E-CONNECTIONFeatures:Electronic Classroom - For the new millennium Electronic Document Delivery - For faculty. Electronic Databases - Ebsco and more. What's new: New Kid on the Block! -Curriculum Resource Library Wireless Laptops - Borrow at circulation. Academic Liasons - Meet your liason! More JSTOR - Arts & Sciences II Collection How to: Spring Workshops - Sign up and learn. CHECK OUT A WIRELESS LAPTOP!Coming soon Three laptops will be available for checkout from the circulation desk. The laptops are set up with all the resources available on the library's computers, plus Microsoft Office 2000. Borrowers can checkout the laptop for two hours at a time, and will be restricted to in-library use only. Access to the Internet will be available on the first floor through a newly-installed wireless network. Printing will also be available from these laptops.NEW KID ON THE BLOCK!By Christine Bagley, Curriculum Resources Librarian
Christine Bagley, formerly responsible for Interlibrary Loan Services, has assumed the responsibility of developing the Curriculum Resource Library and providing reference and instructional services to all users of the collection. "My goal is to make life easier for Education majors and Faculty. Some of the ways I hope to accomplish this include
Christine will be working with Sister Sheila O'Brien in the Curriculum Resource Library which is located on the third floor of McKillop Library. Christine may be contacted at 341-2375 or 341-2277. JSTOR ARTS & SCIENCES II COLLECTIONJSTOR has recently announced that it has begun to release titles in the Arts & Sciences II Collection. More than 50 of a projected 100 new titles have been added, in disciplines such as History, Economics, and Asian Studies as well as titles in new disciplines, such as Classics, Archaeology, and African, Latin American, Slavic, and Middle Eastern Studies.With the following new titles, the McKillop Library provides online, full-text access to the complete archive of over 170 scholarly journals.
SIGN UP FOR A WORKSHOP!Call ext. 2289 to register, sign up in person at the Reference Desk at the McKillop Library, or online. All workshops meet in the Electronic Classroom (Room 106) on the first floor.
EBSCOHOST ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER
HELIN CATALOG SEARCHING
EVALUATING INTERNET SITES
BASIC INTERNET SEARCHING
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Sunday 12:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m . Monday-Thursday 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 a.m. Friday 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Library hours will vary for holidays and intersessions. Call ext. OPEN (6736) for current information.
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McKillop Library newsletter will be published each semester to share news from library departments about policies and procedures, the latest acquisitions, databases and technology, training sessions being offered, and other news.
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Exciting new technology has recently been added to update the classroom and give it far greater flexibility. The Information Age is upon us and the McKillop Library is prepared to meet the challenge. Information comes in an ever-growing array of formats: three dimensional objects, print documents, transparencies, online resources, digital pictures, and video to name a few. A visual presenter will make all of these formats viewable in sharp detail to a class of students. The ELMO high-resolution visual presenter is a sophisticated video capture system to display any material from paper documents, 3-D objects, slides, negatives, or transparencies through any TV/Video monitor or other display device. Image rotation as well as downloading and storing captured images to a PC hard drive are but a few of the numerous features. Presentations can be viewed by students while they are going on or recorded and stored for future use. It can even be used for video teleconferencing. Exciting applications for distance education are being explored. In addition, an Epson ceiling-mounted projector that will display full-color images and video will also be installed. It can be connected simultaneously to up to three image sources: two computers or workstation sources, plus one video source, such as the visual presenter, a VCR, DVD player, camcorder or digital camera. It can also be connected to audio for each image source. The classroom will also be equipped with a teaching station, VCR and speakers for maximum flexibility for presentations. Additional workstations have already been added bringing the total to twenty one computer workstations with Internet access. The project is nearly completed, so come by and check out the new classroom during the Spring semester.
