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New: Library Literature and Information Science Retrospective: 1905-1983

Library Literature and Information Science Retrospective: 1905-1983

Library Literature & Information Science Retrospective indexes 1,200
periodicals retrospectively with citations to over 500,000 articles
including book reviews. There are extensive annotations which provide
detailed information about the article contents. The indexing includes
Library Work (H.W. Wilson, 1905-1911), Library Journal (1912-1920), and
Library Literature (H.W. Wilson 1921-1983). The resource also provides
the full text of Wilson Library Bulletin (1914-1983) with PDF page
images. Analytic records provide chapter-level access by author and
subject to the contents of books, conference proceedings, and essay
collections. The coverage is international in scope and comprehensively
surveys library science publishing in Europe, Russia, China, India,
Australia, and Latin America.

The range of subjects is wide including automation, care & restoration
of books, cataloging, censorship, circulation procedures,
classification, copyright, education for librarianship, government aid,
indexing, information brokers, library associations & conferences,
library equipment & supplies, personnel administration, public
relations, publishing, rare books and reference services. (Source:
Vendor website)

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New: American Periodicals Series

American Periodicals Series

The ‘American Periodicals Series Online’ contains 1,100 primary-source journals published between 1741 and 1900. Titles range from Benjamin Franklin’s ‘General Magazine’ and America’s first scientific journal, ‘Medical Repository,’ to popular magazines such as ‘Vanity Fair’ and ‘Ladies Home Journal’; regional and niche publications; and groundbreaking journals like ‘The Dial,’ ‘Puck,’ and ‘McClure’s.’ Users can trace America’s transition from Old World colony to New World power or conduct in-depth research on revolution and independence; slavery, emancipation, reconstruction, and Jim Crow; the opening and closing of the frontier; the changing role of women; the short story as emerging genre; advances in medicine and technology; and trends in politics, science, and religion.