SCHOLARLY WORK BY AUM STUDENTS SELECTED FOR INCLUSION IN MAJOR DATABASE

Various books containing the scholarly work of hundreds of AUM students have been selected for inclusion in the Literary Reference Center (LRC), a key electronic database that is widely available in public, school, and college libraries throughout the world. The re-publication of the books in the LRC means that the scholarship of the AUM students will now be easily accessible to researchers, teachers, and students working just about anywhere and at any time of the day or night.

Among the books selected for inclusion in LRC are titles dealing with such writers as Ambrose Bierce, Kate Chopin, Ben Jonson, and Frank O’Connor, plus a comprehensive volume dealing with American and British short stories. In addition, LRC also reprints the newest edition of a comprehensive volume titled Close Readings: Analyses of Short Fiction from Multiple Perspectives by Students of Auburn University Montgomery. An earlier edition of that book had already been reprinted in the Ebrary database (www.ebrary.com), which is also available through many libraries in the US and abroad.

LRC is produced by EBSCO Publishing, an industry leader in information resources. EBSCO describes its databases as “the most-used, for-fee, online information resources for tens of thousands of institutions worldwide” (www.epnet.com ). The work of numerous AUM students is now readily available to library users at all of those subscribing institutions, including through the Alabama Virtual Library (www.avl.lib.al.us) as well as through the AUM Library itself.

Each book prints the work and ideas of numerous AUM students; the one on Bierce, instance, contains the work of more than 120 past and present students, including Michelle Ackerman, Suzanne Armstrong, Eric W. Atkins, Shannon M. Barco, Bebe Barefoot, Ben Beard, Larry Boswell, Nataliya Bowden, Lee Bridges, Candice Briggs, Spencer Brothers, Scott Bruner, Tanya Brummett, Maranda Bryant, Lisa Bush, Karen Capps, Tabetha Carpenter, Missi Carrier, Scott Champion, John Conway, Jessica Cook, Tenika Cottingham, Melissa Crane, Erika Davis, Shannon Davis, Shannon Dean, Foster Dickson, Lauren Duke, Paul Duke, Kathleen Durrer, Heather Edwards, Leslie Evans, Angie Fuhrman, Heather Finley, Erin Gambino, Jimmy Garrett, Jeff Glass, Michael Goldman, Shelley Green, Kenneth W. Griffin, Anthony T. Hagan, Gina M. Harper, Barbara Hartin, Nikisha Hayes, Scott Hayles, Phyllis Hedrick, Charlotte Henderson, Sonjanika Henderson, Deborah Cosier Hill, Russ Holder, Laketa Huddleston, Jenny Hudson, Glenn Hunt, Jennifer Jacobs, Hashim C. Jeffries, Jason Johnson, Travis Jordan, John Kelley, Mark Koehler, Monica Felicia Lee, Meg Lewis, Tony Liang, Danon Lucas, Denah Lucas, Regina G. Lucas, Katie Magaw, Kathy Mayfield, Mandy McAlister, LaWendy Meadows, Daniel Meredith, Christy Meyers, Toinette Mitchell, Laura Moore, Josh Mustin, Zachery Myrick, Kristi Owen, Jason Peacock, Pamela Combs Pettis, Lane Powell, Neil Probst, Derrick Rainwater, Alma Ramirez, Jennifer Richardson, Rian Rider, Denean Rivera, Marie Robinson, Melissa Roth, Terri Richburg, Katrina Sansom, Julie D. Sellers, Tawanda Shaw, Kimberly Ann Sloss, Mollie Smith, Charles Solomon, Quesha S. Starks, Patrick Steele, Caryn Stewart, Frances Stewart, Patsy Stewart, Randy C. Stone, Laura Stough, Sara Sweeton, Daniel Talley, Lori Taylor, Monica G. Tindol, Mike Trotter, Barbrietta Turner, Sharon Watts, Michael Webb, Marge West, Ashley Wilkins, Lisa Williams, Sasha Woods, and Jonathan Wright.