Saturday, September 26, 2009

New Features Speed Access to Career Resources

A powerful new feature has just been added to the Library’s Career Guidance Center database. Users can now access the most viewed, e-mailed, and saved records in the database and thereby gain insights into what jobs and career topics are being researched most heavily.

There’s new content in the Career Guidance Center too, with updated job profiles for casinos and casino hotels. The gaming industry has created more than 1 million new jobs nationwide. Commercial casinos alone employ some 350,000, and over the past decade the casino workforce has grown by nearly 80 percent. Now students will have a convenient place to turn for accurate, up to date information on this exciting career field.

The trillion dollar Retail and Wholesale Industry also has been the focus of new and updated job information in Career Guidance Center. Users can find out about employment opportunities in sales and merchandising, IT, marketing, finance, and customer service.

To experience the Career Guidance Center point your web browser to the library home page. Click on “Articles and Databases” on the left side of the screen, then scroll down to Career Guidance Center/Feguson’s Facts on File and click on that.

(Important note: to log in from off campus you must first be authenticated as an LBCC user by clicking on “off campus access” and logging in with your campus id).

For more information contact Nenita Buenaventura goodventure04@gmail.com




Library Update #68

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Improved Functionality Speeds Literary Research

Gale’s Literature Resource Center is a powerful and comprehensive tool for literary criticism and interpretation, author biography, and discussion of themes and genres. It’s available to LBCC students, staff, and faculty, as are all of the library’s subscription databases, through our website. When logging in from off-campus be sure to authenticate yourself by clicking on the “off campus access” button.

What’s new in Literature Resource Center? A new interface provides:

• Improved subject indexing and faceted searching
• Printing, e-mailing, and exporting ability
• Text-to-audio feature and article translations
• Easy and intuitive bookmarking
• Citation generator and exporting to End Note, ProCite, RefWorks and Reference Manager
• Cross-search capability

For more information contact Nenita Buenaventura, Access Services and Electronic Resources Librarian goodventure04@gmail.com

Library Update #67

Improved Functionality Speeds Literary Research

Gale’s Literature Resource Center is a powerful and comprehensive tool for literary criticism and interpretation, author biography, and discussion of themes and genres. It’s available to LBCC students, staff, and faculty, as are all of the library’s subscription databases, through our website http://lib.lbcc.edu/databases.html#l When logging in from off-campus be sure to authenticate yourself by clicking on the "off campus access" button.

What’s new in Literature Resource Center? A new interface provides:

* Improved subject indexing and faceted searching
* Printing, e-mailing, and exporting ability
* Text-to-audio feature and article translations
* Easy and intuitive bookmarking
* Citation generator and exporting to End Note, ProCite, RefWorks and Reference Manager
* Cross-search capability

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

Library Update #66