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2001

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West Virginia Libraries 2001 Vol.54 No.5&6, Dottie Thomas Oct 2001

West Virginia Libraries 2001 Vol.54 No.5&6, Dottie Thomas

West Virginia Libraries Newsletter

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Accunet/Ap Multimedia Archive, Larry Sheret Oct 2001

Accunet/Ap Multimedia Archive, Larry Sheret

Librarian Research

The Multimedia Archive is the most extensive source of photographs and sound-clips available online. Photos, sound-clips, news text, and graphics are stored in four separate databases searchable from a single Web page. The photo and sound archives are the most important components of the site since they contain files that reach back to the 1840s and 1940s, respectively. The photographic database contains 750,000 images and the audio database 500,000 audio clips. There are also 800,000 news text files that date from January 1997, and 13,760 graphics that date from January 1999. Working in conjunction with AccuWeather, the world’s largest corporate …


West Virginia Libraries 2001 Vol.54 No.4, Cheryl Harshman Aug 2001

West Virginia Libraries 2001 Vol.54 No.4, Cheryl Harshman

West Virginia Libraries Newsletter

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West Virginia Libraries 2001 Vol.54 No.2&3, Cheryl Harshman Apr 2001

West Virginia Libraries 2001 Vol.54 No.2&3, Cheryl Harshman

West Virginia Libraries Newsletter

No abstract provided.


E-Global Library, Larry Sheret Apr 2001

E-Global Library, Larry Sheret

Librarian Research

e-global library is an information broker that has pulled together excellent information resources, and packaged them in a way that makes them more affordable and readily available through a user-friendly delivery system that is fully tailorable to the needs of individual institutions and libraries. Just as a Wall Street mutual fund is able to give professionally managed stock market access to smaller investors at an affordable price, e-global library is an information broker that gives access to several quality online library services for a price which most educational facilities would be unable to match if they were to implement these …


West Virginia Libraries 2001 Vol.54 No.1, Cheryl Harshman, Ted Nesbitt Feb 2001

West Virginia Libraries 2001 Vol.54 No.1, Cheryl Harshman, Ted Nesbitt

West Virginia Libraries Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Reference Suite @ Facts.Com, Larry Sheret Jan 2001

Reference Suite @ Facts.Com, Larry Sheret

Librarian Research

Facts On File was founded in 1940 to serve the radio news business with the publication of the weekly Facts On File World News Digest, the complete database of which contains 100,000 articles that have been meticulously indexed and cross-linked to nearly 1,000,000 records from Facts On File annual indexes. The Web version of these two sources went online as FACTS.com in March 1999. Four modules that have been added are Today’s Science, Issues and Controversies, The World Almanac, and Funk and Wagnall’s New Encyclopedia. Together, these five modules make up the Reference Suite @ FACTS.com, which was launched in …