Graduate student theses (Master’s level) and dissertations (PhD – Doctoral level) are searchable through QuickSearch on the Consortium Library’s home page, or you can go to the Dissertations/Theses Full Text database directly. Questions? Ask a librarian!

The Consortium Library has lots of Ebooks on all sorts of topics. There are several ways to find them:
1. search the list of Ebooks
2. limit QuickSearch to “Books/eBooks”
3. search our new library catalog interface; once you find some results, limit to “Electronic resource.”
Questions? Start with this helpful Guide to Ebooks or Ask a Librarian.

We can assist you at the Reference Desk in the Library, please don’t hesitate to ask.

http://ask.consortiumlibrary.org/

Come by, call, email, or chat with us online.

Celebrate Earth Day (April 22) by investigating all sorts of topics in the Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability.

The ten volumes in this encyclopedia have information on activism to zero waste, and everything in between. Geographic areas around the world are represented, too.

Have fun exploring!

The Poet Laureate, Natasha Tretheway commenced her residency in January of this year, in Washington D.C. To find out more about this poet and previous Poet Laureates, see the Library of Congress website on Poetry and Literature.

If you are looking for other poetry resources, consider the following databases:

Literature Criticism Online featuring Critical literary analysis of authors and their works across a broad range of regions, eras, and genres. Includes Something About the Author Online and Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online.

Literature Resource Center featuring access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline.

Literary Index featuring a master index to Gale’s series for authors and literary criticism.

Access these databases by clicking on Databases (a subheading in the box called Find Books & Articles) on our main library page and then selecting the letter ‘L’. Scroll down to the database titles listed above.