New Policy for Group Study Rooms: Sign Up @ the Reference Desk

Due to high demand for study rooms, a new policy will take effect on Monday, November  23rd. This new policy's purpose is a fairer distribution of study room time among a greater number of users. The new policy entails:

• - You now must sign up to use the 4 person study rooms.


• - To sign up, stop at the Reference Desk. You will be asked for ID. If you are a Concordia student, make sure to show your Concordia ID instead of your government-issued ID.


• - Priority for the rooms will go to Concordia students. Check at the Ref Desk for the next available room.


• - You can sign up for 2 hours at a time per group.


• - Minimum group size is 2/Maximum group size is 4.


• - You can still reserve the rooms in advance; now this can be done at the Reference Desk.

We hope this will encourage people who have given up hope of getting access to a study room to give it another try.

Free Books!

The library has a few shelves of extra books to give away for free. You can find them right through the entrance and a little to your right, on the first shelving unit facing the Pearson Commons.

Look at Our New Trial: AP Images

From the AP Images Website:

"AP Images, a division of The Associated Press, is one of the world's largest collections of historical and contemporary imagery. Browse AP's comprehensive archive with millions of images in entertainment, sports, news, archival and creative content.

AP Images collaborates with content and global image partners, offering immediate access to more than 6 million entertainment, sports, news and lifestyle photographs."

To give it a try, follow this link. Then call or email the CSP Reference Desk for a username and password: (651) 641-8812 | reference@csp.edu

New Trial: Credo Reference

We've arranged for a free trial of Credo Reference, which includes concept maps and an image search in addition to the usual encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations, bilingual dictionaries, and measurement conversions. From their Website:

"Credo Reference is a full-text online reference service. Our collection includes over three million entries from hundreds of well-regarded titles from some of world's the best reference publishers. Credo’s collection is intelligently integrated with millions of cross-references and contains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy, science to Shakespeare and law to literature."

Try Pop Culture Universe

Pop Culture Universe: Icons | Idols | Ideas (PCU) is an authoritative, yet irresistible, digital library of information on American and world popular culture, past and present—in a package as dynamic as the topic it covers.

Built on hundreds of award-winning titles for all levels of researchers, PCU provides a safe haven for investigating topics that appeal to students—without the bias, advertising, suggestive content, or questionable authorship of commercial or fan sites.

This is available for free to Concordia users until mid-November. Let us know what you think. http://ezproxy.csp.edu/login?url=http://pop.greenwood.com/

Zotero: A Free Tool to Manage Your Research Sources

Zotero is a free add-on for the Firefox Web browser which allows you to manage your research resources. Save citation information and URLs for books, articles, Web pages, images, videos, sound files and other media, all accessible from your Web browser. See for yourself:

Access e-Book Collections From One Location

The CSP Library's e-Books can now be accessed from one location! Look for the e-Books link on the library's home page under the "Books, Media, & More" section.

Two of Concordia's e-Book resources, Oxford Reference Online and Gale Virtual Reference Library, focus on reference, while the other two focus on regular books like you would check out from the lower level of the library. NetLibrary is our largest collection, and covers a wide array of subjects with current titles. The ACLS Humanities E-Books collection also covers a wide array of subjects, but focuses more on historically significant titles.