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What's New

• Newly Acquired Books and Media at KML
  It's easy to find out what's new in our print and media collections, using the New Titles search button located at the top of the page when you go to the KML Catalog. You can search for a specific title or for all new titles recently added to the collections, with options ranging from "items cataloged since 2 days ago" through "items cataloged since 3 months ago."

• 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.
   
  Each portal page includes an overview, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database.

• 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.
   
  This database promotes understanding of today's important environmental issues that are shaping the future in the U.S. and abroad. Additionally, as green collar jobs grow, this resource supports students preparing for future careers in the industry.

• Naxos Music Library
  Naxos Music Library [NML] 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.
   
  The library offers the catalogs of more than 50 classical, jazz, and world music labels with more labels joining every month. Among the labels whose catalogs are included in the service are leading independent classical labels such as BIS, Chandos, CPO, Haenssler, Hungaroton, Marco Polo, Vanguard Classics, VOX, and of course Naxos. World music content is provided by ARC, Celestial Harmonies and others.
   
  NML also includes synopses of over 700 operas, a pronunciation guide for composer and artist names, and a glossary of musical terms. NML provides playing times of individual works or movements, detailed music notes, and opera libretti. The library can be searched by composer, work, and label; by keyword search and by a sophisticated advanced search engine with up to 10 combined search criteria. Student users of this database can create their own playlists.

• Oxford Databases
  In addition to Oxford Music Online, KML now has several additional Oxford databases, including Oxford Art Online, the Oxford English Dictionary Online, and a reference collection called Oxford Reference Online Premium.
  
• Oxford Art includes
  • a scholarly art encyclopedia covering all aspects of Western and non-Western visual art from prehistory to the present day
  • full text of The Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner (1996, 34 volumes) — the landmark reference work
  • Grove Art, with over 5,000 searchable and embedded art images, maps, and line drawings, plus over 40,000 editorially selected image links to museums and galleries around the world. In addition, Grove Art features biographical linking to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, linking partnerships with ARTstor and Art Resource, and a host of learning resources: MoMA/Grove lesson plans, timelines, and thematic guides.
  • Oxford Companion to Western Art
  • Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
  • Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
• The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the definitive historical dictionary of the English language, with over half a million words from the Middle Ages (1150) through the present. Entries include word forms and etymology, and include quotations that demonstrate usage. The online OED includes hundreds of new entries each year and is updated quarterly.
• Oxford Reference Online Premium is an outstanding collection of 198 language and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, including Oxford Companions, Dictionaries, and Encyclopedias, cross-searchable and covering a full array of subjects from Art to Zoology.

• New Database: Something About the Author
  Something About the Author Online provides first-time comprehensive online access to all volumes ever printed in Gale's acclaimed and long-standing Something About the Author series, which examines the lives and works of authors and illustrators for children and young adults and is the preeminent source on authors and literature for young people. Something About the Author Online includes both the main series and Something About the Author Autobiography Series, totaling more than 217 volumes, 12,000 entries, and nearly 17,000 images - all delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals.

• New Library Feature: Monthly "Spotlight"
  Krannert Memorial Library's webpage has a new feature: a monthly "spotlight" on a topic of interest, with links to resources. We're kicking off the Spotlights with links to materials pertaining to the history of African Americans, in honor of Black History Month. March's Spotlight will feature Women's History Month.

• "Chat" Reference Help Now Available!
  The Reference Librarians at KML are now available via online chat, accessed from the Ask a Librarian page. Chat service is available Monday - Friday from 8 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. And of course, you are always welcome to e-mail, give us a call, or drop by. Links, hours, and telephone numbers are all listed for your convenience on the Ask a Librarian page.

• New Database: Demographics Now
  Demographics Now is a comprehensive yet easy-to-use tool that provides highly sought-after demographic data which allows prospective entrepreneurs, long-time business owners, and students building marketing plans to collect and analyze demographic information including income, housing, race, age, education, consumer expenditures and more. Users can select prepared reports or generate custom reports that include graphs, summaries, comparisons, rankings, and maps that can be used for:
  • Business & Marketing Plans — fast and easy formatted reports available in seconds
  • Determining where you should locate your business
  • Understanding your customers better — How much do they earn? How much do they spend?
  • Analyzing new markets — should you expand to other areas?
  • Targeting direct mail and advertising programs — to the customers most likely to buy your product/service
  • Identifying where your competitors are located
  • Planning sales territory
  • Analyzing Lifestyle customer segmentation with categorization used by the professionals

• New Headphones
  The library has added 12 new sets of headphones that can be checked out for 2 hours at a time. Our older headphones have been "retired."