The Milwaukee Lutheran High School Library subscribes to the H.W. WilsonWeb Site. This site offers three databases that are accessable to all Milwaukee Lutheran High School students. The databases are described below.
"An icon in the library community for 110 years, H.W. Wilson is dedicated to providing the highest-quality web and print resources in the world. H.W. Wilson products are familiar to generations of library users as standard tools in college, public, school, and professional libraries worldwide."
CURRENT BIOGRAPHY ILLUSTRATED
Current Biography Illustrated contains more than 15,000 full text biographies and more than 9,400 obituaries, with photographs, from all of the volumes of Current Biography Yearbook, from 1940 to the present.
The biographies are searchable by name, profession, title, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, titles of works, date of birth, date of death, keyword, and presence of images.
CURRENT ISSUES: REFERENCE SHELF PLUS
Current Issues: Reference Shelf Plus is a professionally created database that covers a wide variety of current issues relevant in today's world, including social, scientific, health, political, and global issues. The visual, infographic interface provides for a selection of topics, or researchers can choose from an alphabetical topic list. Topics are selected from key publications to suit the needs of school and university researchers, reflecting timely issues and controversies.
Researchers may easily expand their search results by selecting pre-determined search parameters that will locate additional appropriate articles within WilsonWeb, offering other relevant facts and opinions, with feature articles, editorials, and scholarly papers. A targeted Web search will also highlight authoritative Web sites that help researchers to explore topics in greater depth.
READERS' GUIDE FULL TEXT, SELECT EDITION
SUBJECTS COVERED
Aeronautics, African-Americans, Aging, Astronomy, Automobiles, Biography, Business, Canada, Children, Computers, Consumer Education, Current Events, Education, Environment, Fashion, Film, Fine Arts, Food, Foreign Affairs, Health, History, Hobbies, Home, Journalism, Leisure Activities, Medicine, Music, News, Nutrition, Photography, Politics, Religion, Science, Sports, Television
Readers' Guide Full Text, Select Edition is a 100% full-text database containing comphrehensive indexing, abstracting, and a full text of the most popular general-interest periodical published in the United States and Canada.
The abstracts average 125 words in length. Two types of abstracts are included. Informative abstracts convey the content, scope, and complexity of the source article, and are the predominant form used. Indicative abstracts describe the subject of the source article and are reserved for how-to articles, humorous essays, personal accounts, and recipes.
Full-text coverage begins in January 1994 for most titles.