of Pennsylvania
¤ online access to works by women and to resouces about women writers

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.
¤ early phase of a project sponsored by the Library of Congress

Doomsday Book Online, National Archives, United Kingdom
¤ a survey of England as it existed in 1086, which included a small part of what is now Wales, some of Cumbria, but excluded the present day Northumbria

Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia
¤ online archive of texts and images in the humanities

Internet Classics Archive, MIT

Online Medieval & Classical Library, University of California at Berkeley
¤ some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization

Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London, 1674-1834
¤ a fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court

Project Gutenberg
¤ over 13,000 titles, mostly older literary works

Shakespeare, Google
¤ searchable full-text

Yahoo's Directory of Electronic Text Collections