New Books

Don't forget to see what's on the New Book Shelf.

ScienceDirect Trial

We currently have access to ScienceDirect College edition until 4/17/09. Here is a link to use from on campus. For those of us working from a geographically remote location please call me and I can set up access for you guys. Please review this database and how it might fit in to our collection of electronic information for our students.

Thanks
Dana

http://www.sciencedirect.com/college

Soc 4 reserves

There are two folders on reserve with articles for a Soc 4 class. One folder had some missing pages that were luckily available in the other folder. The contents of the folders looked like chapters of textbook(s) and photocopied articles. In talking with Shuk, it came up that maybe we could scan the chapters and articles (articles not available on EBSCOhost) and put them on eReserve behind our proxy so students would have to use their library cards to access them. If you have any ideas on this, please feel free to chime in.

GECA Science Class

Students from a GECA science class are all writing papers on the same topic: whether or not the U.S. should continue to fund space exploration. There’s a couple of ways of searching at the reference desk. What I tried is by subject: Outer Space—Exploration including further subdivisions OR using keywords: space exploration. Many appropriate print books are already checked out. We have some that are a little old (but still good for background/historical type info). Luckily we have several eBooks (search inside the books with keywords like funding, funds, financ*, benefit*, wast*, etc.) There is a good Info Plus series book in the reference collection: REF QB 500.262 S624 2009 (use its index to find “benefits” of space exploration, etc.)

Also don’t forget to try EBSCOhost, Opposing Viewpoints and CQ Researcher.