http://www.lib.vt.edu/subject-guides/FIW/overview-wildlife.html en Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:27:30 -0400 kgoldbec@vt.edu kgoldbec@vt.edu http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/librarians/S_goldbeck-kiri-pic.jpg http://www.lib.vt.edu/subject-guides/FIW/overview-wildlife.html http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/G/grzimeks-animal-life-encyclopedia-from-gale.html <div style=" width: 200px; float: left;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/G/S_gale.jpg" alt="Gale" height="156px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://go.galegroup.com/ps/infomark.do?action=interpret&amp;eisbn=9780787677503&amp;prodId=GVRL&amp;userGroupName=viva_vpi&amp;type=aboutBook&amp;version=1.0&amp;authCount=1&amp;u=viva_vpi" title="Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia from Gale" target="_blank" class="vt_link_blank, vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://go.galegroup.com/ps/infomark.do?action=interpret&amp;eisbn=9780787677503&amp;prodId=GVRL&amp;userGroupName=viva_vpi&amp;type=aboutBook&amp;version=1.0&amp;authCount=1&amp;u=viva_vpi')" shape="rect">Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia from Gale</a> </span></h2><p><i>Grzimek's Animal Life</i> is the online version of the authoritative, 17-volume print encyclopedia. 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