Database Spotlight: CREDO Reference

When you need quality, factual resources appropriate for a college assignment, try CREDO Reference.

CREDO Reference includes millions of entries from over 775 well-regarded “real” reference books from some of the world’s best publishers. CREDO is integrated with millions of cross-references and contains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy, science to Shakespeare and law to literature.

Find CREDO Reference in the list of GRCC Databases.  Individual CREDO titles are also cataloged into RaiderSearch Catalog so you can connect to “the good stuff” in several ways. Many faculty are dropping permalinks to CREDO titles into Blackboard too.

 

The Three Little Pigs meet Loki on Mt. Olympus

By Janelle Yahne
Library Circulation Associate

With the Grand River Winds Community Ensemble having a mythology based performance tonight at St. Cecilia Music Center, it may be a great time to introduce the collection of mythology materials found in the library and online. Robert Graves, Joseph Campbell, and Edith Hamilton are all excellent writers on mythology with numerous books found in our library.

In addition, check out the books below on fables, fairy tales, and myths to find your new favorite. Enjoy!

• Aesop’s Fables [electronic resource] by Aesop
  Here is a collection of short fables to teach children morality and are still used today.
• Brewer’s dictionary of Irish phrase & fable by Sean McMahon and Jo O’Donoghue; foreword by Maeve Binchy
  Get to know the stories and language of Ireland in this book found in the Reference Area. The collection can also be searched through in Credo Reference.
• Bulfinch’s Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch
  Used as an instructional guide to mythology, this book is actually an anthology of three books separately published.
• The complete fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm [electronic resource] translated and with an introduction by Jack Zipes; illustrations by John B. Gruelle
  The Brothers Grimm have influenced numerous authors and moviemakers. More on the Brothers Grimm at the library can be found here and here.
• Handbook of Inca mythology by Paul R. Steele, with the assistance of Catherine J. Allen
  Some of the music the Ensemble will be performing is based upon Machu Picchu, so this will be an excellent resource to understand the background of the lost city.
• The Library of Greek Mythology by Apollodorus, translated by Robin Hard
  This is not an introduction to Greek Mythology, but a primary source of Greek Mythology that has been referenced by numerous writers, including Robert Graves.
• Literature and film as modern mythology [electronic resource] by William K. Ferrell
  This book analyzes a few movies, like The Shawshank Redemption and Field of Dreams that used myth to tell an amazing story.
• The Oxford companion to world mythology by David Leeming
  This is a book broken down into an online resource found in Oxford Reference. The entries include hyperlinks to the details of each article allowing the reader to create comparisons between the myths.

Library Journal’s top rated databases

By Marcia Lee
Serials Specialist

In recent months, a group of choice librarians and Library Journal reviewers were selected to evaluate databases which exist today for library use. In the end, the finalists were placed in specific categories, highlighting numerous resources of which several can be found right here at your GRCC Library. Below are the databases that made the “Top Database List” in their respective categories and they are available for access right now (requires RaiderLogin off campus):

Best Overall
Credo Reference

Most Ambitious in Scope or Content
Gale Virtual Library
Runner-up: Ebscohost eBooks (Formally NetLibrary.)

Most Elegant Runner-up: Oxford Art Online
Best Original Content Runner-up: CQ Researcher
Patron’s Favorites Runners-up: JSTOR and Naxos Music Library

To view a full list of the databases we offer alphabetically, click here. (We also offer the option of searching for databases by subject area.) We do our best to provide you with the most up-to-date & quality resources we possibly can, so although many of our databases did not “make the cut,” don’t doubt for a second that they aren’t just as useful for your research. Check them out today! 🙂

To view the rest of the finalists & runner-ups, click here.

Permanent Links from Library Databases into Blackboard

Want to link quality periodical articles, e-books and streaming media into your Blackboard? View the March 2011 updated illustrated instructions to learn how to create permanent links from over 30 library resources.  The March 2011 version includes linking instructions for CREDO Reference e-Books and reference entries and Books@Ovid e-Books.  The document is attached. Future updates will be stored in the Library’s Blackboard Information Literacy Community – “For Faculty” folder.