Contact: David West (west@alpha.nsula.edu )
News Bureau
Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA 71497
(318) 357-6466

1/15/2002

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NATCHITOCHES- A new electronic database is available in the Northwestern State University Library. The database, ITER, includes bibliographies of articles and reviews drawn from 518 medieval and renaissance journal titles. Updates are made to the database daily with thousands of new records added annually. According to Abbie Landry, head of the Reference Division in NSU's Watson Library, this powerful research tool will be helpful to scholars interested in the Middle Ages and Renaissance from 400-1700.

The ITER database can be reached from the NSU Library Web page under "databases" from on-campus locations only. Licensing restrictions prevent off-campus access at this time.

"ITER goes beyond history and covers music, art and all facet of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance," said Landry. "The database is more useful for those doing research such as upper level undergraduates, graduate students and faculty."

Future plans include a bibliography of monographs, and providing access to conference proceedings, dissertations, online resources and works of art and music.

ITER is a not-for-profit entity created in 1994 by a partnership of the Renaissance Society of America, the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies of Victoria University at the University of Toronto, the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University, the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto and the John P. Robarts Library at the University of Toronto. The Sixteenth Century Studies Conference joined ITER as an affiliate society in January
2001.

For more information, contact the Watson Library Reference Division at (318) 357-4574 or (888) 540-9657.

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