The
book collection totals approximately 24,000 books. New titles are constantly
being added and are placed on display. Books are selected for quality and
relevancy to the curriculum. Student and faculty requests and recommendations
are always welcome.
Reference
materials form the foundation of the collection and are valuable sources of
concise, accurate information. Numerous print and electronic encyclopedias are
available. Online editions include Americana
Encyclopedia, Grolier’s Multimedia,
New Book of Knowledge, and The
New Book of Popular Science. All have remote access capability. The
reference area is recommended as the starting place for most research projects.
Print
subscriptions to115 magazine titles are available for browsing and research.
Five years of back issues are retained in the compact storage area. Twenty-one
titles with a few beginning in 1960 are stored on microfiche. American
Heritage and National Geographic
are archived from 1955. Online magazine databases including EBSCO,
SIRS Researcher and FirstSearch contain many full text (complete) articles. EBSCO,
an extensive magazine database with over 1,900 titles, and FirstSearch, a data
retrieval system for books and journal articles in 13 subject areas, are
provided by the state library.
SIRS
Researcher’s sources include 1,500 newspapers,
journals and government publications and cover all aspects of social issues. Newsbank
ScienceSource includes 300 “digested” articles including current
innovations, scientific biographies and information about diseases from Plexis
Encyclopedia of Medicine, Science and Technology. All are available
campus-side; most can be accessed from remote computers. Usernames and passwords
are available at the main desk of the library.
Article
Express is a free service from the New Hampshire State Library that provides
Saltmarsh Library with full text articles by fax as a supplement to EBSCO
and library holdings. Articles are usually received the day they are requested.
The
library subscribes to seven daily and four Sunday newspapers. The library
archives The Derry News for 2 years, The
Wall Street Journal for 6 weeks and The
Union Leader, The Boston Globe and The
Eagle Tribune for one month.
The
Boston Globe Online is updated Tuesday through Saturday and contains
full-text articles from 1985 to current. Three national newspapers including USA
Today and Los Angeles Times
are available in full text on EBSCO.
Biography
Resource Center is an extensive database of 300,000 biographies from 80
complete sets of reference materials.
Contemporary Authors and Encyclopedia
of World Biography are two major
components. The entries include portraits, magazine and newspaper articles and
selected web sites.
CQ
Researcher Online contains 44 issues of in-depth reports on a single
controversial topic. Each report provides an overview of the current situation,
pro/con, chronology and a look to the future.
Contemporary
Literary Criticism Select provides a wide range of biographical and critical
information on 500 authors and 266 retrospective authors. Numerous search
features and monthly updates are highlights of this outstanding database.
SIRS
Researcher focuses on social issues with full text articles from over 1,500
domestic and international newspapers, magazines and journals. The database also
includes excerpts from The World Almanac
Book of Facts, maps and a directory of publications.
SIRS
Government Reporter contains historic and current government documents such
as landmark decisions of the Supreme Court, information on the federal
departments and agencies.
·
American Decades focuses on the United States in the twentieth century including
1,000 biographies and 1,500 subject essays. A timeline for the national and the
world, 100 primary documents and 1,300 images plus audio and video clips are
available.
·
Scribners’ Writers Comprehensive Edition includes the complete contents from
13 Scribners’ Writers print sets with biographical and critical essays and
photographs.
·
Newsbank offers full-text articles from 500 regional, national and international
newspapers and newswires from 1988 to June 2000. Online newspapers provide
current news articles.
·
Grolier Multimedia
Encyclopedia is networked on five computers for students without Internet
access.
·
Choices assists students in selecting a career, determining the training needed
and creating a list of schools where training is offered.
Videos
for instructional use, recordings and a collection of student psychology
experiments are housed in the library. Also a special collection of books about
Robert Frost and a complete series of the Critic
from 1956 are available by request.
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