We've made some changes in the way e-resources are displayed on the Concordia Library website.
Staff members at the Concordia Library manage online access to over 100 licensed electronic resources, including full-text article databases, e-book collections, streaming audio/video collections and much more. To manage access to this increasingly complex digital collection in an efficient manner, the library will be implementing a new e-resource management system later this week.
You will notice some visual changes to the way the library’s e-resources are browsed and displayed. To get a sneak peak at the new e-resource finding interface, visit this page. Every effort has been made to replicate current finding functionality (and add new functionality as well), but we must also work within the new system’s parameters.
We welcome any feedback you may have on this change, please email or call if you have questions or comments:
Dan Mirau Library Director Concordia University College of Alberta
Phone: 780.479.9334 Fax: 780.471.6796 http://library.concordia.ab.ca
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
The Cataloguer's New Book Picks
Here are a few new books that caught my eye this week:
Froth!: the Science of Beer / Mark Denny
TP 577 D476 2009
This book explains the history, physics and chemistry of how beer is made in a scientifically sound but accessible way.
Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys / Kay S. Hymowitz
HQ 1090.3 H96 2011
This book examines the way young men have been affected by the social trend of delayed adulthood and an increasingly female-friendly economy.
American Born Chinese / Gene Luen Yang, color by Lark Pien
PZ 7 Y16 A44 2006
This graphic novel brings together the seemingly unrelated stories of Jin Wang (a bullied Chinese-American child), the Monkey King (the fabled ruler of all the monkeys who wants to be hailed as a god) and Danny ( a popular basketball player whose cousin, Chin-Kee, is the ultimate negative Chinese stereotype and is ruining Danny's life).
Russian Fairy Tales / retold by Gillian Avery, with illustrations by Ivan Bilibin
PZ 8 A927 R87 1995
This is a lushly illustrated collection of Russian fairy tales such as Vassilissa the Beautiful and the Witch Baba Yaga and Tsarevich Ivan, the Firebird and the Grey Wolf.
It's a Book / Lane Smith
PZ 7 S399 I87 2010 (Curriculum Library)
In this picture book, a monkey and a mouse explain the features and benefits of a book to a tech savvy jackass.
Froth!: the Science of Beer / Mark Denny
TP 577 D476 2009
This book explains the history, physics and chemistry of how beer is made in a scientifically sound but accessible way.
Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys / Kay S. Hymowitz
HQ 1090.3 H96 2011
This book examines the way young men have been affected by the social trend of delayed adulthood and an increasingly female-friendly economy.
American Born Chinese / Gene Luen Yang, color by Lark Pien
PZ 7 Y16 A44 2006
This graphic novel brings together the seemingly unrelated stories of Jin Wang (a bullied Chinese-American child), the Monkey King (the fabled ruler of all the monkeys who wants to be hailed as a god) and Danny ( a popular basketball player whose cousin, Chin-Kee, is the ultimate negative Chinese stereotype and is ruining Danny's life).
Russian Fairy Tales / retold by Gillian Avery, with illustrations by Ivan Bilibin
PZ 8 A927 R87 1995
This is a lushly illustrated collection of Russian fairy tales such as Vassilissa the Beautiful and the Witch Baba Yaga and Tsarevich Ivan, the Firebird and the Grey Wolf.
It's a Book / Lane Smith
PZ 7 S399 I87 2010 (Curriculum Library)
In this picture book, a monkey and a mouse explain the features and benefits of a book to a tech savvy jackass.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
ebrary adds 16,000 titles
ebrary has added over 16,000 e-books, now offering access to over 70,000 titles. The newly added selection spans all academic subject areas from Amsterdam University Press, Brill Academic Publishers, MIT Press, National Academies Press, Oxford University Press, University of Minnesota Press, World Scientific, and other leading publishers.Explore the ebrary collection brought to you by Concordia Library.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
June 21 is National Aboriginal Day
It's National Aboriginal Day - take a look at the items on display at Concordia Library and celebrate the contribution of Aboriginal Peoples.
Find out more from Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada
Thursday, June 2, 2011
SCOPUS introduces iPhone App
For those of you who can't get enough SCOPUS searching from your desktop computer, Elsevier has released a new iPhone app to allow mobile SCOPUS searching. You can grab the App from iTunes here or read about its functionality on the SCOPUS Mobile FAQ page here.
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