World Factbook-Redesign
Locating hard to find information on countries just got easier with World Factbook’s newly redesigned Web site. The world-renowned World Factbook Web site provides visitors with wide-ranging and hard-to-locate information about the background, geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 countries and other entities. Their new site will provide visitors […]
Chicago Defender Archival Materials
The Chicago Public Library recently unveiled a new archival collection that chronicles the history of the Chicago Defender. The collection includes early issues of the newspaper which are very difficult to locate and which are not included in the digital edition of the Chicago Defender sold by Proquest and accessible to Loyola student’s, faculty, and […]
Resource Spotlight: Saskia Art Images
The Saskia Art Images collection contains 30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture, including images from many important collections: the Prado, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Uffizi, and the Louvre as well as archaeological sites in Greece, Italy, Turkey and Egypt. The images can be displayed and downloaded in high-resolution format. Additionally, the descriptive data […]
Happening This Weekend: Printers Row Lit Fest
The Printers Row Lit Fest, formerly known as the Printers Row Book Fair, is the largest literary event in the Midwest. The free festival features hundreds of exhibitors (publishers, literary organizations, used & rare book dealers) as well as a full schedule of events including author readings, book signings, panel discussions, cooking demos, and activities […]
Be our friend on Goodreads!
Summer is upon us, which (hopefully) means that many of you will have time to catch up on your leisure reading. Goodreads.com is a great way to keep track of what you’ve read, write reviews, compile a reading list, and connect with like-minded bookworms. Loyola University Libraries has an account updated by staff members, and […]
New Online Resource: The Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times from ProQuest Historical Newspapers, a new addition to the Libraries’ collection of online resources, provides access to the paper from 1881 through the present. ProQuest Historical Newspapers gives users easy access to the full content of each paper starting from the very first issue. Users are able to page through issues […]