Library Hosts Book Club

Do you love to read and talk about books? Have you been thinking about joining a book club, but haven’t found an opportunity that works for you? Would you like to get to know co-workers outside of your department? If the answer is yes, then you’re in luck!

The CSP Library will be hosting a “for fun” book club open to Faculty and Staff. Day and time to meet will be determined by what best fits the schedule for the majority of attendees. Atonement by Ian McEwan has been chosen as the initial book, but subsequent titles will be picked by the group members.

If you’re interested in participating, please contact Greg Argo (argo@csp.edu) or Jeanine Gatzke (gatzke@csp.edu) by January 30th. We’re shooting to have the first meeting near the end of February. And happy reading!

Your Library Record and the CLICnet Catalog will be Unavailable on Tuesday, January 13th

Please expect an entire day of downtime to the library system and CLICnet library catalog on January 13th while a hardware migration is in progress. This means:

-Holds can't be removed for late or lost books because fines will not be able to be accessed or collected; therefore, if you have a library hold on your record on January 13th, you will not be able to register on January 13th.

-You will not be able to search for materials and make requests via the CLICnet catalog.

-You will not be able to place ILL requests.

-No overdue or courtesy notices will be sent out on the 13th; they will be sent out on the 14th instead.

-You will not be able to renew materials.

-You will still be able to check out books from the Concordia library with your Concordia ID.

-Library Databases will still be available.

Thanks for your patience and understanding while CLICnet is upgraded to new servers.

Dr. Tom Trapp Book Signing Party

The Department of Religion and Theology will host a book-signing party for Dr. Tom Trapp on Tuesday, Dec. 2, at noon in the library, for his recently published translation of Martin Luther's Theology: A Contemporary Interpretation by Oswald Bayer.

Student Response System--'Clickers'

A Turning Technologies representative will be on campus July 9 at 9 am in LTC 219. If you can make time, please join us!

This student response system is designed to help engage the computer generation. It can be used for everything from taking attendance, checking if students understood the reading, verifying if students understood the main concepts, giving you a sense of students' base knowledge, etc. The two Semester Research project managed by the Reed Group, LLC in partnership with Thomson Learning, Turning Technologies and the University of Illinois found that 87% of students were more likely to attend class and 72% more students were likely to participate in class.

Trials!

2 New Trials:
CQ Global Researcher and IBISWorld

Access these new trials directly from our trial databases page.

CQ Global Researcher: Modeled after the award-winning CQ Researcher, CQ Global Researcher provides students with definitive, in-depth coverage of global affairs from a number of international viewpoints. Available exclusively online, CQ Global Researcher offers focused, readable, single-topic reports on vital world issues.  During this trial CQ Global reports are available through our CQ Researcher platform, check the right hand sidebar.

IBISWorld: "...provides independent, accurate, comprehensive, and up to date research on over 700 industries, including statistics, analysis and forecasts. We also have reports on  8000 companies, as well as Risk Rating Reports on every industry."

June 23, Monday

On Monday, June 23 the library will open at noon, not 9.  Due to a power outage, we will be opening later.

New library hours

Beginning July 7, the library will have new hours:

Monday-Thursday: 9-6

Friday: 9-5

Saturday & Sunday: Closed