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| What's New at the Library, Fall 2008 |
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While you were off enjoying your summer, the library staff got crackin' and changed a whole lot of stuff. Here's the list: |
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New Hours |
| The library is now open from 7:45 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Fridays and 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturdays, giving you six more hours of study time per week. |
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New Call Numbers for CDs and DVDs |
| To make browing for music CDs and Feature Film DVDs easier, those two collections were given entirely new call numbers. CDs are now arranged by genre (like Classical, Jazz, etc.) and then by artist, while feature film DVDs are now in alphabetical order by title (instructional DVDs and VHSs are still arranged in LC or Dewey order). |
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New TomCat Design and Features |
| Our online catalog has received an updated look, which includes: |
- Spellchecker: suggests alternative spellings if it can't find any items matching the word/s you typed in, much like Google does
- Links to additional information about various materials
- Images of the book jackets and covers to many items
- My TomCat, a way for you to create your own TomCat account to save preferred searches, create booklists and rate the materials in the catalog
- A new results display
- Records for 14,000 electronic books
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New Library Web Page Design |
| We changed our look to better serve you: |
- New menu boxes to help you find what you're looking for more easily
- More descriptive titles for pages
- Chat Reference available via the Ask Us! link
- Quick searching of TomCat and Reference books
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New Research Help for You |
| We added some resources that will help you do research, write citations and avoid academic dishonesty: |
- The library now has something called a LInk Resolver that will make it easier for you to find full text versions of the articles you're interested in. Simply look for a link that says "Click for Full Text" or "Link to Full Text" when you're viewing an article record. Click on the link and it will take you to a page that tells you where the article is available in full text (if it is available in full text).
- MLA Citation tutorial: the MOdern Languages Association changed their citation style over the summer. This tutorial introduces you to the new format, as well as gives you an overview of how to create MLA citations
- Plagiarism and Academic Integrity tutorials: if you're not exactly sure what cheating is and how to avoid it, these tutorials are for you. Both are under 10 minutes long and use humor to discuss the important issues of academic honesty.
- Information on copyright issues and the Library's policies
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New Databases |
We've added these new databases to make your research even easier: |
- Birds of North America: The
BNA is the most comprehensive, up-to-date educational resource concerning the life histories of all birds that live and breed in North America. Created by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the American Ornithologists' Union, this database comes complete with full histories and descriptions of species, color photos, and audio recordings of sounds and songs, this database has something for everybody from an amateur bird watcher to a professional ornithologist.
- Graphic Novel Core Collection: For collection development, readers’ advisory, curriculum support, and selection and purchasing, the Graphic Novels Core Collection addresses the growing popularity of this literary form. It highlights approximately 2,000 recommended titles with descriptive and evaluative annotations (including review excerpts and awards the title has won), plus cover art. Standards for rating material by age appropriateness are strictly applied, plus all titles are searchable by author, title, subject, genre, and grade level.
- JSTOR Arts & Sciences IV & V: our fourth and fifth JSTOR collections, both are 100% full text. IV has a strong focus on the professions of business, education, and law, and also includes titles in psychology and public policy and administration. There are 112 titles in this collection. V builds on previously introduced disciplines, adding important literary reviews and state historical journals. It will also widen the scope of core disciplines in the arts and humanities, such as philosophy, history, classics, religion, art and art history, and language and literature. When complete, the collection will number at least 120 titles.
- Communication and Mass Media Complete: CMMC offers cover-to-cover indexing for more than 460 journals, and selected coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 660 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for 350 journals.
- SciFinder Scholar:
is a tool that allows college students and faculty to access a wide diversity of research from many scientific disciplines, including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more
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Book Exchange |
| Tired of reading only assigned books? Check out the new Book Exchange. The Exchange is casual. Feel free to leave books you don’t want any more and take books you’d like to read. Then, either bring them back to us when you're finished, or, if you decide to keep them, bring us something else to replace them. |
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| Donated items should be in good condition and; popular fiction (e.g. John Grisham, etc.) and non-fiction (e.g. Eat, Pray, Love) are encouraged (no textbooks please). |
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New Book Distribution within the Circulating Stacks |
| To more evenly distribute the circulating books among the second and third floors, our hardworking circulation assistants spent the summer shifting all the books on both floors. The Second Floor now covers A - HQ and the Third Floor has HX to Z and the Oversize titles. |
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