Saturday, August 29, 2009

Library Brings JSTOR™ to LBCC

Libraries worldwide are making a transition from print to digital collections of magazines and newspapers. JSTOR has emerged as the most stable and reliable archive of digitized scholarly content. Its many collecting categories contain pdf photographic images of each issue of each journal.

LBCC Library is pleased to introduce JSTOR’s Language and Literature Collection and its Arts & Sciences I Collection to the campus community. They feature a total of 119 journals in 21 subject disciplines:

• Core journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences

• Titles in ecology, mathematics, and statistics

• A range of core journals in diverse fields of literary criticism selected with the help of the Modern Language Association and including PMLA

• Among the titles included are Political Science Quarterly, College English, American Literature, Journal of Black Studies, American Journal of Sociology, American Journal of Mathematics, and many others

To read more about the JSTOR archive visit http://www.JSTOR.org ; to see the specific titles and years included in each collection connect to http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/archives/collections.jsp.

Get started now with your own JSTOR searching through the library’s database page ; click on “L,” then “Language and Literature Collection (JSTOR)

For more information contact: Nenita Buenaventura, Access Services and Electronic Resources Librarian,nbuenaventura@lbcc.edu

Library Update #65

Good News for Challenging Times

In his message of August 11 President/Superintendent Oakley described the many programs that have been affected by the state budget catastrophe and the impact that is being felt by the campus community. It’s a sobering, disheartening picture, but despite all the foreboding, the processes and inherent rewards of teaching and learning will continue. We in the library are especially thankful to be able to offer our student, staff and faculty customers some good news for the year ahead.

• We are extremely fortunate that both campuses now are equipped with beautiful, updated and welcoming library buildings; they have the infrastructure, the connectivity, and the range of information resources that can serve everyone’s research needs
• The library is working to maintain service hours in the face of eroding support; students can depend on us for a spacious, comfortable place to study that’s available when they need it
• We welcome new adjunct librarians join our staff this fall bringing with them the enthusiasm, energy, and fresh perspectives of new graduates
• Though support for buying new books always is uncertain, the campus can depend on the library to continue to provide an excellent array of web-based reference tools and to make them available to its customers anytime and anywhere from any web-enabled computer

Transcending all of these positives, though, is the commitment of the library and its faculty, staff, and student employees to service excellence. Whether it’s in the classroom, at the reference desk, at the check-out counter, or behind the scenes where materials are ordered and cataloged, the library’s people make the crucial difference that will sustain us all through tenuous times into recovery.

For more information contact: Dele Ukwu, Library Department Head dukwu@lbcc.edu

Library Update #66

Library Brings JSTOR™ to LBCC

Libraries worldwide are making a transition from print to digital collections of magazines and newspapers. JSTOR has emerged as the most stable and reliable archive of digitized scholarly content. Its many collecting categories contain pdf photographic images of each issue of each journal.

LBCC Library is pleased to introduce JSTOR’s Language and Literature Collection and its Arts & Sciences I Collection to the campus community. They feature a total of 119 journals in 21 subject disciplines:

* Core journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences
* Titles in ecology, mathematics, and statistics
* A range of core journals in diverse fields of literary criticism selected with the help of the Modern Language Association and including PMLA
* Among the titles included are Political Science Quarterly, College English, American Literature, Journal of Black Studies, American Journal of Sociology, American Journal of Mathematics, and many others

To read more about the JSTOR archive visit www.JSTOR.org; to see the specific titles and years included in each collection connect to http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/archives/collections.jsp

Get started now with your own JSTOR searching through the library’s database page http://lib.lbcc.edu/databases.html ; click on "J," then "JSTOR Language and Literature Collection"

For more information contact: Nenita Buenaventura, Access Services and Electronic Resources Librarian.

Library Update #65

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Library Services that Enhance Teaching and Learning

Each year we welcome new colleagues to LBCC, and our student community is ever-changing. So, for those who were not here when we announced them, and for those who may not remember, the library would like to call your attention to some previous Library Updates that are still as relevant today as they were when they first appeared:

“Information Literacy: Today Student Success Depends Upon It”

“LBCC Faculty and Staff, Borrow Books and Media at CSULB Library!”

”Student-Tested, Professor-Approved Web Resources that Work”

”Textbooks and the Library. What Can Students Expect?”

A full listing of previous Library Updates can be found at http://lib.lbcc.edu/updates/updates.html

For more information contact: Dele Ukwu, Library Department Head dukwu@lbcc.edu

Library Update #64

Friday, August 21, 2009

Library Services that Enhance Teaching and Learning

Good News Bears Repeating

Each year we welcome new colleagues to LBCC, and our student community is ever-changing. So, for those who were not here when we announced them, and for those who may not remember, the library would like to call your attention to some previous Library Updates that are still as relevant today as they were when they first appeared:

"Information Literacy: Today Student Success Depends Upon It" http://lbcclib.blogspot.com/2008/08/information-literacy-today-student.html


"LBCC Faculty and Staff, Borrow Books and Media at CSULB Library!" http://lbcclib.blogspot.com/2008/04/lbcc-faculty-and-staff-borrow-books-and.html


"Student-Tested, Professor-Approved Web Resources that Work"
http://lbcclib.blogspot.com/2008/02/student-tested-professor-approved-web.html


"Textbooks and the Library. What Can Students Expect?" http://lbcclib.blogspot.com/2008/09/textbooks-and-library-what-can-students.html

A full listing of previous Library Updates can be found at http://lib.lbcc.edu/updates/updates.html

For more information contact: Dele Ukwu, Interim Library Department Head

Library Update #64

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Library Announces Enhancements to Science Online from Facts on File™

New content and features have been added to the library’s Science Online database :

• Scope of coverage expanded to include new “core” subject areas
+ Marine science
+ Chemistry
+ Physics

• Hundreds of new color illustrations added, plus 60 new photographs

• Over 440 new essays include topics such as synthetic foods, chemistry of water pollution, ocean currents, household energy use

• An Advanced Search page offers many options for easily limiting search results

Science Online is one of a library of curriculum-oriented databases from Facts on File™ that are accessible free to LBCC students and faculty because of a subscription paid by the library; read about them all out at http://www.fofweb.com/subscription/, then return to http://lib.lbcc.edu/databases.html# to select one and connect to it.

For more information contact: Nenita Buenaventura, Access Services & Electronic Resources Librarian nbuenaventura@lbcc.edu

Library Update #63

Library Announces Enhancements to Science Online from Facts on File™

New content and features have been added to the library’s Science Online database http://lib.lbcc.edu/databases.html#s :

* Scope of coverage expanded to include new “core” subject areas
o Marine science
o Chemistry
o Physics
* Hundreds of new color illustrations added, plus 60 new photographs
* Over 440 new essays include topics such as synthetic foods, chemistry of water pollution, ocean currents, household energy use
* An Advanced Search page offers many options for easily limiting search results

Science Online is one of a library of curriculum-oriented databases from Facts on File™ that are accessible free to LBCC students and faculty because of a subscription paid by the library; read about them all out at http://www.fofweb.com/subscription/ , then return to http://lib.lbcc.edu/databases.html to select one and connect to it.

For more information contact: Nenita Buenaventura, Access Services & Electronic Resources Librarian

Library Update #63