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 […]
New Online Resource: The Shakespeare Collection.
The Shakespeare Collection from Gale, a new addition to the Libraries’ collection of online resources, brings together general reference data, full-text scholarly periodicals, reprinted criticism, primary source material, and full-text annotated works. Researchers have access to: The Arden fully-annotated scholarly editions of the complete works of Shakespeare, together with the introduction and appendices included in […]
New Online Resouce: Horn Book Guide Online
Published each spring and fall by Horn Book, Inc., the authoritative Horn Book Guide publishes short, critical reviews of virtually every hardcover trade book published in the United States for young people. This online resources offers more than 75,000 reviews published between 1989 and 2008! The Horn Book Guide Online is searchable by author, illustrator, […]