CARLI Electronic Resources Vendor Proposal

Date submitted: 07-29-2008

What is the proposed product?

American Mosaic

Provide a URL for this product.

http://www.greenwood.com/mosaic A multiethnic experience suite of databases: African American (2006), Latino American (2007), American Indian (2008) and in 2009, Asian American Experience databases

Describe the scope & content in detail.

American Mosaic provides the digitized works of over 400 published titles covering 3 main ethnic groups in separate databases and an integrated interface. The subject areas are wide and include accumulatively over 15,000 biographies, celebrities, hundreds of historical events, thousands of images, hundreds of primary documents, audio files, and slave narratives covering frome early pre-American days to present time. TOP ACADEMIC advisors are part of each database -- many from Illinois institutions.

What is the intended core audience for the product?

Academic and public libraries.

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