I sent the message below yesterday asking about virtual libraries
provided by states to their citizens. Thanks to Charlene Cunniffe,
Carole Levitt, Irene Wong, Linda Mellick, Emily Urban, Diana Gleason and
Elliott Blevins I have found out that Connecticut, Hawaii, and Tennessee
do have versions of state-wide virtual libraries, California and
Missouri do not, and that Oregon is funding databases through local
libraries..
I still need to find out about Arizona, Arkansas, Iowa, Louisiana,
Montana, New Jersey, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington,
and West Virginia. If you are in one of these states, could you tell me
if you have a state virtual library or not, and, if so, the URL for the
library?
When this is done I will post a list of all the virtual libraries.
Thanks again with your help on this project.
Mary
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: State Virtual Libraries
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 17:06:46 -0500
From: Mary Persyn <Mary.Persyn@valpo.edu>
To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu
In Indiana state government has funded access for all the residents of
the state to a collection of subscription databases, mostly from EBSCO.
We call the service INSPIRE. http://www.inspire.net
For a project I'm working on, I'm trying to find out what other states
have similar vitual library access. It could be IP authenticated,
through your local library, barcode authenticated, whatever. I don't
know how up-to-date the list on INSPIRE is, so I'm asking you for help.
According to a list on the INSPIRE website, the following states have
INSPIRE-like products: Alabama, Alaska, Delaware, Florida, Georgia,
Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland,
Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New
Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio,
Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia,
Wisconsin, Wyoming. That makes 32 states. Colorado has the Colorado
Virtual Library, but it does not seem to have access to subscription
databases.
I'd appreciate it if your state is not listed above and you have an
equivalent product, that you'd let me know the URL for the site. Or for
that matter, if you could confirm that your state does NOT have an
equivalent site.
Thanks for taking the time to respond to me privately. If there is
interest, I will post my final list.
Mary
-- Mary G. Persyn 219-465-7830 Associate Dean for Library Services School of Law Library Valparaiso University 656 S. Greenwich St. Valparaiso, IN 46383 Mary.Persyn@valpo.edu Fax: 219-465-7917-- Mary G. Persyn 219-465-7830 Associate Dean for Library Services School of Law Library Valparaiso University 656 S. Greenwich St. Valparaiso, IN 46383 Mary.Persyn@valpo.edu Fax: 219-465-7917
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