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Selected Resources     Encyclopedias & Dictionaries   Dictionary of Old English Corpus   Complete record of surviving Old English except for some variant manuscripts of individual texts. Database details..   Encyclopaedia Britannica Online   Online version of the standard print encyclopedia. Database details..   Ethnologue An encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world's 6,912 known living languages.   Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America     Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online   Ten volume reference set covering music of the world's peoples. Database details.   Merriam-Webster Dictionary An online dictionary and thesaurus.   Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Traces the evolution of more than 600,000 words English language words over the last 1500 years. Database details..   Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture     Women's Studies Encyclopedia Over 700 signed articles by scholars in a wide range of disciplines. Database details..     Government Information   USA.gov U.S. government's official web portal and search engine. Consider using this resource when you are researching a current issue of national importance. The government publishes in all subjects and formats.     Reference Sources   African American Music Reference   Contains over 2,000 essays coveraging blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression. Database details.   Associations Unlimited Includes 460,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields. Database Details   Bartleby.com: Great Books Online Full text of over 300 classic works of reference, verse, fiction, and non-fiction.   Bibliography of American Literature       1770s-1930 40,000 records of the literary works of approximately 300 American writers from the period of the Revolution to 1930. Database details..   Classical Music Reference Library   Reference materials covering the entire history of Western classical music. Database details.   Gale Literary Index Find which Gale reference series contains analysis of a literary work or an author bio. Check Voyager catalog to see if the library owns the reference series and to find where it is located.   Gale Virtual Reference Library   Small collection of online reference books, including St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture and History of the American Cinema. Database details..   Greenwood Digital Collection Collection of electronic reference books. Database details.   Health and Wellness Resource Center       1980-current Information on health and medicine, medications, and wellness. Includes several medical reference sources Database details..   Literature Resource Center   Literature reference database complete with biographical, bibliographical, and critical content. Database details..   Oxford Music Online   Online version of Grove Music Online, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, The Oxford Companion to Music, and Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Limited to 3 simultaneous users for Grove Music Online section. Database details.   Oxford Reference Online: Complete Collection Some of Oxford's best known reference works covering of a broad range of subjects. Database details.   Play Index     1949-current Indexing of over 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present and published from 1949 to the present. Database details..   Short Story Index Index to short stories written in or translated into English that have appeared in collections and selected periodicals. Database details..     Tests & Measurements   Mental Measurements Yearbook   Provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Limited to 4 simultaneous users. Database details. Also in print: 1st Floor - Reference 371.26 B93 MMY Database covers vol 9 to present.   Tests in Print A comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. Includes test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s). Limited to 4 simultaneous users. Database details.. Websites     Internet Guides   Librarian's Internet Index Searchable and annotated subject directory of Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians. Topics include current events and issues, holidays and seasons, helpful tools for information users, human interest, and more. Over 20,000 entries, organized into 14 main topics and nearly 300 related topics. Page Maintained By: Kristen West