ONLINE DATABASE NEWSBy John Lewis, Head of Reference Services
New DatabasesEBSCOhost returnsMany faculty and some students remember that the main periodical database for the McKillop Library prior to entry into the HELIN system was EBSCOhost. After joining HELIN we switched to ProQuest, as this was the database to which HELIN subscribed. After a year long evaluation the entire HELIN system has decided to switch to EBSCO Academic Search Premiere as the main periodical database to best meet the needs of its patrons. Academic Search Premiere is the world's largest scholarly, multidisciplinary, full-text database. Designed specifically for academic institutions, Academic Search Premiere contains full-text for over 3,300 scholarly publications. In addition to full-text it also contains full-page images as well as color embedded images. An Image Collection contains photographs, country and state flags, as well as maps. Academic Search Premiere provides scholarly coverage for all academic areas of study, including the social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, physics, chemistry, fine arts, literature, and medicine. EBSCO also includes links to over 65,000 web sites selected for their scholarly content.Business Source EliteNew also is EBSCO Business Source Elite replacing ABI Inform. Business Source Elite provides full-text coverage of 1,050 publications in the areas of accounting, banking, business, economics, finance, international business, management, marketing and sales. Also included is company information from Dun & Bradstreet on over 3,000,000 companies.CSA Life Sciences CollectionCSA Life Sciences Collection provides access to over 20 life sciences-oriented disciplines. This database covers 1982 to the present and is updated quarterly. Covered topics include Bacteriology, Bioengineering, Biology, Ecology, Genetics, Immunology, Microbiology, Medical & Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Neurosciences, Toxicology, and Virology. Smartlinks back to journals in Academic Search Premiere make much of this database full-text.EconLitThe database of the American Economic Association, EconLit provides scholarly coverage in the areas of accounting, consumer economics, monetary policy, labor, marketing, demographics, and economic theory. Linking to over 220 journals in Academic Search Premiere provides this database with some full-text access.MagillOnLiteratureThe first stop when researching literature MagillOnLiterature covers over 13,000 literary works. Included are book reviews, character profiles, critical essays, author biographies, bibliographies, and plot summaries. MagillOnLiterature replaces the Masterplots CD-ROM supplementing that content with information from the Cyclopedia of World Authors, Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, Magill's Literary Annuals, and Magill Book Reviews. The use of the EBSCO interface makes this database easy to search.World History FullTextWorld History FullText provides a global view of history with content on Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. It contains over 200 full-text titles combining ABC-CLIO's historical abstracts with EBSCO's full text. In addition to history World History FullText also provides coverage of archaeology, art, culture, government, military history, politics, religion and sociology.CQ ResearcherCQ Researcher explores a single issue in-depth each week. There are 44 reports produced each year including four expanded reports. Reports are generally 12,000 words long and strive to be completely objective and balanced on all issues. Content dates back to 1991. Recent topics included such issues as Welfare Reform, Judges and Politics, Privacy Under Attack, Nuclear Waste, Libraries and the Internet, Energy Policy, and Women in Sports.Facts.comFACTS.com brings together complete content from the Facts On File World News Digest since 1980 and selected content from six other core reference databases to answer questions about events, issues, statistics and people of the last 20 years. FACTS.com also delivers in-depth features on "Historic Events" drawn from the 60-year Facts On File archive. Other special features include maps, photographs, historic documents, and overviews of key issues, newsmakers and events since 1980.Databases Switched to EBSCO InterfaceCINAHLCINAHL indexes over 1,200 professional journals covering nursing and related health disciplines. Through links to EBSCO Academic Search it will now contain 265 full-text titles.ERICThe Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) produces this database essential for users researching educational topics. Searching ERIC through the EBSCO interface allows users to connect to over 500 full-text journals in Academic Search Premiere.PsycInfoPsycInfo contains over one million references to psychological literature dating as far back as 1887. Switching PsycInfo to the EBSCO interface allows linking to full text articles thus making the database full text. Smartlinking will provide the user with links to EBSCO Academic Search and online e-journals bringing the total to over 500 scholarly publications.Sociological AbstractsSociological Abstracts is the primary database for coverage of sociology, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. It indexes over 1,640 scholarly journals. Through EBSCO smart links this database will now have access to over 700 journals full-text in Academic Search Premiere.
MCKIILOP LIBRARY ACADEMIC LIASONSThe Library has implemented a liaison program to facilitate communications between the professional librarian and the academic faculty. A librarian has been assigned to each academic department. The goal is to enhance collection development, increase the awareness of faculty needs for teaching and research, and improve services. Please feel free to contact the liaison for your department.
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The Electronic Classroom at the McKillop Library is always jumping this time of year. Classes of freshmen are introduced to the wide range of online resources that they will soon begin to rely on throughout their academic careers. Upperclassmen are given assistance with research strategies for their semester projects. Graduate students are offered instruction on subject-specific databases and off-campus access. Faculty and staff workshops are offered on the EBSCOhost database, searching the library catalog, and navigating the World Wide Web. There's something for everyone and the action takes place in Room 106, the Library's Electronic Classroom.
The McKillop Library has made significant changes to its line-up of online databases this year. Several new databases have been purchased and many databases have been switched to different vendors. The result is more databases for students and faculty to use in their research and also increased user-friendliness. The number of user interfaces has been decreased so that users do not have to learn to use as many interfaces when pursuing their research needs. The database changes are: