The Libraries are committed to building collections and services that are relevant to users and are as easy to use as possible. As a result, the Libraries collect materials in all formats (paper, microform, photographic, manuscript, etc.) and provide access to electronic products that are diverse and user friendly. The Libraries acquire these resources by purchase and donation.
Among the most important new or upgraded resources that the Libraries acquired during the year were the following:
Africa Folk Music Atlas. An interactive CD-ROM of African music.
The Big Move, 1998. A work of original art prints including one by Nancy Palmeri of the UTA art faculty.
Chemical Abstracts on CD-ROM. Chemistry database including information in Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry, Physical, Inorganic, Analytical, Macromolecular Chemistry, Applied Chemistry, and Chemical Engineering.
Compendex (Engineering Index). This index was upgraded to a web interface. Covers journals, technical reports, and hard-to-find conference proceedings.
Contemporary Architects and Architecture Monographs. Funds from the summer 1998 telefund campaign have been used to purchase books on contemporary architects, such as Frank Gehry, Richard Meier, Alvar Aalto, Luis Barragan, Richard Legoretta, and others, and issues in contemporary architecture.
Criminal Justice Abstracts. Contains comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations, and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines.
Dick Hyman’s Century of Jazz Piano. An interactive CD.
DISCovering Multicultural America. This is a reference source that offers information on the culture, history, and current status of America’s largest ethnic groups, including African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans.
EI Village. Includes global information for technical professionals such as engineers, researchers, and managers, including industry and research information, business and financial data, news and newspapers, and career and education information.
Exploring Ancient Cities. An interactive CD about ancient architecture.
Frank Lloyd Wright: Selected Houses. 8 vols. Includes houses designed by the noted architect.
Grove Dictionary of Art. This is a comprehensive art reference work covering all forms of the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic and decorative arts, and photography.
IDEAL. This is an online electronic library containing 174 Academic Press journals and selected other titles. Subjects covered include biomedical sciences, business, computer science, economics, engineering, law, life sciences, mathematics, physical and environmental sciences, psychology, and social sciences.
IEEE/IEE Electronic Library. Search and browse publications from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE). Contains all of the IEEE and IEE publications: journals, transactions, and magazines; conference and colloquia proceedings; and IEEE standards.
INSPEC. This database was upgraded to a web interface. Covers the world’s scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing, and information technology.
Insulae Americanae, Nempe Cuba . . . , ca. 1697. Historic map by Dutch cartographer Cornelis Danckerts.
Insulae Americanae in Oceano Septentrionali . . . , ca. 1680. Historic map by Dutch cartographer Nocolaes Visscher.
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Records, 1901-1931. Includes office files from the union.
Linguistics Abstracts Online. This index includes abstracts from most linguistics articles published from 1982 to the present.
NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) Working Papers. NBER researchers initially report their findings in scientific papers aimed at other professional economists in academic institutions, business, government, and the business media around the world.
Nursing Collection. Contains the full text of 15 leading journals in both general and specialized nursing fields.
Oral History Interviews with Significant Mexican Americans in Texas. Forty-one transcripts and 60 videotapes of oral history interviews with important Mexican American leaders conducted by Dr. Jose Angel Gutierrez.
[Pocket Globe], 1785. Three inch globe engraved by James Mynde.
ScienceDirect. This is a web database for scientific research that contains the full text of more than 1,000 Elsevier Science journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences.
Typus Orbis Universalis, 1550. Map prepared by noted cartographer Sebastian Munster.
Virtual Pose. This is an interactive CD about drawing.
Woodard, Don, Clippings Collection. This collection includes clippings of significant local, state, regional, and international news stories for the past two decades.
World News Connection. This online news service offers an extensive array of translated and English-language news and information. The material in WNC is provided to the National Technical Information Service by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service. The information is obtained from full text and summaries of newspaper articles, conference proceedings, television and radio broadcasts, periodicals, and non-classified technical reports.
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