New Database on TEL!

The Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL) is pleased to announce the addition of LearningExpress Library to the TEL collection of online resources. (Remember, TEL is available to all Tennesseeans, free of charge! ) LearningExpress Library is a comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons succeed on academic or licensing tests. Students and patrons get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of test results.

Go to http://www.tntel.info/ to try this new resource.

In addition to resources for skill improvement at all grade levels, you will find practice tests for:

• Civil service exams
• College entrance exams
• Cosmetology
• EMS
• Firefighter
• GED
• Graduate School Entrance exams
• Law Enforcement
• Military
• Nursing
• Real Estate
• Teaching
• TOEFL Preparation
• and many, many others

Tennessee Newspapers now part of TEL!

According to a message from the Tennessee State Library and Archives on December 3, the four metropolitan newspapers from Tennessee are now part of the Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL). The news release from TSLA follows:

We now have full-text access for the four metropolitan Tennessee newspapers for all Tennessee residents! The Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL) now provides full-text content of Chattanooga Times-Free Press, The Commercial Appeal (Memphis), Knoxville News-Sentinel, and The Tennessean (Nashville).

You may go to the Tennessee Newspaper Collection from the Tennessee State Library and Archives Web site located at www.tennessee.gov/tsla and click the link in the "News and Updates" section. Soon the TEL access link will be moved to a central TEL Web portal that is presently under development.

To go directly to the Tennessee newspapers:
http://infoweb.newsbank.com?db=NEWSBANK&s_sources=cusBucket1

If you are asked for a password, it is the same as the password for TEL. (Call your local TN public library if you don't know the password!)