DATABASES - Fiction Connection
& Patron Books In Print is Now Working!
Thanks to Rex’s persistence, we now have
access to these two databases. Access will require one extra
step. After you select, for example, Fiction Connection
and authenticate, you will see a page with the following
message:
FLLS - Fiction Connection Referral
Page
Please click on the link below to be
authenticated and redirected to the Bowker Fiction
Connection website. This is necessary because of
technical limitations at Bowker.
Click on the link on the Referral Page and
you will be in Fiction Connection.
If there is interest, I can arrange for
webinars that you and your staff can attend remotely to
introduce these new databases to you.
DATABASES - Health & Wellness
Resource Center
Take a look at its new homepage with an
enhanced search box, health news stories, and a drug and herbal
remedy/symptom search tool. Sign-up at
www.gale.com/webevents to participate in a free Webinar on
one of these Wednesdays at 2 pm on 5/14, 5/28, 6/11, or 6/25.
LAST WEEK’S QUESTION OF THE WEEK: Western
writer, Max Brand, is one of many pseudonyms for a man who also
wrote historical fiction, crime stories, and wrote and produced
several Dr. Kildare movies. What was his given name?
Malia responded that,
“Frederick Schiller Faust was born in Seattle,
Washington, on May 29, 1892. Faust’s many pseudonyms (include)
George Owen Baxter, David Manning, Evan Evans, and above all Max
Brand.”
His first Dr. Kildare story, “Interns Can't
Take Money,” appeared in Cosmopolitan in 1936 and
the movie version starring Joel McCrea and Barbara Stanwyck, was
released by Paramount in 1937.
A critical analysis of Brand’s work as well
as interesting biographical particulars can be found in the
database Twayne’s Author Series.
THIS WEEK’S QUESTION OF THE WEEK: David
Baldacci has another New York Times best seller. Name
three Author Read-alikes for readers who may be waiting to read
his newest book The Whole Truth.
Submit your own Question of the Week for inclusion in future
FLLS Bulletins by emailing me at
lbeins@flls.org !