The virtual tour may introduce you to areas or services of the library not entirely familiar to you and provide a simple starting point for exploring informational resources as well. Savvy researchers will do the latter. All that is required is Internet access through the campus network and a browser such as Netscape. Literature Online , also known as LION , consists of several databases. The Bible in English contains twenty-one versions of the Bible.
Users can search across all versions, a selection of versions, or a single edition.
They can compare different versions of the same text on screen at the same time or search for a single word across the editions. This same ability to search across different editions of the same text is also available in the Shakespeare database. These fully searchable databases can be read online, downloaded to a disc, or printed. The database collection known as SearchBank is available in-house within the Tisch and Music libraries until February of 1998 on a trial basis. If reaction to SearchBank is positive, the MBLC has offered to extend the program indefinitely.