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New Database: Leadership Library on the Internet

The Libraries have subscribed to The Leadership Library® on the Internet. Updated daily, this is a unique personnel contact database of the institutional leadership of the United States. Integrating 14 Yellow Book directories, The Leadership Library® enables subscribers to reach 400,000 individuals at 40,000 leading U.S. government, business, professional, and nonprofit organizations.  More info.

New Issue: Read the Libraries' Magazine Online

The latest issue of Off the Shelf, the WU Libraries' semi-annual magazine for faculty and friends, is now available online. Check out our feature story on why taxpayer-funded research has remained out of the average taxpayer's reach--until now. Also featured: a treasure trove of 19th-century architectural photos goes online, William Blake gets a facelift, and Walt Whitman's little brother earns a place in library history.

New Library Website Design Now!

As announced a couple of days ago, the new library homepage and site design are now in place.  We'll be changing the headers and color scheme on our other services over the next few weeks.  Have comments?  Please use this form and choose 'Library Web site' from the drop-down list for the subject line of your message.  What do you think?

New Library Website Design Soon!

We're working hard on a major facelift for the Libraries' website (http://library.wustl.edu), making it more intuitive and bringing the major search functions together on the homepage.  We plan to release it later this week - stay tuned!  After the site itself, we'll put the new look-and-feel in place on all our services, such as the catalog, Find it, Get it!, etc.  These changes will be made over the next few weeks.

Database Change: PAIS International

PAIS International has been moved from FirstSearch to CSA Illumina platform, and we've added the Archive; the combined coverage is from 1915 to the present. You can choose to search just the current file, just the archive file, or the combined database. More info.

New Database: British Humanities Index

The Libraries have subscribed to British Humanities Index, which covers a wide range of arts and humanities subjects, from over 370 journals and weekly magazines published in the United Kingdom and other English speaking countries. More info.