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Q: Can I read Consumer Reports online? Full-text?

Written on: November 5th, 2009 in Q & A's

A: Yes!  All you need is a Delaware Library Card and PIN to read complete issues of Consumer Reports online.  It’s even searchable!

Click here and enter your library card number and PIN.  Select the date you want from the right to read that month’s issue.

Below are directions on how to search for other magazines and journals:

• Go to the Delaware Library Catalog

• Enter your library card number in the upper right where it says User ID

• Enter your PIN in the box below User ID

• Click Login for more features

• Select Online Magazines and Journals from the green bar

• Type in the title of the magazine or journal you are looking for and click search (in this case Consumer Reports)

• Consumer Reports comes up as the first hit.  Select MasterFILE Premier (the first tab under the title).  The date displayed shows that we have issues going back to 1991

Now, you are in the EBSCO database.  From here, you can read specific issues by clicking the dates to the right.  Or, you can select “search within this publication” and then when a new screen appears click search again and advanced search to search for articles and reviews within all issues of the magazine.

Although lots of our magazines and journals are full-text, not all of them are.

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October Searches

Written on: November 5th, 2009 in Blog Posts

Here are some of the most popular subject search terms used in the Delaware Library Catalog during October:

Meanwhile, over at Delaware Tech., returning students were interested in the following:

Top Ten lists

Written on: November 5th, 2009 in Blog Posts

Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin was recently voted Amazon.com’s best book of 2009- Here’s some more of Amazon’s top 10 titles:
Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Crazy for the Storm: a Memoir of Survival by Norman Ollstead
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Steig Larsson
Stitches by David Small (graphic novel)

Here are some selections from the Publishers Weekly top ten:

• Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey (Knopf), ” juicy, appalling, hilarious and moving anecdotes with verve, sensitivity and perfect timing.”
• Await Your Reply, by Dan Chaon (Ballantine) is a “gripping account of colliding fates..utterly unputdownable.”
• Big Machine by Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau) is “a blazing story and an astute commentary on race.”
• Stitches, by David Small (Norton)- “A graphic novel to bring us all back to comics..will pull you along panel by panel and tear your heart out.”
• Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford (Penguin Press) “a brilliant case for the intellectual satisfactions of working with one’s hands”