Monday, February 16, 2009

Good start to the term

The BSC Library has had a good start the term! We have done several orientation session to classes in such diverse areas as biology, finance, psychology, and speech, to name a few. The Library has a display on the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, and our Guy Hubbs was instrumental in bringing the noted Lincoln scholar, Lawrence Frederick Kohl from the University of Alabama, for the Common Hour event on February 16th. Keep us in mind as you develop your plans for the remainder of the term, we are happy to assist you in your research and/or class assignments in anyway! Have a good week! Steve Laughlin

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

The BSC Library is offering a trial of three H.W.Wilson databases this month. H.W.Wilson is an icon in the library community for 110 years, H.W. Wilson is dedicated to providing the highest-quality web and print resources in the world. H.W. Wilson products are familiar to generations of library users as standard tools in college, public, school, and professional libraries worldwide.

The first trial database is Art Full Text. This database offers full text plus abstracts and indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications—now with expanded coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicalsThis database offers full text plus abstracts and indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications—now with expanded coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.

The second database is Book Review Digest Plus. A library classic for nearly 100 years, Book Review Digest Plus now has select full text —dramatically expanding its scope with entries drawn from over 8,000 periodicals covered by other Wilson databases. With coverage back to 1983, Book Review Digest Plus indexes reviews of current fiction and non-fiction, and provides review excerpts and over 100,000 full text reviews. Every book in Book Review Digest Plus appears with all of its reviews together. A single book can have as little as one review citation and as much as a descriptive summary and many reviews with excerpts and full text, depending upon the coverage the book received in the reviewing literature. The database includes children’s books as well as books for adults and young adults.

The third database is Library Literature & Information Science Full Text. A unique working and teaching tool created by librarians for librarians. Reflecting the latest trends in a rapidly evolving field, this database indexes English and foreign-language periodicals, selected state journals, conference proceedings, pamphlets, books, and library school theses, plus over 300 books per year.

Let us know what you think of these products!

Steve Laughlin

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Trial for Choice Reviews Online

The BSC Library is conducting a trial of Choice Reviews Online. Choice Reviews is targeted at academic libraries and is the premier source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education. More than 35,000 librarians, faculty, and key decision makers rely on Choice magazine and Choice Reviews Online for collection development and scholarly research. Choice reaches almost every undergraduate college and university library in the United States.
Each year Choice publishes more than 7,000 reviews that are:
Timely - typically the first comment on scholarly publications
Authoritative - written by selected experts in the subject
Concise - brief but thorough, providing information and recommendations
Easy to Use - logical arrangement, including data needed to order the item reviewed
Let us know what you think of Choice!
Steve Laughlin

Monday, February 2, 2009

Just the facts - from Facts on File trial!

Welcome back to school!! We have several database trials this month, starting with several Facts on File databases:

American History Online American Women's History Online African-American History Online American Indian History Online Modern World History Online Ancient and Medieval History Online Science Online Health Reference Center World Atlas Curriculum Resource Center Curriculum Resource Center: Junior Edition Bloom's Literary Reference Online Ferguson's Career Guidance Center Today's Science The World News Digest Issues & Controversies Issues & Controversies in American History

Try these and let us know what you think. Have a great spring term!!

Steve Laughlin