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

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

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

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