Check this out – Changes
to the Library Resources web pages and New Resources!!
Hey everyone, take some time to check out what’s new with
our Library Resources. First, the
Library Resources and Research & Writing Toolkit pages have officially
moved from the student wiki over to the ccconline.org website:
http://www.ccconline.org/Library_Resources. Once you’re on the main page of the Library
Resources, you’ll also notice a link to the EBSCO article databases. So, in addition to being able to access the
databases once you’re logged in to D2L, you can also click on the EBSCO link,
login with your S# and password and get into the databases right from the
Library Resources page.
Inside D2L, you will also notice a change to the Helpful
Links widget, with just one link to Library Resources instead of several. Click on the Library Resources page, and
you’ll see the same page that you see out on the ccconline.org website; you
just won’t need to login to access the databases.
Please take some time to check out the article databases as
well; we now have some additional databases – including CINAHL (nursing and health science database),
History Reference Center, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection,
Science Reference Center, Points of View, Consumer Health Complete, and
more. We still have the always wonderful
Academic Search Premier, and Business Source Premier. Visit the
Library
Article Databases Tutorial to see descriptions of all of our databases.
Note also that CCCOnline is now a member of AskAcademic, the
24/7 academic Ask-a-Librarian service offered through the Colorado State
Library. Check out the AskAcademic
widget on the Library Resources main page.
Students can still email me,
cccolibrarian@ccconline.org,
with their questions; I will have more first-hand knowledge of specific
research assignments in their courses, but do encourage your students to use
the AskAcademic reference service. The
service is manned by trained reference librarians from the AskAcademic member
libraries – visit the AskAcademic website to learn more:
http://www.askacademic.org/ and here’s a
list of the participating libraries:
http://www.askacademic.org/participating.html. CCCOnline pays a small fee to the Colorado
State Library and mans the virtual reference desk for 2 hours a week in return
for great reference and information service to both students and faculty.
Be sure to check back to the Library Resources web pages
from time to time - I have some ideas
for new features and will be adding those as I have time. Have interesting
ideas related to anything library related?
Have questions? Email me at
mary.cash@cccs.edu.
Thanks,
Mary Cash, Instructional Online Librarian, CCCOnline
