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Library Spotlight: New Databases

 

Krannert Memorial Library has recently purchased three new databases. These three give us access to content that is very relevant both to academics and to everyday life. Also, in addition to traditional content, all three include multimedia content like streaming music and video, interactive maps, and photos. We hope you will check them out!

Naxos Music Library
Naxos Music Library is the world's largest online classical music library. It also includes jazz, world music, film music, nostalgia, and classic and contemporary rock music. It offers streaming access to more than 37,120 CDs with more than 530,800 tracks, as of 2009. On average, 500 new CDs are added to the library every month.
 
Users of this database can create and save their own playlists.

 

GREENR
GREENR stands for Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources. This database focuses on the physical, social, and economic aspects of a broad range of environmental issues such as energy systems, health care, agriculture, climate change, population, and economic development. Topic, organization, and country portals form research centers around the issues, providing authoritative analysis, case studies, academic journals, news, legislation, conference proceedings, primary source documents, statistics, and rich multimedia. Use Browse Issues and Topics, World Map, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database.

Global Issues in Context
This new database offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. This database helps locate information on broad issues such as war, genocide, terrorism, human rights, poverty, famine, globalization, world trade, nuclear proliferation, and global warming, as well as more specific events and topics in the news that are related to these broader issues, such as genocide in Darfur, product safety of Chinese imports, sectarian violence in Iraq, changing weather patterns across the globe, and disaster recovery in Indonesia and New Orleans. It also includes detailed information on nations to provide a foundation for cross-cultural studies and, International periodicals and news sources that bring additional insight and currency.