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Announcing Brill’s New Pauly

Cudahy Reference — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:25:04 +0000

LUC Libraries has added Brill’s New Pauly, the English edition of Der Neue Pauly, to its online reference collection. This encyclopedia of Greco-Roman antiquity and classical scholarship is a key resource for ancient history, philosophy, and culture. For assistance accessing or using New Pauly, please contact a reference librarian.

Resource of the Week: Subject Guides

tradniecki — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:48:14 +0000

Loyola Libraries has begun our Resource of the Week program!

Each week a different Library resource will be featured. Students and faculty are encouraged to stop by the reference desks at either the Information Commons or Lewis Library to pick up a handout on the resource and chat with a reference librarian to learn more about these valuable tools.

This week’s resource is our Subject Guides. These guides provide great information for subject specific research. Ask about them at your local reference desk!

World Factbook-Redesign

Cudahy LOCL — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:45:00 +0000

Locating hard to find information on countries just got easier with World Factbook’s newly redesigned Web site.

The world-renowned World Factbook Web site provides visitors with wide-ranging and hard-to-locate information about the background, geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 countries and other entities. Their new site will provide visitors with a more user-friendly experience and improved navigation. It also includes downloadable and printable photos for nearly 100 countries, a “Did You Know?” section that explains the impact of the Factbook around the world, a “What’s New” section that highlights recent significant updates and additions as well as a new feature that provides built-in world rankings for many of the Factbook information fields. To check out the new site go to:

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html

Resource Spotlight: Saskia Art Images

tfrank2 — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:21:00 +0000

The Saskia Art Images collection contains 30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture, including images from many important collections: the Prado, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Uffizi, and the Louvre as well as archaeological sites in Greece, Italy, Turkey and Egypt.

The images can be displayed and downloaded in high-resolution format. Additionally, the descriptive data about the images includes references to the occurrences of these images in 19 major art history texts, including Gardner’s Art Through the Ages, 12th edition; Understanding Art, 7th edition; Art and Ideas, 10th edition; Discovering Art History, 4th edition.

Access the Saskia Art Images collection from our Database by Titles list.