The Cataloguer's New Book Picks

Students in the Earth Science 102 class may be interested in some new library resources that may be helpful with their biomes assignment.

Grassland productivity and ecosystem services / edited by Gilles Lemaire, John Hodgson, Abad Chabbi

    QH 541.5 P7 G7128 2011

Sand dunes : conservation, types and desertification / Jessica A. Murphy, editor

    QH 88.5 S26 2011

Biodiversity Hotspots : distribution and protection of conservation priority areas / editors: Frank E. Zachos, Jan Christian Habel

     QH 75 B538 2011

Field guide to freshwater invertebrates of North America / James H. Thorp, D. Christopher Rogers

      QL 365.4 A1 T44 2011

Drought and aquatic ecosystems : effects and responses / P. Sam Lake

       QH 541 L35 2011

Citation Obsession? Get over it!

Citation Obsession? Get over it! interesting article from the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Go on a Blind Date with a Book

Go on a Blind Date with a book from the concordia Library.
The books are all dressed up and ready to be taken out. What will you get - mystery? history? Who knows! Take a chance and see.
Let us know how your date went by posting to the library blog, Facebook, or @librarycuca Twitter feed. Or simply fill out a Rate Your Date form, included with each Blind Date book.

Primary Resources About Slavery

Looking for Primary Resources about the history of slavery? Look at the Slavery, Abolition, and Social Justice database of primary resources from 1490-2007.

If you are connecting from off-campus your User ID is the barcode from your ID card and your PIN is the last 4 digits of your student ID number

Lives of Girls and Women - Resources

Looking for info on Alice Munro's "Lives of Girls and Women"? Use Concordia Library E-Resources:

1) From the library homepage ,click on the E-Resources tab and choose English & Writing from the drop down menu (don't forget to hit the GO button)

2) Click on the link to the Literary Reference Center. If you are off-campus, log in with your library barcode and PIN. Search for Lives of Girls and Women (choose AT Title of Work from the drop-down menu to get the best results.)  Click on Full-text or Where can I find this to locate the article you are interested in.

3) Go back to the English & Writing E-Resources page and click on the link to the

Literature Resource Center. Search for Lives of Girls and Women (choose Name of Work from the options below the search box.) When the results appear, look at the tabs across the top of the page - the one marked Topic & Work Overviews has an entry from Novels for Students that provides a great introduction. The Criticism tab will have more in-depth information. Again, click on the Full-Text link to read the article.

 

4) Check in with the Library Info Desk staff if you would like help with any of these steps or for more research assistance. Contact us via email, telephone, or instant messaging.

 

BioOne goes mobile

"BioOne is pleased to announce the official launch of BioOne Mobile, an optimized website now available to smartphone users. With this new mobile interface, all content from BioOne's 167 journals and book series is available for easy access to faculty, students, and researchers via their iPhone, Android, and Blackberry smartphones.

Because BioOne's optimization is site-wide, there is no app to download or keep updated. Instead, users will be automatically directed to BioOne's mobile site whenever they access bioone.org from a compatible mobile device. Users accessing the site from an iPad or tablet are shown the full site for optimal viewing, but can select the mobile site if they prefer.

Just as on the full BioOne site, users are able to access abstracts and the full text of open access articles without a subscription. Users can also access their account profiles; execute complex searches, sorting by most-recent, most-downloaded, or most-cited articles; and save PDFs for future access.

Users associated with an institutional subscription can easily pair their device with their university's access privileges, giving them access to all subscribed content, whether they are in the library or on-the-go.

BioOne has created a number of resources to assist libraries and researchers using BioOne Mobile. Please visit the Mobile Resources section on our site for more information."

From the Nov. 28 email to customers from BioOne's Marketing Director Nicole Colovos

How to Use Google More Effectively

Ever wanted to use google more effectively to get what you really want.  Here are a few strategies.

http://mashable.com/2011/11/24/google-search-infographic/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29

Statistics Canada to make all online data free

Need Stats? Statistics Canada plans to make all of their online data freely available starting in February 2012. Click here to learn more.

Reformation & Medieval History Research

Is your progress report for Reformation or Medieval History due soon? Find more sources to include in your paper with the help of Concordia Library.

1. Get background information to understand your topic by looking it up in an encyclopedia about that time period.

For example, you can find The Encyclopedia of the Reformation In the library's REFERENCE collection, on the ground floor of the library, the call number is BR 302.8 O93 1996. Or Medieval England an Encyclopedia, call number DA 129 M43 1998.

2. Once you know a bit more about your topic, choose some keywords to search such as the names of important people, or groups of people, involved. To find books, search the library catalogue using these general terms about your topic.

For example, if your topic is how the Reformation led to the development of the Hutterites and other religious groups you use the keywords: Hutterites, Anabaptists, Reformation, John Hutter. Try different combinations of these keywords. Make sure to try both the plural and singular forms of your keywords.

3. To find Articles Open the library's E-Resources page for History and choose an article database to search. I suggest Historical Abstracts and Academic Search Complete. (If you are connecting from off-campus your User ID is the barcode from your ID card and your PIN is the last 4 digits of your student ID number) Use some of the same keywords you used to search the library catalogue. Articles tend to be on very specific topics, so read the article summary (sometimes called an abstract) to make sure that the article is relevant to your project.

For example, searching the keyword "Hutterites" finds many articles but some of them are about Hutterites in North America and not about Hutterites in Europe during the Reformation.

To read the full article, click on the Full Text link. If there is no full text link, click on the "Where can I find this" link to see if Concordia has a copy of the article in another database. If you have any difficulties, contact the Info Desk for assistance. We'd love to help you find some good sources for your essay.

The October issue of The Corner Shelf is up on the library website. Find out about our Librarian Trading Cards, Canadian Library Month Contest, and the upcoming Governor General's Awards.