MERLIN and MOBIUS
Proquest Historical Newspapers
Chronicling America
SHSMO Digital Collections
All the Sources!
100

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)?

100

The name of the link from the library home page used to locate the database called Proquest Historical Newspapers

What is (LOOKING FOR) A database?
100

The name of the institution that produced Chronicling America

What is the Library of Congress?

100

The name of the portion of SHSMO digital collections that contains digitized newspapers from Missouri towns

What is Missouri Digital Newspaper Project?

100

Two types of publication that Discover@MU searches for, according to the library homepage

What are articles and books?

200

What you should do to obtain a book stored in the Depository

What is request the book (or: "request item")?

200

The two Chicago newspapers that are part of MU's Proquest Historical Newspapers collection

What are the Defender and the Tribune?

200

Number of results found if you search Missouri newspapers from 1900-1935 for the word "aeroplane"

What is 4255?

200

The set of years covered by the Cassville Republican newspaper

What are 1890-1946?

200

The overall topic covered in the full-text HeinOnline database

What is law?

300

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)?

300

The string of letters followed by an asterix (*) you'd use to locate articles containing AVIATOR, AVIATORS, AVIATION, or AVIATRIX

What is AVIAT* ?

300
The type of search that allows you to specify how close to one another your search terms are (ex. "flights within 3 words of plane")

What is Advanced?

300

The first year the word "aviation" appeared in the Missouri Historical Review

What is 1918?

300

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?

400

The Missouri library that owns a copy of United States Marine Corps : aviation squadron lineage, insignia & history

What is Missouri State?
400

The name of the "negro aviatrix" mentioned in several 1920's news articles

Who was Bessie Coleman?

400

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?

400

The first year the word "Flugzeug" appeared in the Hermanner Volksblatt

What is 1910?

400

The year in which the term "air traffic" first appears in law journals

What is 1910?

500

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?

500

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?

500
The number of Christian County, Missouri newspapers included in Chronicling America

What is 22?

500

The name of the photographer who took pictures of the Wright Brothers' airplane in the SHSMO online photo collection

Who was Charles Trefts?

500

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?