MERLIN and MOBIUS
The name of the link on the library home page that takes you straight to all your MERLIN catalog search options
What is Classic Catalog (MERLIN)?
The name of the link from the library home page used to locate the database called Proquest Historical Newspapers
The name of the institution that produced Chronicling America
What is the Library of Congress?
The name of the portion of SHSMO digital collections that contains digitized newspapers from Missouri towns
What is Missouri Digital Newspaper Project?
Two types of publication that Discover@MU searches for, according to the library homepage
What are articles and books?
What you should do to obtain a book stored in the Depository
What is request the book (or: "request item")?
The two Chicago newspapers that are part of MU's Proquest Historical Newspapers collection
What are the Defender and the Tribune?
Number of results found if you search Missouri newspapers from 1900-1935 for the word "aeroplane"
What is 4255?
The set of years covered by the Cassville Republican newspaper
What are 1890-1946?
The overall topic covered in the full-text HeinOnline database
What is law?
The type of book that you cannot access, if it is owned by another MOBIUS library but not by MU
What is an ebook (or online book)?
The string of letters followed by an asterix (*) you'd use to locate articles containing AVIATOR, AVIATORS, AVIATION, or AVIATRIX
What is AVIAT* ?
What is Advanced?
The first year the word "aviation" appeared in the Missouri Historical Review
What is 1918?
The name of the black-and-gold button (or sometimes just a text link) to use, to locate full text of an article for which there's no direct full-text link in database search results
What is FindIt@MU?
The Missouri library that owns a copy of United States Marine Corps : aviation squadron lineage, insignia & history
The name of the "negro aviatrix" mentioned in several 1920's news articles
Who was Bessie Coleman?
The number of results for the word aeroplane within 5 words of the word fair in all newspapers between 1900 and 1935
What is 1205?
The first year the word "Flugzeug" appeared in the Hermanner Volksblatt
What is 1910?
The year in which the term "air traffic" first appears in law journals
What is 1910?
Number of items at MU (online or print) that have EITHER the term "aviation" OR the term "airplanes" in the SUBJECT, AND have the words United States in the SUBJECT, and were published between 1900 and 1935?
What is 65?
Of the 26 articles in Proquest Historical Newspapers with the phrase "Bessie Coleman" in the article title, the number NOT published in the Chicago Defender?
What is 1?
What is 22?
The name of the photographer who took pictures of the Wright Brothers' airplane in the SHSMO online photo collection
Who was Charles Trefts?
In a HathiTrust.org Advanced Full-Text search, the number of results of a search for the EXACT PHRASE Bessie Coleman in Full Text + All Fields, and ANY OF THE WORDS aviation airplanes pilots in the SUBJECT
What is 47?