A Research Librarian is available to answer your questions:
In Person or by Phone: Ask to speak with a librarian in person at the Service Desk or call us at 812-941-2485. We’ll work with you to find the resources you need.
Behind the Service Desk is a small collection of materials including encyclopedias, dictionaries, collections of facts and statistics, directories, books of quotations, and much more. This is a good place to find a quick fact or a general overview of a subject. Because these resources should be available at all times, these books may not be checked out. The materials are arranged according to their Library of Congress call numbers on the reference shelves, as are the titles in the regular book collection.
An authoritative general reference database with contributions from Nobel laureates, historians, curators, professors and other notable experts. It includes the Encyclopedia Britannica plus numerous supplementary resources, including the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, select magazine and journal articles, thousands of photographs and illustrations, and links to additional websites reviewed by the Britannica editors.
A general online encyclopedia with over 25,000 records covering a variety of topics.
Provides more than 16,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of some of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
Note: The ability to cross-search Gale Literature Criticism, Gale Literature Resource Center, Gale Literature: Dictionary of Literary Biography, & Gale Literature: Something About The Author is available on the Gale Literature platform.
Designed to help students and professionals at all levels of learning achieve their educational and career-related goals. Includes practice tests for: academic, advanced placement, basic skills success, civil service, college preparation, cosmetology, EMS, ESL (Spanish) skills improvement courses, firefighter, GED, graduate school entrance (GRE), law enforcement, military, real estate, skills improvement courses, teacher certification, technical and career college, and US citizenship.
Note: Users must create a free account to fully access the resource which includes an interactive online database of practice tests and tutorial courses with scoring, complete answer explanations, and analysis of results.
The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean. It also offers the best in etymological analysis and in listing of variant spellings, and it shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
A collection of language and subject dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works published by Oxford University Press. All titles in the collection are cross-searchable; individual titles may be searched separately as well.
Language-learning courses for 24 different languages, with the Rosetta Stone full versions available for Chinese (Mandarin), Spanish, English, French, German, Italian, and Russian. Levels 1-3 are available for 15 other languages including Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, and Swedish.
ACCESS NOTE: Users must create their own username and password for access to Rosetta Stone.