RedLightGreen

RLG's RedLightGreen helps students locate the most important books and other research materials in their area of interest, and find out whether what they need is available at nearby libraries. Registered users can also format and send citations following the MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian style manuals.

Search Page for RedLightGreen [TinyURL: http://snurl.com/2ijy]

By leveraging the 126 million bibliographic records representing 42 million titles contained within the RLG Union Catalog, the immediate goal for RLG's "RedLightGreen" project is to offer rich, reliable library information that is unique in the Web environment and to deliver that information in ways that meet the expectations of undergraduate researchers.

According to the
RedLightGreen information page:

"Responding to new expectations in this environment, libraries, archives, and museums have begun asserting their role in the information discovery process, rethinking and repositioning their traditional tool the catalog. In 2002, RLG began working to reinvent and transfer its largest bibliographic database, the RLG Union Catalog, to the open Web environment in a completely new way.

This database was formed by the collaborative contributions of RLG member institutions. The wealth of information and worldwide scope of the 23-year old catalog (over 40 million descriptions of books, maps, films, recordings, and manuscripts from 300 countries, in over 370 languages) make it a tremendous potential resource for an enormous Web audienceas it has long been for the students and scholars at subscribing libraries and research centers."

Posted by Tom on October 06, 2003