Here\u27s the first resource you\u27ll tum to when a student looking for an early I 960s photo of Fidel Castro shows up at the reference desk. The Accunet/AP Photo Archive is a database of approximately 500,000 current and archived photos from the library of the Associated Press

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Santa Clara UniversityScholar CommonsStaff publications, research, and presentations University Library6-1-2000The Accunet/AP Photo Archive (Review)Elizabeth McKeigueSanta Clara University, emckeigue@gmail.comFollow this and additional works at: http://scholarcommons.scu.edu/libraryPart of the Library and Information Science CommonsThis Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the University Library at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Staffpublications, research, and presentations by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contactrscroggin@scu.edu.Recommended CitationMcKeigue, E. “The Accunet/AP Photo Archive.” (Review) Library Journal 1 June 2000.Copyright © 2000. All rights reserved.DDATABASEOOISC REVIEWSD EDITOR: CHERYL LaGUARDIA ELECTRONICALLY SPEAKING ... with this column's products you can feast your eyes on an invaluable new web-based photo archive, delve into the details of slave ship voyages, and learn the nuances of conduct-ing business in English for nonnative speakers. Find a rich new resource for budding scientists and a reference tool for sports enthusiasts, as well. lmJ THE ACCUNET/AP PHOTO ARCHIVE Accuweather Inc. (888-438-9847; salesmail@accuwx.com). www.ap.accuweather.com Date reviewed: 4/25/00 Price: Negotiated by site. Here's the first resource you'll tum to when a student looking for an early I 960s photo of Fidel Castro shows up at the ref-erence desk. The Accunet/AP Photo Archive is a database of approximately 500,000 current and archived photos from the library of the Associated Press. The Archive is updated daily, with an average 800 contemporary photos added each day. The best 200 or so photos from each day's additions are retained perma-nently in the database, while the rest are removed after 12 months. To give you an idea of just how current this archive is. on the morning of April 25, 2000, the data-base already contained photos from the previous afternoon's shooting at the Wash-ington National Zoo. In addition to its re-markable currency, the Photo Archive's historical collection also continues to grow. It features notable historical figures as well as images from significant events of the 20th century and, occasionally, the 19th (there's an 1844 photograph of Abra-ham Lincoln here). Each photo is accom-panied by a caption identifying details of the photo and providing historical context. The search interface has three free text search boxes labeled "What," "When," and "Where." Searching will be relatively intuitive for even first-timers, but there is also online Help available, as well as excellent search examples that will save every user time, especially when searching dates or a range of dates. There's a left-hand navigational bar for easy ac-cess to starting new searches, checking help, and limiting and sorting results. A real plus here is the "download image" feature. A couple of clicks of the mouse and each image can be saved on your hard drive or to a disk. Users can save the pho-to alone, or retain the caption as well. Cheryl LaGuardia is the Head of Instructional Services for the Harvard College Library, author of Becoming a Library Teacher (Neal-Schuman, 2000), and wmner of the 1996 Loms Shores-Oryx Press Award for Excellence m Reviewing ------------Standard Windows shortcuts also work for saving images: a single right-click on a spectacular photo of the Eiffel Tower tak-en at midnight on December 31, 1999, quickly saved the image as wallpaper to my PC. Vive le systeme! The Bottom Line: AP Photo is a wonderfully rich, easy-to-use resource for finding sought-after images quickly; the deep archive of historical material is espe-cially notable. For users of all ages seeking multimedia for reports, research, and pre-sentations, this invaluable file is enthusias-tically recommended for all libraries. -Elizabeth McKeigue, Access Svcs., Widener Lib., Harvard Univ. l!llil COLUMBIA GRANGER'S WORLD OF POETRY ONLINE Columbia Univ. (800-944.8648; ms 1004@columbia.edu). www.columbia.edu/cu/cup or www.grangers.org Date reviewed: 4/2/00 Price: Negotiated by site. Beginning with the publication of Granger's Index to Poetry in 1904, the Granger's name has been synonymous with the definitive resource for locating a poem in English. Available as the printed Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Anthologies, 11th edition, and on CD-ROM, now Granger's goes online as Co-lumbia Granger's World of Poetry. It is indexed extensively by author, author cat-egory, subject, words in complete poem and excerpts, words in title, first line and last line, and anywhere. World of Poetry Online is much more than just a web-delivered version of the latest print and CD-ROM editions of the Index to Poetry in Anthologies. Some of the publications also included in this LIBRARY JOURNAUJUNE I, 2000 online resource are Columbia Granger's Index to Poetrv in Collected and Selected Works, Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations, and The Classic Hun-dred Poems: All-Time Favorites. Forty-six of the biographies and 100 of the com-mentaries from The Classic Hundred Po-ems have been adapted for Granger's On-line. Some biographies are based on arti-cles in the Columbia Encyclopedia; all other commentaries and biographies were written specially for Granger's Online. The online version contains 13,000 full-text poems with new search indexing: the Author Category (Asian American, Irish, Latin American, etc.) is a new enhance-ment, which first appeared in 1999 on CD-ROM. The content of the online version will be updated quarterly, with additional full-text poems, excerpts, commentaries, biographies, bibliographies, and essays written by William Harmon, author, schol-ar, poet, and editor of several of the Co-lumbia Granger's poetry anthologies. The link, Meet the Editor, on the main screen, leads to a biography and a wonderful "Let-ter from the Editor" about his relationship and experience with poetry as a student, a writer, and a teacher. His thoughts on read-ing, learning about, and appreciating poet -ry are further developed in another link, Getting the Most Out of Granger's. Using the system is obvious, en-thralling, educational, and a lot of fun. First off, the initial screen is uncluttered by graphics or wallpaper, with a well-written, easy-to-read and -understand list of search options: Simple Search, Advanced Search, (by) Anthologies, Biographies, and Glos-sary. Simple Search invokes a search blank with index selection for Author, Author Category, Subject, Title, First Line, and Last Line, with added choices for Alpha-betic or Keyword search, Complete Po-ems, Excerpts Only, or All Entries. I was initially puzzled by the command to press the Start button until I realized I needed to scroll a bit on the search frame. Having done that, l was able to search for po-ems/anthologies with works by a favorite author, or for poems on a favorite topic (finding that wonderful poem entitled "Chocolates"). A search for the phrase "that time of year" retrieved two records for Shakespeare's Sonnet 73, plus poems by Jean Toomer and Delmore Schwartz. Icons on each record indicate links to further information about the author, the poem, and anthologies. Linking to Poem Information brings up a list of anthologies, some with a review: Recommended or 213 

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