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.

Three New Trial Databases Are Now Active

The library is happy to announce the activation of three new databases trials. Send feedback to reference@csp.edu

Global Issues in Context (GALE) - Issues and countries form the core of this product, which uses resources to explain the historical and contemporary conditions necessary to understand global issues, conflicts and events. Global Issues in Context supports research in a wide variety of subject areas, including sociology, current events, civics, politics, science, economics, cultural/religious studies, women’s studies, human rights, English composition and many more. Trial runs through April 9th.

Ethnographic Video Online - Covers the study of human culture and behavior – more than 750 hours and 1,000 films at completion. The collection covers every region of the world and features the work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more. This first release includes 226 videos totaling roughly 152 hours. Trial runs through April 3rd.

Women and Social Movements, Scholar's Edition - Includes primary historic documents, books, images, scholarly essays, teaching tools, and book and Web site reviews documents the history of women’s activism in public life, and is one of the most heavily visited resources for women’s studies and for U.S. history on the Web. Organized around document projects written by leading scholars, the collection is a powerful research and classroom tool designed to help users develop the skills needed to analyze primary documents and conduct research. Document projects are organized around interpretive questions, each with 20-50 primary documents that address the question. Trial ends March 31st.

Goodbye, BearHunt

QuickSearch via BearHunt will no longer be available beginning May 1st. There are a number of reasons that the library chose to discontinue this federated search service. Most important, as everyone is tightening their belts, BearHunt came at a substantial cost while offering no new content. Also important, usage was low compared to cost. When it first became available, we were excited to try a federated search, but along with other CLIC libraries and the rest of the library world, we’ve realized that the technology needed to support the idea isn’t quite there yet. The relevancy rankings don’t seem to work correctly or consistently, links were frequently broken, searches executed slowly, and the interface left a lot to be desired. We also felt there was a possibility that it was misleading searchers to think they were searching “everything”, while in fact there are a number of both purchased and freely available resources that aren’t included in a BearHunt search. Also, the search is not complete in that it stops at a predetermined time interval instead of continuing until all searches have had a chance to complete. In the end, BearHunt and federated search as it now exists seems at odds with our mission to teach academic research skills tailored to specific situations and inquiries, using the full breadth of our resources. We will look forward to new federated search products with anticipation, especially if they meet our criteria of completeness and have added-value in their presentation.

New Resource Credo Reference is a Great Place to Start Your Research

The library is now subscribed to Credo Reference, the premier Reference database on the market. This is a great place to start your research. Here is the title list. It includes concept maps and an image search in addition to the usual encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations, bilingual dictionaries, and measurement conversions. There are also connections which allow you to jump to some of our other database subscriptions once you're ready to do more in depth research. 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.”

Enter at the URL: http://www.credoreference.com.ezproxy.csp.edu/