CD-ROM Database

CD-ROM collection as of November 2004.

American Decades (1998) - a reference resource locating a wealth of  20th century information including more than 1,000 biographical entries of the most-studied people, 1,500 original overview and subject specific essays, a navigable timeline that features both world and national events, 200 primary documents including news articles, excerpts from literary works, and important legislation, 1,300 images and 35 minutes of audio and video clips and an extensive assortment of lists and tables for each year, including award winners, obituaries, wage and price information, and popular songs, film and literature.

American Journey (1999) a multi-disc series of fully indexed collection of primary source documents and pictures exploring America's   critical issues; the  Constitution and Supreme Court, the immigrant experience, women in America, the Asian American experience and the African-American experience

Biography and Genealogy Master Index - includes more than 10 million citations to biographical information of nearly 4 million individuals.  Provides name, date of birth and (death), and the names and dates of  biographical source publications that list the individual (See also Galenet)

Books in Print Plus, (2003+) -  bibliographic description of books and ordering information for more than 1.9 million currently print or declared out of print (from 1979 to date) and soon to be publish titles from some 50,000 publishers.

CD Sourcebook of American History - contains full text and graphics of 1000 historical documents -- the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Federalists Papers.

The Civil Rights Movement in the United States (2000) - an interactive encyclopedia on 500 topics related to the civil rights movement in the U.S.

Complete Home and Office Legal Guide - 500 legal forms including contracts, letters, wills, leases, selected Supreme Court cases and other significant legal decisions, and the text of NAFTA.

Current Biography (1940+) - biographical sketches of approximately 45 newsmakers, artists, politicians, business people, journalists, actors, authors, sports figures, and scientists from 1940 to present - full-text and indexed.

Encyclopedia Britannica CD (2002) - contains the entire text of the 32-volume encyclopedia, a multimedia disc with Searchable databases, 72,000 articles, 8500+ photos, illustrations and more, animations, video, and sound clips, 15,000 related interned links, 1.4 million hyperlinks; includes the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (10th ed.)

The Environmental Movement in the United States (2000) - provides compelling and authoritative articles on nearly 600 topics related to the environmental movement in the United States.

Landmark Documents in American History (1999) - a reference source that provides the basic documents in American history.

Marquis Who's Who on CD-ROM (2000) - includes more than 700,000 notable individuals - complete with key professional and personal details from current and past volumes (1985- present) of 18 biographical dictionaries - Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the West, Who's Who in the East, Who Was Who in America, Who's Who in American Education, Who's Who in American Nursing, Who's Who in Finance and Industry, Who's Who in Entertainment, Who's Who in the East, Who's Who in the World, Who's  Who in Advertising, Who's Who in American Law, Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who of Emerging  Leaders in America, Who's Who Among Human Services Professionals, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Who's Who in the Midwest, Who's Who in the South and Southwest and Who's Who in Religion

National Zip Code Directory for Windows (1999) - includes the zip codes of all the states and the territories.

New York Times (1991+) - full text of newspaper articles available.

Politics in America, the 106th Congress (2000) -- the CD version of the printed Politics in America

PowerfinderPhonedisc (2002) - a six disc business, residential phone directory; includes census and streets; searchable by: name or business name, address, city, state, ZIP code, phone number, distance, yellow page heading or SIC code.

ProQuest General Periodicals On Disc (1986+) - index and abstracts of more than one thousand  periodical titles,  and full text of more than four hundred periodicals, see also Proquest Direct

Rand McNally Street Finder (1998) - Includes the following features: Mobil travel guide information, your personal concierge, create fly/drive itineraries, global positioning system (GPS) and create a personal address book.

Streets USA (1998) - gives exact location of a place or geographic location -- street, county, city or state and can be printed.

Street Atlas (2001) - detailed maps of streets, towns, etc. of the entire United States.  Covers more than 25 million street segments and 1.1 million geographic and man-made features.

20^th Century American Social Issues: An Interactive Encyclopedia (1999) - provides compelling and authoritative articles on 850 topics related to the major social issues faced by the United States during the 20^th century.

Understanding Alcohol & Other Drugs (1999) - information about alcohol and other habit- forming drugs, its prevention and control.

World Book Encyclopedia (2002) - a multimedia encyclopedia