ARKLink Database Purchasing Committee: LSTA Databases

LSTA-Funded Databases: Traveler

"Traveler" is the LSTA (Library Services and Technology Act) project administered by the Arkansas State Library under the guidance of a Network Advisory Board. Network Advisory Board members who currently serve as the representatives for academic libraries are:

Ann Dixon, Director
Harding University
Brackett Library
Box 12267
Searcy AR 72149
501 279-4251; fax 279-4012
adixon@harding.edu
Term expires: 9/30/2005

Debbie Bailey
Arkansas State University-Mt. Home
Norma Wood Library
Mountain Home, AR 72653
870 508-6112; fax 508-6291
dbailey@asumh.edu
Term expires: 9/30/2006

Jeff Bailey
Arkansas State University
Dean B. Ellis Library
Jonesboro, AR 72467
870 972-3078; Fax 972-3199
jbailey@astate.edu
Term expires: 9/30/2006

Databases funded during FY 2004-2005 (October 1, 2004 - September 30, 2005) are:

EBSCOhost package, including: Academic Search Elite; Business Source Elite; ERIC; Health Source: Consumer Edition Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition; Legal Collection; MasterFILE Premier; MAS Ultra: School Edition; Middle Search Plus (via EBSCOhost and the Searchasaurus interface); Newspaper Source; Primary Search (via EBSCOhost and the Searchasaurus interface); Professional Development Collection; Regional Business News; TOPICsearch

Gale’s Discovering Collection, including: DISCovering® Authors; Biography; Science, US History ,World History , Multicultural America & EXPLORING Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Shakespeare & U·X·L® Biographies; U·X·L® Jr Discovering Authors, U·X·L® Jr. Worldmark Encyclopedia of Canadian Provinces, Nations, States, World Cultures, Multicultural; U·X·L® Science; Worldmark Encyclopedia of Nations, States, and Cultures

OCLC/FirstSearch Base Package, including: WorldCat ; OCLC ArticleFirst ; OCLC ContentsFirst ; OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online (bibliographic index) ; OCLC NetFirst ; OCLC PapersFirst ; OCLC ProceedingsFirst ; OCLC Union Lists ; ERIC ; GPO Monthly Catalog ; Medline ; World Almanacs

Grolier Combination, including: Encyclopedia Americana® and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia™ [Cost shared with the Arkansas Department of Education]

In addition, $20,000 paid for partial funding of Gale Health & Wellness/Health Reference Center Academic with individual participating libraries paying a reduced individual subscription.

Find out more on the Traveler web page or by contacting Sally Hawkes at the Arkansas State Library.

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