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Libraries Have New Custom Toolbar

Friday, January 25th, 2008

The Libraries have created a customized toolbar to help speed up your library research. The toolbar is an add-on for your Firefox or IE browser. It has some of the basic library functions built-in to it including quick searches books and journal articles, a link to ILLiad for ILL requests, links to Reserves, […]

Libraries Provide Trial Access to Faculty of 1000 Biology

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

College of Wooster faculty and students have trial access to Faculty of 1000 Biology (http://www.f1000biology.com) until February 7, 2008. This database is “a revolutionary online research service that comprehensively highlights and reviews the most interesting papers published in all the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of over 2400 selected leading researchers.” The system allows […]

National Intelligence Estimate on Iran

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

The recently released National Intelligence Estimate Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities is now available on the web site of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

New Urban Studies Database

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

The Libraries now are able to provide access to Urban Studies Abstracts as an online database.  We previously have had this resource available as a print index.

OhioLINK Electronic Reference Books Have Moved

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

The OhioLINK Electronic Reference Books collection from ABC-CLIO Publishers has moved.  It is now part of the OhioLINK Electronic Book Center.  You can still access it as a collection by performing an advanced search and selecting the Reference subject area.

New Source for Two History Databases

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

Two history databases have shifted from the OhioLINK Osearch interface the the EBSCOhost interface. America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts are now available as EBSCOhost databases.

New Display in Special Collections

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

“Recipes, Household Hints, and Revelations: An Evolution of Women’s Magazines” is currently on display in Special Collections, The College of Wooster Libraries. This exhibit highlights British and American women’s magazines from the mid-19th century to the present and demonstrates the way the popular press has encouraged middle-class white women to redefine themselves to meet the […]

Iraq War Update

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

General Patraeus and Ambassador Crocker have updated Congress on the progress of the “Surge” strategy in Iraq.  You can find Gen. Patraeus’ prepared statement on the House web site.  Additionally you can find the charts that accompany his testimony on the Defene Dept. site.  You can also access The Report of the Independent Commission on […]

New Pick-up Location for CONSORT, OhioLINK, and ILL Materials

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

The Libraries have moved ALL HOLDS to the Gault Reserves Desk in the main library. Now everyone can pick up their Andrews/Gault Library PRINT RESERVES, CONSORT HOLDS, OhioLINK HOLDS, and ILLiad Interlibrary Loan HOLDS (replaces WebZap) all at the same place.
Faculty dropping off their COURSE RESERVE items are asked to continue to drop them off […]

New eBook Collection

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

The College of Wooster Libraries is subscribing to a collection of ca. 30,000 academic titles through ebrary. The titles in this collection are available to multiple simultaneous users and do not require any kind of ‘checkout’ process. The titles are fully cataloged in CONSORT: to see a full list of titles available, search […]


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