NEWS RELEASE

For Immediate Release:  Denver, Colorado November 5, 2007

Aquinas College Licenses Gold Rush

The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries is pleased to announce that the Aquinas College Library (http://www.aquinascollege.edu/) in Nashville Tennessee has licensed Gold Rush Complete. 

Aquinas College, established in 1928 was originally called Saint Cicilia Normal School. It was originally created for Sisters to prepare them for their teaching apostolate. Since then, the college has moved from Saint Cecilia Motherhouse to its present location on a lush, green 92 acre campus which is now open to the public. 

Aquinas College is a liberal arts college that is rooted in the Dominican tradition. Philosophy and theology is included in each course and helps to stimulate the dialogue between faith and reason. Major areas of academic study are liberal arts, teacher education, business, nursing and adult studies.

The library subscribes to several online databases containing a large variety of full text journal articles, newspaper stories, e-books, pamphlets, encyclopedia articles and even a music library.  Their databases cover a wide range of academic subjects including business, education, literature, nursing, public policy & government, philosophy, religion, and science. 

About Gold Rush

Gold Rush is web-based central digital registry of databases and electronic journals including both stand-alone and titles embedded within aggregated services. Gold Rush Complete offers a suite of tools for public access and staff management. The web-based search interface is intuitive, and allows for easy searching of electronic journals and databases showing full-text from primary publishers, aggregators and indexing/abstracting services.  Gold Rush Complete offers openURL link resolution, subscription management, a public search interface (A-Z) and content comparison.  See: http://grweb.coalliance.org/ for further information about Gold Rush.

About The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries

The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (http://www.coalliance.org)  is a non-profit consortium of eleven libraries in Colorado and Wyoming.  It is a 32 year old partnership of academic, special and public libraries with a history of working in concert to share resources through cooperative purchasing, special projects, systems management and consulting services.  Member Libraries include:  Auraria Library, Colorado College, Colorado School of Mines, Colorado State University, Denver Public Library, Regis University, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado and the University of Wyoming..

For more information contact:

Adria Olmi 
Reference/Serials Librarian
Aquinas College Library
4210 Harding Road
Nashville, TN 37205
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(615) 297-7545 X474

Rose Nelson

Systems Librarian

Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries

http://www.coalliance.org

303-759-3399 X103 (ph)

303-759-3363 (fax)