If you do not have e-mail, please fax the application as indicated. NoveList is only available to academic, public and school libraries. The PDR Electronic Library Online staff began setting up connections last week. ISBE is still working on contracts for the coming year. The Illinois State Library is in the process of finalizing contracts with FirstSearch, NoveList and News Illinois, and negotiating statewide purchases of Grove's Encyclopedia of Life Sciences and the PDR Electronic Library Online.
Database descriptions are as follows.
FirstSearch will continue with the 16 databases currently offered. H.W. Wilson Select, a full text database, will be expanding as the year progresses. Libraries currently subscribed to FirstSearch do not need to re-apply. Applications already in the queue will be processed first. Libraries currently subscribed to NoveList do not need to re-apply.