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LANIC - Latin American Network Information Center

From the University of Texas at Austin, LANIC facilitates access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America. Our target audience includes people living in Latin America, as well as those around the world who have an interest in this region. While many of our resources are designed to facilitate research and academic endeavors, our site has also become an important gateway to Latin America for primary and secondary school teachers and students, private and public sector professionals.

LearningExpressLibrary (Career, Skills & Practice Exams)

Access several K-12, college, and workforce centers for free online academic and licensing practice tests and exams; career exploration and advice; job searching skills; academic success & more! Learning Express offers over 27 tests including GED, SAT, TOEFL, Nursing, GRE, Firefighter, Civil Service, U.S. Citizenship, Writing. Create a simple, free account to take practice exams.

Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music (John Hopkins University)

Includes over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. The collection spans the years 1780 to 1980, but its strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century America through popular music. The collection is especially strong in music spawned by military conflicts from the War of 1812 through World War I, and minstrel music is also well represented. Other topics include music about the circus; dance; drinking, temperance, and smoking; fraternal orders; presidents; romantic and sentimental songs; schools and colleges; and transportation.

Lexis-Nexis - All Lexis & Company Dossier

Lexis Nexis has full-text and abstracts of news, business, and legal information. Great source for regional, national, and international newspaper coverage.

Lexis-Nexis - All News Search

LexisNexis® is a leading global provider of information designed specifically for professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting, and academic markets. This link provides advanced searching of all major world publications, newspapers, reviews, broadcasts & more.

Lexis-Nexis - U.S. Legal Cases & Codes

LexisNexis® is a leading global provider of information designed specifically for professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting, and academic markets. This link provides advanced searching of all U.S. federal & state cases. Also a portal to other legal cases, codes, Supreme Court briefs, patents, tax law & more.

Library of Congress

The LOC's mission is to support the Congress in fulfilling its constitutional duties and to further the progress of knowledge and creativity for the benefit of the American people. Search the library's catalog and collections.

Library of Southern Literature (U of N. Carolina-Chapel Hill)

Documenting the American South, a digital publishing initiative sponsored by the University Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture.

Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts

(via EbscoHost) Formerly Information Science and Technology Abstracts (ISTA). Beginning in 1960; subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, and information management, the information industry. LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings.

LibWeb

Library servers via WWW. Libweb currently lists over 8000 pages from libraries in 146 countries.

Lift Every Voice: Music in American Life (University of Virginia Library)

Explores the history of ballads, hymns, spirituals, patriotic odes, minstrel and musical works, and protest songs of the United States. Includes audio clips, sheet music, images, song sheets and photographs.

Literature Criticism Online (Gale)

Includes author biographies and reviews and criticism of their works in contemporary, children, drama, poetry, and short story literature.

Literature Online Core Collection (Chadwyck-Proquest)

A fully searchable library of more than 355,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 376 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources. Provided through Proquest.

Literature Resource Center (Gale)

Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline; 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.