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Featured Reference Books:

Book Jacket: Museums, Zoos & Botanical Gardens of Wisconsin

Profiles of Wisconsin, 2007

The Wisconsin Blue Book, current year

Biography Index to the Wisconsin Blue Books (1870-2005), 1974-2005

Famous Wisconsin Authors, 2002

Famous Wisconsin Film Stars, 2002

WISDEX: Wisconsin Biography Index, 2002

Wisconsin Biographical Dictionary, 2nd ed., 2 volumes, 1999

Wisconsin Manufacturers Register, 2007

Foundations in Wisconsin: A Directory, 25th ed., 2006

Wisconsin School Directory, 2005

Membership Directory & Resource Guide of the Greater La Crosse Area Chamber of Commerce, 2007

Wisconsin History: An Annotated Bibliography, 1999

Wisconsin’s Past and Present: A Historical Atlas, 1998

Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. Wisconsin, 1997

Atlas of Ethnic Diversity in Wisconsin, 1998

Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Wisconsin, 2006

Museums, Zoos & Botanical Gardens of Wisconsin, 2006

La Crosse County, Monroe County, Wisconsin Street & Road Atlas, 2003

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Essential Resources:
La Crosse Weather (NWS)
Map of La Crosse (MapQuest)
La Crosse Area Libraries

Digital Resources Authored at Murphy Library and Beyond.  Collections include: UW-La Crosse; La Crosse County; Mississippi River; Steamboats & Mississippi and Inland Rivers, Wisconsiana; UW- L Theses, Seminar Papers, JUR, etc.; UW Digital Collections.

La Crosse Tribune. The major local newspaper.

La Crosse Tribune Index from the La Crosse Public Library.

Additional Resources:

Dictionary of Wisconsin History from the Wisconsin Historical Society.  Explains more than 8,000 terms (people, places, things, and events) used in writings about Wisconsin history.

Great Rivers 2-1-1 (formerly First Call For Help) provides free, confidential community information, referrals and crisis line services 24 hours a day. Maintains a database of over 3,500 community and human service programs in the 17-county region.  A service of Gundersen Lutheran and Great Rivers United Way.

History Repeats Itself... from the La Crosse Public Library is a collection of popular topics in the La Crosse community that tend to repeat over time. Examples include the disappearance of Evelyn Hartley, the Ten Commandments issue, and the proposed North-South corridor (road) through the marsh.

La Crosse County Directory

La Crosse County Historical Society.

La Crosse, WI Community Information from the La Crosse Public Library includes local web sites, organizations, demographics, historical maps, La Crosse County history, Curb Appeal and more.

La Crosse Wisconsin Area Home Page contains links and information compiled by the La Crosse Area Communications Consortium.

Monroe County Local History Room.

Wisconsin Authors Database is derived from Orrilla Blackshear's: Wisconsin authors and their books, 1836-1975. Subsequent material is from a database of Wisconsin authors built by the Wisconsin Academy Center for the Book. The list currently (08/14/02) contains 8,044 authors and 24,256 titles.

Wisconsiana from Murphy Library Special Collections & ARC includes primary source material and links to top Wisconsin historical information web sites.

 

Multidisciplinary Library Databases:
 These full-text resources also include information related to this subject area:

Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost). Includes full text of scholarly and popular periodicals.

MasterFile Premier (EBSCOhost). Includes full text of mostly popular periodicals, some scholarly, newspapers, and more.

LexisNexis Academic. Includes full text of popular, scholarly, trade, and professional periodicals, and much more.

CQ Researcher. For in-depth reports on current and past topics in all subject areas.

JSTOR. For reliable access to full text of articles from more than 490 periodicals more than 2-5 years old.

 

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