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The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a source of career information, designed to provide assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. The Handbook describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations. Coverage: Current. Format: Encyclopedias, Reference Subject(s): Bus Ref & Directories, Careers

Systematically collated data on a great number of key aspects of the health care systems in the 30 OECD Member countries within their general demographic, economic, and social contexts. Coverage: 1960-. Format: Statistics & Data Subject(s): Health & Exercise/Medicine, Economics & Statistics

Downloadable audio books, provided by NC LIVE. Titles are also linked individually from the ZSR Library Catalog. Note: Requires installation of the OneClickDigital Media Manager software (free download). This software is a Beta version and does not currently work on Mac computers; the publisher is still developing the Mac version. Coverage: varies. Format: Books, E-books Subject(s): Multi Subject Databases, A & H - General, Business - General, Soc Sci - General

Index of over 1.6 million freely-available electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) from over 800 colleges, universities, and research institutions. Coverage: 1964-. Format: Books, E-books Subject(s): Dissertations, Multi Subject Databases

Covers art and culture from prehistory to the 1990s. Its multicultural approach offers detailed analyses of civilizations from Asia, Africa, the Americas, Europe, and the Pacific. Provides a guide to the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, drawing, and printmaking, as well as the decorative arts. Format: Encyclopedias, Reference Subject(s): Art History, Encyclopedias

Biographies of deceased people who were British or who impacted the British Isles, including Ireland and colonial America. Coverage: 4th Cent. B.C.E. - 2000. Format: Encyclopedias, Reference Subject(s): Biographies

Corresponds to the 2nd (1989) edition of the printed OED. The online version will be updated quarterly with new and revised definitions. Includes extensive coverage of word etymologies. This version is also searchable by the date that a word entered the English language. Coverage: 1989 Edition, with updates. Format: Encyclopedias, Reference Subject(s): Dictionaries, Literary Criticism/Ref, A & H - General

Online access to the Oxford Handbooks series in Philosophy. Each handbook takes an aspect of its discipline, explains the key issues, the classic and contemporary debates on those issues, and describes how those debates might evolve. The handbooks offer authoritative and trustworthy guides to the scholarship that defines the field. Format: Encyclopedias, Reference Subject(s): Philosophy, Encyclopedias

Online access to the Oxford Handbooks series in Religion. Each handbook takes an aspect of its discipline, explains the key issues, the classic and contemporary debates on those issues, and describes how those debates might evolve. The handbooks offer authoritative and trustworthy guides to the scholarship that defines the field. Format: Encyclopedias, Reference Subject(s): Religion, Encyclopedias

Covers all aspects of music worldwide, including composers, performers, other persons involved with music, terminology, musical genres and forms, orchestras, institutions, and cities and towns with significant musical traditions. Format: Encyclopedias, Reference Subject(s): Music, Encyclopedias

Searchable full text of reference books in many subjects. Books can be searched together or individually. Coverage: varies. Format: Encyclopedias, Reference Subject(s): Reference, Encyclopedias