Nursing Information - When and Where You Need It

The Library Delivers the Latest Nursing and Medical Information When and Where You Need It

CINAHL® Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive nursing & allied health research database, providing full text for more than 770 “core” journals. The database also provides full text for more than 275 books/monographs. CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature. It also provides indexing for more than 4,500 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains over 2.7 million journal records dating back to 1981. CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters.

Searching is as Easy as 1, 2, 3:.
From the library home page, click on “Articles & Databases” on the left side of the screen, then on the Off Campus login button, then select CINAHL Plus with Full Text.

Then:

Open Saturday for Class Orientations

LBCC Libraries are Open on Saturday for Class Orientations

Help Insure That Students Learn the Skills for Better Papers and Projects

Students that are information literate—who understand how to identify, retrieve, evaluate, and synthesize information—these are the students who will have an edge when they write papers or present projects. LBCC librarians can recommend the best print and digital sources for the information students are seeking, and can demonstrate how to use them effectively and efficiently.

Already many classes visit both LBCC libraries each week for librarian-presented orientations requested by faculty. But the library wants to remind you that that, in the remaining weeks of this semester, and during the Spring, Saturday orientation requests can be accommodated
and are encouraged. Schedule your Saturday class with a librarian at either campus, or consider inviting students in your weekday class to make arrangements with one another to come in voluntarily in groups on Saturday for a library orientation to earn extra credit.

To schedule a library orientation (or an orientation on a weekday) go to http://lib.lbcc.edu/
forms/orientation.cfm to complete and submit a request.

For more information contact Kim Barclay, Library Instruction Coordinator, kbarclay@lbcc.edu

Library Update #81

New Quiet Study

A Welcoming Environment for Independent Study: Students Ask, the Library Delivers

In any new or remodeled building users and occupants discover things that may not be quite right; there always are tweaks and adjustments that we discover after the construction crew has left. The LAC Library is no exception. Today’s library must be able to accommodate both students that need spaces for collaborative group study and students who need an environment that is conducive to quiet, distraction free study.

LBCC students told us that most of the study areas in the newly remodeled LAC Library were too near service desks, offices, and group study rooms to insure that they could become quiet spaces. Responding to those valid concerns, the library has reconfigured its book shelving and created a new study area designed with that need in mind. As these photos show, it’s a place that’s bright, open, and inviting, but it’s also where one can be reasonably confident that her/his concentration won’t be disturbed.

Visit the LAC Library to see this improvement firsthand, and watch for more “tweaks and adjustments” to make the library even more welcoming for its student and faculty customers.

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

Opposing Viewpoints, Updated and Redesigned

Renamed and Improved Database for "Hot Topics"

• Carbon offsets
• Genetically modified food
• Texting while driving

Students come to the library seeking the latest and best information on topical issues like these, and they often rely on sources such as the online Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center from Gale/Cengage. This database delivers a wide variety of content (journal articles, statistics, primary sources, web links, and reference book excerpts) and provided extra tools to help users organize and document their research papers and presentations.

Recently, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center became Opposing Viewpoints in Context and with this title change came some welcome new features. In addition to a cleaner more image-rich interface, the database now provides:

• More than 14,000 pro/con viewpoint essays
• 5,000+ topic overviews
• More than 300 primary source documents
• 300 biographies of social activists and reformers
• More than 775 court-case overviews
• 5 million periodical articles
• Nearly 6,000 statistical tables, charts and graphs
• Nearly 70,000 images and a link to Google Image Search
• Thousands of podcasts, including weekly presidential addresses and premier NPR programs
• A national and state curriculum standards search, correlated to the content that allows educators to quickly identify material by grade and discipline
  

Sample some provocative Opposing Viewpoints in Context through your library’s web site (use is restricted to the LBCC campus community). Point your browser to http://lib.lbcc.edu/.” (If you’re off campus remember to authenticate yourself by clicking this button

Click next on “Articles and Databases” on the left side of the screen, then select “Opposing
Viewpoints” from the menu.

For more information contact: Nenita Buenaventura, Access Services Librarian
goodventure04@gmail.com

Library Update #79

Foster Information Literate Students

Intervention Can Help Boost Student Performance

Disappointed by the Quality of Student Papers/Projects/Presentations?

Information literacy can boost class performance.

Concerned about students that are getting behind, appearing more confused and overwhelmed with each class assignment? It’s not too late to avert a regrettable outcome.

Information literacy fosters student success

• That’s why the California Community Colleges have incorporated information literacy standards into every CCC curriculum
  

LBCC Librarians promote information literacy by:

• Orientations that provide step by step demonstrations of how to find, retrieve, organize, evaluate and synthesize the facts, opinions, statistics, and other information they need for their assignments
  

• Collaborating with instructional faculty to develop assignments that will motivate (perhaps even inspire) students by helping them appreciate the valueof research that goes beyond a web browser
  

It’s easy to schedule an orientation for your class, electronically via the Library web
site at http://lib.lbcc.edu/forms/orientation.cfm ; or print the form, complete it, and send to Kim Barclay (LAC) or Dr. Sethuraman (PCC). One can also complete the form at the
reference desks at LAC or PCC Library.

For more information contact: Kim Barclay kbarclay@lbcc.edu

Library Update #78

LibGuides, Library Research on Steroids!

A New Look and Great New Functionality for Library Research Guides

What’s the key to successful library research? Sure, you can use Google, Bing, Safari, or Wikipedia to find information. But for successful research, nobody knows better than a librarian where to find the facts, statistics, arguments, and evidence that you didn’t even know existed.



Librarians are information gurus, and the LBCC Library’s latest innovation, LibGuides, promises to provide not just a medium for alerting the library’s customers to important information resources, but also a way to continue the dialogue, and to deliver much of the information directly to the student and faculty desktop.

The LibGuides approach to enabling library research:

• Has been embraced by over 1500 libraries in 25 countries
• Uses the latest web 2.0 technologies
• Enables content to be reused and shared within and across institutions
• Can be used to create multimedia guides that share knowledge and information and promote library resources to the campus community
• Is available on Facebook and can be integrated with Twitter to connect with customers wherever they are
• Can distribute content into other websites, blogs and courseware systems
• Allows embedding of videos, RSS, and podcasts

LBCC librarians have compiled and published “subject guides” for as long as the library existed, first as paper handouts, and more recently on the web are the basis for LibGuides content, but now the librarians have access to publishing tools that will take them to the next level, benefiting the entire LBCC campus community.

See examples of the library’s first LibGuides publications, including guides for Statistics, Anthropology at http://lbcc.libguides.com/ and look for others, as the transition to LibGuides continues throughout the coming months.

For more information about LibGuides, contact Dena Laney.

Library Update #76