Group Study Room Policy

Starting Monday, August 30th, library staff will once again be monitoring the 4 Group Study Rooms on the main floor of the library. Here are the rules:
• Sign up with your group members at the Reference Desk
• 2 person minimum – Single persons will be asked to study elsewhere, no exceptions
• 2 hour time limits per group
• CSP students have priority

This policy is to ensure that everyone has a fair chance of using the study rooms. There are plenty of areas for single-person study on the main and lower levels in chairs and study carrels, and there are 4 Individual Study Rooms directly across the hall from the Group Study Rooms which are not monitored.

New Subject Guides Are Here!

The Library is excited to roll out its newly designed Subject Guides. Not only do they have a clean new look, but they have been reorganized to make it easier to know where to start your research on a particular topic. Some new features of the Subject Guides include:

• - Suggested database lists are shorter, giving you a better idea where to start your research
• - Easier navigation by tabs to different areas (Articles, Books, Citation Guides, etc.)
• - Find materials newly added to the CSP Library in a particular subject
• - Follow the newest news and research in your field via automatically updated RSS feeds
• - Look for tabs with content specific to your subject
• - Some subject areas have guides for specific classes
• - Get in touch with the library liaison in your area
• - All Subject Guides are available in one location: http://libraryguides.csp.edu/

We are very excited to serve you this academic year. Let us know what we can do to help you in your research process, whether it be orienting yourself to the library's resources, conducting "pre-search" on a topic, finding reliable Web sites, tweaking search terms, locating a full-text article from a citation, or anything else you may need along the way.

Important Library Passwords

To login to CLICnet, the library catalog, your username is your first and last name with a space between them. Your password is your library barcode. Your barcode is the 14 digit number on your CSP ID that begins with the number 2 - Not Your L Number. Common uses for CLICnet include requesting books from other campuses, viewing online Course Reserves, or renewing books online.

To login to databases from off-campus, your username and password are the same as your network login which you use to login to the Student Portal. If your network login isn't allowing you to use databases from off-campus or login to the Student Portal, contact the Help Desk.

The library catalog and the subscription databases are two different systems. These are the only two logins needed to use library services.

Welcome Week: Library Hours

Welcome Week (August 22 - 29) Library Hours are as follows:
Sunday 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Monday - Wednesday 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Thursday 7:45 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Friday 7:45 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sunday 1:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Regular Academic Year Library Hours begin on Monday, August 30:
Library Hours
Monday - Thursday 7:45 a.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Friday 7:45 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sunday 1:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.

Reference Desk Hours
Monday - Thursday 10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Friday 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Saturday 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sunday 4:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Summer Library Hours

Summer is here and that means reduced hours at the library. Here are our hours from May 17th to August 21st:

Monday - Thursday: 9-6

Friday: 9-3

Saturday & Sunday: Closed

We will also be closed for Memorial Day and Independence Day holidays Monday, May 31st and Monday, July 5th. Click here for our Welcome Week hours Sunday, August 22nd through Sunday, August 29th.

Where To Find Our New Books

Want to know what new books and videos you could swing by and pick up from the CSP Library? Simply go to http://delicious.com/csplibrary to see a list of our newest adds, each with its own link into the CLICnet catalog. A link will live on the library's home page under the delicious icon (seen to the left). You can limit by discipline tags in the right hand column, and subscribe to RSS feeds at the bottom of pages so you can know when we add a new book in the areas you are interested in.

Medical and Health Databases

Concordia's Medical and Health databases are now conveniently collected together on one Web page.

http://concordia.csp.edu/Library/research/databases/medicalhealth.html

These include databases meant for health professionals, consumers, and researchers, and run the gamut from general to highly technical. For further assistance, contact reference@csp.edu.