Archive for May 1, 2007

Database of the Month – LitFINDER

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Do you know the first line of a poem and need the rest of the text? Do you want to find a story about snow or puppies? Need to pick an essay, play or speech for a project? LitFINDER will enable you to find your answer. It can be accessed from the Homework Help-Literature section of the TeenSpace website.
This database contains over 100,000 full text entries and citations of many more. So, the chances are LitFINDER will contain the text you are looking for or direct you to a book that contains it. You can search by keyword, author name, pseudonym, birth and death years, title of work, publication date, genre, first line, last line, timeline, gender, religion and more. (Search Tip: The Advanced Search is easier to use than the Basic Search.) LitFINDER provides a glossary of poetry terms, brief explanations on the most-studied contemporary poems and stories, concise author biographies and illustrations. LitFINDER, in conjunction with the Syosset Public Library’s Literature Resource Center database which contains literary criticism (to be featured next month), provides a powerful tool for your English projects.
Ed Goldberg
Teen Services Librarian