60

Blank books circulating in the South Central Library System in Madison, Wisconsin that are being creatively filled by users as part of the Sixty Books project

210,000,000

Dollars to fund a library modernization program in Los Angeles, California, which is backed by voter-approved bonds

5,700,000,000
	Online searches conducted across 60 search engines in January 2006

400,000

Volumes of handwritten books in Iranian libraries

Radical, Man!

Alternative Press databases now available on FirstSearch

Two Alternative Press databases are now available on FirstSearch. Library users now have access to resources on social issues from alternative and/or radical viewpoints. The databases provide comprehensive indexing of nonconformist periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Alternative Press Index covers 1991 to the present; Alternative Press Index Archive covers 1969–1990. The coverage in both databases is international and interdisciplinary and includes subjects like pacifism, ecology, labor and socialism. The Alternative Press databases cover hundreds of sources and offer more than 750,000 records for further exploration. Primary topic areas include: African-American studies, ecology, ethnic studies, feminism, gay-lesbian studies, international studies, labor, radical democracy and socialism. The databases index many types of information, including bibliographies, directories, editorials, foreign language articles, indexes, interviews, obituaries, regular columns, reprints from other sources, reviews and speeches. Learn more at www.oclc.org/support/documentation/firstsearch.

WorldCat Statistics

Watch WorldCat grow—a new record and 13 new holdings are added about every 10 seconds: www.oclc.org/worldcat/grow.

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