Databases & Online Resources
The library offers access to databases and online resources on a wide variety of subjects. Some resources are licensed for use in Wyoming or Campbell County libraries only and require a password if you are not accessing them from within a library. To use these resources from home, provide your library card and PIN when they are requested.
Book Review Index (Gale Literature)
Quickly access reviews of books, periodicals, books on tape, and electronic media representing a wide range of interests.
Bookflix – connect from a library | connect remotely
A literacy resource for grades PreK-3 that pairs classic fictional video storybooks with related eBooks. Animation, audio and interactive games are designed to reinforce core reading skills.
Answer the age-old question, “What do I read next?” Search and match reading interests to books, authors, genres, or topics.
Chadwyck-Healey Literature Collections
From poetry and drama to fiction and specialty collections, researchers can access hundreds of years of literature from renowned authors and poets. Many of the collections are cross-searchable using the LION interface.
Access a wide array of multidisciplinary content by searching scholarly journals, newspapers, periodicals, images, and videos.
Communications and Mass Media (Gale OneFile)
Search millions of articles covering all aspects of communications, including advertising, public relations, and more.
Contemporary Literary Criticism
Profiling novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, scriptwriters, and other creative writers who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. The profiles provide full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals. Approximately 90-95% of critical essays are full text, prefaced by a full citation and annotation and most entries include an author portrait. Available to Campbell County library cardholders. Have your library card number and PIN handy for access outside the library.
Databases include general interest, biography, business, auto repair, archival sources, literary criticism, research for all ages, and more. Many databases funded by the University of Wyoming.
Search this digital master index to the major literature products published by Gale. It combines and cross-references author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and listings for titles of works into one source.
Search several major Gale literature databases at one time. Includes Literature Resource Center, LitFinder, Scribner Writers, and Twayne’s Authors.
Literature Criticism Online (Gale)
Offering access to the Contemporary Literary Criticism series, which profiles novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, scriptwriters, and other creative writers who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. The profiles provide full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers, and scholarly journals. Approximately 90-95% of critical essays are full text, prefaced by a full citation and annotation and most entries include an author portrait. Available to Campbell County library cardholders. Have your library card number and PIN handy for access outside the library.
An essential resource for the study and teaching of literature in English, combining the texts of over 350,000 literary works with a vast library of key criticism and reference resources. Literature Online also includes audio and video content through its Poets on Screen recordings of poets reading their own and others’ works and the Shakespeare Audio Plays collection.
Literature Resource Center (Gale)
Find up-to-date biographies, overviews, full-text criticisms, audio interviews, and reviews on writers from all eras.
Includes RA, works, author biographies, poetry, study guides, literary criticism and more. Compiled by the Wyoming State Library.
Access literary works and authors throughout history, including full-text poems, plays, short stories, speeches, and more.
NoveList K-8 Plus is especially for younger readers. It has reading recommendations for both fiction and nonfiction, for kids in grades K-8. Use it to find just the right books for every reader.
Reading recommendations for both nonfiction and fiction. Describe a plot with author readalikes, find reviews and much more for thousands of books. Explore ‘What We’re Reading’, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists. Now includes audiobook reviews!
Provides critical overviews of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the work’s cultural and historical significance. Available to Campbell County library cardholders. Have your library card number and PIN handy for access outside the library.
Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction. Available to Campbell County library cardholders. Have your library card number and PIN handy for access outside the library.
Over 30 databases providing comprehensive coverage of the humanities, arts, and culture including literature, history, religion, philosophy, and fine and performing arts.
A literature database specifically for K-12 students. Find authors, criticism, study guides, multimedia and more.
Proquest Literature and Language
Comprehensive coverage of the humanities, arts, and culture with over 1,000 titles in the main subject areas including literature, history, religion, philosophy, and fine and performing arts.
Scribner Writer Series (Gale Literature)
Browse original scholarly essays on authors from around the world. Places authors and their works in personal and historical context.
Short Stories for Students (Gale)
Provides critical overviews of short stories from all cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the story’s cultural and historical significance. Available to Campbell County library cardholders. Have your library card number and PIN handy for access outside the library.
Twayne’s Author Series (Gale Literature)
Find in-depth critical introductions to the lives and works of major writers. Includes influences of literary movements.