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October 21, 2008

American Indian Experience

Greenwood / American Mosaic.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
Ever-growing full-text database on the "histories and contemporary cultures of the indigenous peoples of the United States," covering over 150 volumes of reference content, plus hundreds of primary documents, and thousands of images.
Links will be maintained in several locations in our Web site, including here.

October 6, 2008

Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology

Oxford University Press / Oxford Reference Online.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
Second edition (2008) by Timothy Darvill contains 4,000 entries covering "the essential vocabulary for everyday archaeological work in the English language," including principles, theories, techniques, artefacts, materials, people, places, monuments, equipment, and descriptive terms. Focuses on Europe, the Old World, and the Americas.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.