connecticut digital library
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Connecticut Digital Library. What is it?. Connecticut Digital Library. It’s free It’s on the Web It’s available 24 x 7 It’s accessible from home. Need News?. Access the full text of any article from: The Hartford Courant – 1992 to the present The New York Times – last 12 months - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Connecticut Digital Library
What is it?
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Connecticut Digital Library
It’s free
It’s on the Web
It’s available 24 x 7
It’s accessible from home
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Need News?
Access the full text of any article from: The Hartford Courant – 1992 to the present The New York Times – last 12 months The Times (London) – 1997 to the present Sunday Times (London) – 1997 to the present Washington Post – 1996 to the present Christian Science Monitor – 1996 to the present
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The Hartford Courant
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Need a Book?
Search over 300 library catalogs in CT simultaneously over the Web
Request the item you want Track the status of your request
Search any other library catalog In Connecticut In the world
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reQuest Statewide Library Catalog
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Need a Biography?
Choose from over 100,000 biographies Linked to full-text articles, book review
excerpts, images and much more From antiquity to the present
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Wilson Biographies Plus
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Need an article?
Search 3,100 magazine titles simultaneously 1980 to the present
Search hundreds of magazine titles appropriate for students at: Elementary schools Middle schools High schools Colleges
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Articles for Elementary Schools
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Articles for High Schools
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Articles for Adults
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Need Information in Spanish?
Choose articles from 50 popular Spanish-language and bilingual magazines
El Nuevo Herald (Miami, FL) Spanish-language newspaper
Search interface in English and Spanish
Presents titles in both Spanish and English
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Informe
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Need Business Information?
Accurate, current information on more than 300,000 companies
Company profiles, inc. parent/sibling relationships
Industry rankings
Products and brands
Company performance ratings
Industry statistics
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Need Business Information?
Investment reports
Current investment ratings
Pricing momentum and key ratio measures
Financial ratios
Coverage of major business events and trends from 1983 to present
And much more …
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Business and Company Resource Center
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Need Health Information?
Search nearly 400 health/medical journals 800 pamphlets 2,100 general interest publications Encyclopedias of medicine, childhood &
adolescence Alternative health module PDR Family Guide to Health and Nutrition And much more …
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Health and WellnessResource Center
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Try It!
www.iconn.org
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Why?
Provide equitable access to a substantial, core level of information resources for
every citizen - all ages every school - students and teachers; all grades every library – regardless of community size or
wealth
Provide access anytime and anywhere
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Dollars and Sense
It costs the state $2 million per year to provide these electronic information databases
It would cost libraries, schools and colleges a total of $22.8 million per year to purchase the same databases individually
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Demand is Spiraling
Users conducted a total of:
87,314 searches in July 99,178 searches in August (+ 13%) 310,635 searches in September (+ 213%) 573,548 searches in October (+ 85%)
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Brought to you by
Connecticut General Assembly
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At the recommendation of
Lieutenant Governor M. Jodi Rell
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Administered by
Connecticut State Library
in conjunction with
State Department of Higher Education
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For further information
Contact your local library Contact the Connecticut Digital Library
office at:
(888) 256-1222 (toll-free in CT)
[email protected] (Jane Emerson)
[email protected] (Bill Sullivan)
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Epilogue
Information is the currency of democracy.
-- Thomas Jefferson