Welcome Week Fall 2017

Kickoff Welcome Week with the Library @ Library Commons! 💃

Monday, August 21-Friday, August 25! 

(Located at 5339 Didesse Drive)

New Resources from the Library-PEDro

PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database. PEDro is a free database of over 36,000 randomised trials, systematic reviews, and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy.

For each trial, review or guideline, PEDro provides the citation details, the abstract and a link to the full text, where possible.

All trials on PEDro are independently assessed for quality. These quality ratings are used to quickly guide users to trials that are more likely to be valid and to contain sufficient information to guide clinical practice.

New Resources from the Library-Joanna Briggs Institute Evidence Based Practice Database

JBI is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading providers of evidence-based information from across the globe.

This comprehensive database covers a wide range of medical, nursing, and health science specialties and includes a unique suite of information that’s been analyzed, appraised, and prepared by expert reviewers at JBI so you can integrate the world’s best evidence into your practice.

New Resources from the Library- SPORTDiscus

SPORTDiscus is the premier source of literature for sports and sports medicine studies, providing full-text content from many respected journals. It is an essential tool for health professionals, researchers and students, providing extensive coverage in the areas of fitness, health, and sport studies. This authoritative database contains full text for many of the most used journals in the SPORTDiscus index with no restriction.

New Resources from the Library – Nutrition Reference Center

Dietitians and nutritionists require evidence-based, accurate, and actionable information on best practices to ensure success in the field. Now, With Nutrition Reference Center, the premier point-of-care tool designed specifically for dietitians and nutritionists, users can access trusted resources for education, practice, and research to provide their patients with the highest level of care possible. Users can access unique content on everything from condition-specific diets to dietetics skills and practices written by a world-class team of nutritionists and dietitians.

Open Access eBooks on JSTOR!

Over 600+ Open Access eBooks, from esteemed presses such as University of California Press and University of Michigan Press, are available on JSTOR!

The content is available to anyone for use and there are no limits on PDF downloads or printing!

ALTA Religion Database with ALTASerials

We are pleased to announce that ALTA Religion Database with ATLASerials is now available!!Produced by the American Theological Library Association (ALTA), this database provides coverage dating back to 1908 with indexing for some journal titles extending back into the 19th century. Full-text journal articles and reviews are selected for inclusion by leading religion scholars.

Content includes:

• Full-text articles and reviews from more than 300 journals
• More than 1.8 million records
• Indexing of more than 1,800 journals, over 640 of which are currently being indexed
• More than 667,400 journal article records, 267,400 essay records, 607,500 review records, and 300,500 book records.

ALTA Religion Database with ATLASerials can be accessed through the EBSCO All Databases list or searched through EBSCO Discovery.

DynaMed Plus

We are pleased to announce that DynaMed was upgraded to DynaMed Plus!! DynaMed Plus provides instant access to the most current clinical evidence and gives answers to the clinical questions quickly and easily. For precise search results, they offer auto-suggest, direct-to-section search results, summary display, and access to relevant images and calculators. DynaMed Plus includes specialty content in the 22 areas such as allergy, cardiology, critical care, etc. DynaMed Plus is also available on tablets or smartphone (iPhone, iPad or Android devices).


Data USA

 

Have you heard about Data USA? Data USA provides you visualized information about issues across the United States; places in America-towns, cities, and states; occupations-teachers, welders, or Web developers; industries-where they are thriving, declining and their interconnectedness to each other, and education and skills-where is the best place to live with your job or what skill is needed for the job. The information is based on public US government data, benefiting citizen, business and government.

Celebrate National Library Week!!

NPR's Book Concierge

Have you heard about NPR's Book Concierge?? It is a book list that you can explore 260 titles recommended by NPR staff and critics. There are 29 filters to narrow down the categories you're interested in, such as Staff Picks, Cookbooks & Food, Eye-Opening Reads, It's All Geek To Me, Ladies First, Tales From Around The World, etc. Yes, the filters sound very funny, but don't worry, there are familiar names like Mysteries & Thrillers, Nonficition, and Science Fiction & Fantasy!! And they can be combined.

R2 Digital Library

We are pleased to introduce a new eBook platform---R2 Digital Library!! The R2 Digital Library offers comprehensive health science collections of medical, nursing and allied health eBooks from key health science publishers.

Open Source Textbooks Resources

Have you heard about Open source textbooks? They are textbooks licensed under an open copyright license and made available online to be freely used by students, teachers, and everyone. Many open textbooks are distributed in either print, e-book, or audio formats that may be downloaded or purchased at little or no cost (wiki).

Library Curriculum Builder for Moodle

We are pleased to introduce Library Curriculum Builder!! It is a new plugin tool for Moodle that allows instructors to provide access to assigned class readings while maintaining copyright compliance by linking directly from a Moodle course to journal articles, ebooks, and other online resources in our library's databases.

College Library & Library Commons Hours

2016 Spring Semester Hours

Mon -Thu: 8:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Fri: 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Sat & Sun CLOSED
(Effective January 19, 2016)

 

A New Journal Package Arrived!!

We are pleased to announce that the College Library has access to a new journal package; LWW (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins) Nursing and Health Professions Premier Collection. The collection can be searched in EBSCO Discovery or browsed and searched through the "Ovid/Lippincott Journals" link in the Portal (Library Resources - Research).

The collection of top nursing journals used by nurses, nursing students and health professionals, includes the following titles.

Library & Commons Holiday Schedule

Dec. 18 (Graduation): We close at 11:00am.
Dec. 17 - Jan. 18 (Winter Break): We open 8am-5pm Mon-Thu and 8am-4:40pm Fri.
Regular Hours resume Jan. 19 (First day of classes)

CLOSED:
Christmas Eve: Dec. 24
Christmas Day: Dec. 25
New Year's Eve: Dec. 31
New Year's Day: Jan. 1
Martin Luther's King Day: Jan. 18

New EBSCO eBook Viewer

 

We are pleased to introduce the new EBSCO eBook Viewer!! When you discover and download EBSCO eBooks, the new viewer provides features:

• Support for scrolling through the entire eBook to find relevant information
• Collapsible side panel that brings content front and center
• Support for your needs with cite, note, export and dictionary tools
• Email and save tools that enable you to take chapters or pages directly to the viewer
• Quick access to download the entire eBook for further reading
• Growing number of titles available in both PDF and EPUB formats.

 



Nursing Reference Center Plus Mobile App

The College Library is pleased to introduce the new Nursing Reference Center Plus Mobile App!!

The app provides:

• Information about diseases and conditions
• Evidence-base care sheets
• Content on nursing best practices and skills
• Robust drug information
• Videos and images to aid in patient care

With features meeting the needs:

• Bookmarking favorite topics and searches
• Viewing recent search history
• Ability to save notes on favorite topics
• Print and email content directly from a device
• Fast download

 

The app can be downloaded from the iTunes app store for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, and Google Play for Android devices.

User Guides

• How to Download
• How to Use (FAQs)

WELCOME WEEK!!

The College will kick off the fall 2015 semester with Welcome Week, Monday, August 24 - Friday, August 28!!

MONDAY (10:30 am - 4pm Library Commons)
FREE BURGERS, mechanical bull riding, photo booth and FREE T-SHIRTS

TUESDAY (10:30 am - 12:30pm Library Commons)
FREE HOTDOGS, frozen yogurt, jousting game and give-aways

WEDNESDAY (10:30 am - 12:30pm Library Commons)
FREE PIZZA, cotton candy, snowballs, a college feud game, and a chance to learn about student organizations on campus

THURSDAY (7:30 am - 9:30pm, 12 noon Library Commons)
Breakfast plus have lunch with the President

FRIDAY (10:30 am - 12:30pm Library Commons)
FREE SUBWAY SUBS and bring your balloons for a water balloon fights