Thanksgiving Weekend

Hello Faculty,

The Library’s Catalog will be down November 28 – November 30, which means you will not be able to access the catalog to look for books. Sorry for any inconvenience.

The Library hours for the for the Week of Thanksgiving are as follows:

Monday November 25 – Tuesday November 26: 7:20am – 10:30pm

Wednesday November 27: 7:20am – 5:30pm

Thursday November 28 – Saturday November 30: CLOSED

Sunday December 1: 3:00pm – 9:00pm

Hi Faculty ,

The library currently has over 1400 eBooks available to be downloaded. In addition, the library will be experimenting with a 2 month trial of Ebsco host’s eBook Academic Subscription Collection of over 160,000 titles, in mid-October.

The library has created a short tutorial to demonstrate how to download an eBook from Ebsco. Please be sure to create an Ebsco account and download the necessary reader for your particular device (desktop, tablet or Kindle). Unfortunately, if you are using the new Windows’ Surface tablet, there are currently some compatibility issues but we are looking for a work-around.

Once the eBook Academic Subscription Collection is available, please investigate the content and provide the library with feedback regarding your impressions.

Feel free to contact the Library if you need assistance.

Finding Print Periodicals in the Catalog

Hello Faculty,

You and your students now have the ability to identify articles from the library's print periodicals, which may be relevant to a particular topic in your research.The following print journals have been added to the catalog: 

•  Journal of Pentecostal Theology (completed)
• Leader to Leader (completed)
• Journal of Psychology & Theology (almost complete)
• Harvard Business Review (in-process)

 Here are a couple of tips for accessing the journals:

• Use the “Keyword” and “Subject” tabs, but avoid using the “Author” tab as there are too many authors within a periodical to be able to use this feature
• “Keyword” searches will return results which have the keyword located anywhere in the record (title, subject, article titles, etc.)
• “Subject” searches only return results which have your term in the subject field.
• To limit your search to periodicals only choose the “Mixed Material” type and then use the “Keyword” or “Subject” tabs.
• To see a list of the periodicals - Change the “Material Type” drop-down to “Mixed Material” and then click the “Series” tab or type the name of the particular periodical and click “Keyword”
• Some print periodicals are also available in one of our databases. Preview the record under the “Publishing Info” section and in the “Format” field to see if there are instructions for where to locate the article.
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Faculty Brunch

I have provided links for Trillian (free IM service), the Information request form, and the ACRL Standards. I have also provided links for the PowerPoint presentations in Google drive. Please, feel free to comment on any topic related to information literacy or changes happening in the library. Hopefully the IL presentation has opened the door for more discussion on how to prepare our students for a lifetime of learning, as well as, suggestions for how to best meet the requirements of our accrediting body.
Grace to You,
Gary

Here are the library staff Trillian accounts:

Gary - lpclibrary
Keith - keithd310
Michaela - mjamichaela

Trillian Download

Library - Information & Resource Request Form (Found in the Library section on Life's website)

ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education 

Google Drive:

• Presentation #1 

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7o2y3uzcFDvNE9pamhfS3pZS1E/edit?usp=sharing

• Presentation #2 

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7o2y3uzcFDvbnJQUVEyTVB2V2s/edit?usp=sharing 

Useful Product - ZOTERO

Hello faculty,

In an effort to help Life students become more adept at handling information ethically, the library continues to look for helpful resources, which will facilitate what students are already learning in their courses. The library has identified Zotero as a great resource to help students (and useful for faculty as well) grow in their ability to cite sources, create bibliographies and organize their research.  

There are many bibliographic tools available, but Zotero is one of the better free resources on the market. Zotero allows one to download bibliographic information from the web (or manually enter print resources), organize the information into folders, attach multiple notes to the bibliographic record, attach electronic documents to each record, apply tags for easy retrieval, link similar records, and share one's information with others. Zotero is designed for Firefox, but works well with Chrome and Safari browsers (note that Internet Explorer is not included).

Link to Download Zotero

Tutorial Video