The Elihu Burritt Librarys World Wide Web home page offers users substantial access to many different types of information. There is plenty to explore: users can take advantage of the Librarys subscription to the electronic Encyclopedia Britannica (see last issue of this Newsletter), full text journals from Project Muse, and many trial offers from database vendors.

A notable resource that has migrated to the Web is the Biography and Genealogy Master Index. BMGI lists names of persons and will provide information on where biographical information has appeared. Formerly a multivolume printed resource, the BMGI shrank to cd-rom size several years ago. Now it is available to the CCSU community through the Librarys home page on the WWW. (The Library's URL is http://library.ccsu.ctstateu.edu/lib)

To access this database, begin at the Librarys home page, select Access to Electronic Resources, then select Biography and Genealogy Master Index. Enter a word or name.

The links below take you into the Biography and Genealogy Master Index. You must be on the CCSU campus network to access these links. Use your browser's back button to return to this page.

• Here is the main search screen.
• Here are the results of a search for the name Salman Rushdie.
• Rushdie appears several times. Here is reference number 3 from the list with 57 biographical entries for Rushdie.