HON 100: Amoroso: Library Resources

Bibliographic records for more than 36 million items held at OCLC member libraries throughout the world. Includes all types of information resources. Updated daily.

Opposing Viewpoints in Context supports virtually any curricular need. Its informed, differing views present each side of an issue and help students develop critical thinking skills and draw their own conclusions. Exclusive Viewpoint pages bring balance and perspective to every controversy using targeted arguments from recognized subject-matter experts and top journalistic sources.

CQ Researcher provides in depth reports on current issues in the news each week from 1923 to present. Reports often contain lengthy discussion plus graphs, pro/con articles, a chronology, and links to organizations and other associated resources. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology.

Academic Search Complete is a large scholarly, multidisciplinary, full-text database, with more than 7,400 full-text periodicals, including more than 6,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 11,500 scholarly, popular, trade, and special interest serials, and a total of more than 12,000 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, and more. Updated daily.

ProQuest Global Newsstream (formerly ProQuest Newsstand) provides full text of more than 500 U.S. and international news sources. Iit inncludes The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news sources and news wires. Years of coverage vary by title. Maine papers included: Bangor Daily News (1992+), Portland Press Herald (1995+), and selected business coverage from Maine Times(1994-2002) and Central Maine Morning Sentinel (1993-1997).

Index to the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines, including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Coverage includes references and abstracts to over 1,300 journals in more than 20 languages, and to book chapters and books in the English language. The database includes information from empirical studies, case studies, surveys, bibliographies, literature reviews, discussion articles, conference reports and dissertations. Updated weekly

ProQuest's Sociology Collection indexes the literature of sociology and related disciplines, including anthropology, criminology, demography, education, gerontology, mental health, minority studies, political science, public health, social psychology, social work, urban studies, welfare programs, and women's studies. Content types covered include journals, books, conference papers, and doctoral dissertations. Sociology Collection incorporates the indexing from Sociological Abstracts, Social Services Abstracts, Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA), and Sociology Database into a single resource; each may also be searched separately. Sociology Collection includes full text articles from approximately 500 journals; it links to many more full text journals in other databases and journal collections, depending in part on each UMS library's subscriptions.

This collection preserves the history of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer + communities in Maine by collecting material produced by organizations and individuals. The archives of groups such as EqualityMaine, ACTUP, Maine Won’t Discriminate, Maine Speak Out Project, Equal Protection Portland, and South Portland Citizens for Justice document the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement in Maine. The collection also has the papers of such leaders as Steve Bull, Diane Elze, Stan Fortuna, Peter Garrity, Susan Henderson, Dale McCormick, Betsy Parsons, Peter Prizer, Lois Reckitt, Howard Solomn, Jean Vermette, and Barb Wood. There are records of a variety of social-cultural-service groups such as Northern Lambda Norde, GAYLA, GLSEN, and Gay Men’s Chorus. The LGBTQ+ collection includes a book collection, including 39 newsletters and newspapers published by queer community groups across Maine from 1970s-2000s, two oral history collections and recordings of public programs.

The majority of the collections are paper based, including manuscripts, books, magazines, posters, and photographs; however, there is a significant collection of artifacts. Both Gerald E. Talbot Collection and Lee Forest Collection contain objects from 19th and 20th-century popular culture, such as political and social buttons, cookie jars, and figurines, many of which depict negative stereotypes of African Americans. There is a collection of oral histories about life in Portland and Lewiston-Auburn created ca. 2000. One of the richest resources is the photographs in the Talbot Collection, which document African Americans in Maine in the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection also contains recordings of public programs.

This collection preserves the history of the Jewish communities in Maine by collecting material produced or collected by organizations and individuals. The collection includes material from youth groups, such as Macabee Club, a Jewish high school group in Portland, and community organizations such as the Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine and the National Council of Jewish Women, Southern Maine Chapter. It includes the papers of community leaders such as Joel Abromson, Linda Abromson, Rosalyne Bernstein, Sumner Bernstein, Merle Nelson, and Rabbi Harry Sky. The collection also contains recordings of public programs.