Book Scanner Provides Unique Service for Students and Patrons

Swing by the Simon Schwob Memorial Library and check out the latest electronic resource that is sure to better scholarship, productivity, and creativity on campus. Students and patrons are invited to use the service and resources provided.

Located near the Information Commons Area, the Scannx Book ScanCenter is the library’s most powerful and accessible self-service book scanner. With its user-friendly touchscreen monitor, the book scanner is easily able to produce seamless document duplicates. This feature improves the library experience for both library staff and patrons. 

Users are able to scan books and documents into searchable PDF, Word doc, JPEG, TIFF and PNG file formats with the click of a button. Along with other functions, users are able to send scanned files to email; to a smartphone/tablet; to document-storage systems like Google Drive, Dropbox, and network folders or to additional document-management devices like fax machines, USB flash drives and other multi-function devices.

Other benefits of the book scanner include less paper and waste, extends lifespan of books, increases accuracy, add-on features, and the scanner also provides a multi-language compatibility.

Be sure to properly utilize the newest gadget, responsibly. For more information, browse CSU Libraries or Scannx Product pages. 

Health Resources on Diseases

Science Librarian, Paul Luft, points out two resources that track diseases and keep you updated on health events such as the recent Ebola outbreak:







http://healthmap.org/en/

HealthMap website and mobile app lets users observe cases of disease located in their area and around the US in real-time. Each case is accompanied with details on the specific infection, and sometimes is connected to online news, reports, and other related material. Users can search by type of disease and receive e-mail alerts on any outbreaks.



http://www.cdc.gov/

The CDC (Center for Disease Control) provides day-by-day coverage on the the latest diseases and currently is monitoring the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Users can find out the treatment, diagnosis, prevention, etc. of many diseases as well as topics that cover healthy living and emergency preparedness.







Discover more health resources from CSU Libraries' Subject Guides.

NovelList Plus and NoveList Plus K-8 Added to GALILEO

NoveList Plus and NoveList K-8 Plus are two new resources that have been added to GALILEO. NoveList has provided readers' advisory for both educators and librarians, and NoveList Plus provides new popular nonfiction titles as well as other features such as:

• Recommended reading lists on Adventure Travel, Growing Up Around the World, Animals in Our Lives, Historical Scandals, Scientific Discoveries, Women in Sports, and more 
• Dewey Number Browse to find recommended titles by Dewey number
• Advanced Search features for audio and nonfiction search refinement

Other features still available

·         Author, title, and series read-alikes
·         Lexile level assignments
·         Robust awards and notable books lists
·         Book discussion guides
·         Picture book extenders
·         Common Core resources

New Resources on GALILEO

CSU Libraries are happy to announce that the following new resources from EBSCO are on GALILEO. This will add thousands of new abstracts to use when searching for articles, journals, and other online materials.

Here are the GALILEO Express Links with descriptions of each resource:

• Child Development and Adolescent Studies: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbcd 

Child Development & Adolescent Studies™ provides references to the current and historical literature related to growth and development of children through the age of 21. This database includes all of the issues of Child Development Abstracts & Bibliography from 1927 - 2001 previously published by the Society for Research in Child Development, plus new coverage on child rights and welfare issues. Book reviews and abstracts from hundreds of journals and a bibliography of thousands of technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations covering biomedical and social sciences worldwide are indexed in this database. 

• Peace Research Abstracts: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbpr  

Peace Research Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to peace research, including conflict resolution, international affairs, peace psychology, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains thousands of records selected from the most important sources within the discipline, such as: Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Journal of Refugee Law, etc. EBSCO has digitized the full archive of this index, including coverage dating back to 1964. 

• Race Relations Abstracts: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbrr 

Race Relations Abstracts focuses on content relating specifically to the relationship between races. Race relations is an area of study that pertains to the social, political, and economic relations between races and ethnicities. Specific areas covered include ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, ideology, community relations, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains thousands of records selected from the sources such as Race & Class, Ethnic & Racial Studies, Journal of Social Issues, etc.

• Violence and Abuse Abstracts: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbva 

Violence & Abuse Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to violence and abuse, including family violence, sexual assault, emotional abuse, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Records are selected from sources within the discipline, such as: Child Maltreatment, Trauma, and Violence & Abuse. EBSCO has digitized the full archive of this index, bringing coverage back to 1995.  

Links for descriptions: Child Development, Peace Research, Race Relations, Violence & Abuse

New Classical Music Tracks

Columbus State University's Classical Music Library online listening collection now has 396,083 new tracks.

Highlights include:

    Performances by Jussi Bjorling, Andre Previn, Berlin Philharmonic, Luciano Pavarotti, Georgi Badev, Glenn Gould, and many more
    Albany Records, ABC Classics, Van Cliburn Foundation, Hungaroton, Signum Records, Delphian Records, and other great labels
    Expanded content in subgenres including opera, soundtracks, choral music, and orchestral music

Plus, this audio is searchable right alongside your preexisting content, with features including:

    Semantic facet browsing. Narrow results by discipline, release date, language, label, performer, and more.
    High-definition audio. Stream tracks at up to CD quality (320kbps), so you don’t miss a note.
    Waveform view. Use the audio waveform view to create precise audio clips, then share them with your colleagues, classmates, or the world.

Check out the collection here or look for the Classical Music Library in Galileo under Databases A-Z.

CSU Library Resources: eJournals A-to-Z

Looking for journal articles to use for your research? Journals A-to-Z presents online full-text articles available from Columbus State University. Users can search with keywords or under the subjects tab to narrow down their search to a journal that deals with certain subject matter.

Let's say you're thinking about writing something about pesticides, but aren't quite sure where to go from there. If you search for pesticides under Journals A-to-Z you can find journal titles that deal with different aspects of pesticides such as pesticide reform or pesticides in food. Browsing these journals and their articles can help shape ideas for your future research papers and projects. 

If you like this resource, please check out our other resources available on our home page under the resources tab or box.

New eBooks on Ovid

Ovid, a medical journal and nursing eBook database provided by CSU Libraries, has recently received a collection of over 100 eBooks for health sciences.

"Ovid is a recognized global leader in research information solutions with more than 12,500 medical, academic, and corporate institutions and their users accessing Ovid to inform their work to improve patient care, enhance ongoing research, and fuel new discoveries."

http://www.ovid.com/site/about.jsp

WELCOME TO FALL SEMESTER 2013!

Welcome COUGARS!

The mission of the Columbus State University Libraries is to provide library and information resources, instruction and other services that promote and enrich intellectual and personal growth as well as scholarship. As part of the 2012 renovation, the Simon Schwob Memorial Library, located on CSU’s main campus, now offers flexible seating for up to 300 students. The new furnishings, along with portable whiteboards and wireless Internet, provide students with excellent opportunities for creative collaboration in a food-friendly environment.

The CSU Music Library is located at the RiverCenter of the Performing Arts, 900 Broadway in Uptown Columbus. It houses a collection of over 94,000 CDs and LPs in addition to 700 pieces of sheet music.

Services include:
• Open 7 AM - 2 AM, Monday – Thursday during Semesters
• One-on-One Research Consultations
• My Library Account Access

Resources include:
• Over 11,500 Electronic Journals
• Over 35,000 E-books • Wireless Internet
• Over 80 Computers Available for Loan including Laptops and Google ChromeBooks
• Information Commons with Computers, Printers, and Scanners including 13 Dual-monitor Computers
• Comfortable Study Spaces with Flexible Furnishings
• Lecture/Forum Area
• GALILEO
• Interlibrary Loan
• Chat with a Librarian
• Email a Librarian
• Text-a-Librarian

We're glad you're here! Have a SUPER semester!

Need Assistance with the GRE, LSAT, GMAT, or MCAT??

LearningExpress Library™ is a collection of more than 1000 practice tests and skills tutorials for academic and career advancement, and more than 200 eBooks.

Whatever your goal, LearningExpress Library's resources will help you succeed. Each of the Learning Centers offers the practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, eBooks, and information you need to achieve the results you want — at school, at work, or in life. Looking to land a job? You'll find an entire Learning Center dedicated to helping you get the one that's right for you.

If you have an eye on graduate school, the Admissions and Placement Preparation Center offers full-length practice tests to help you earn a top score on the GMAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, and more. You'll also find complete preparation for the TOEFL, TOEIC, and CLEP.

In addition to the Admissions and Placement Preparation Center, you'll find the Job Search & Workplace Skills Center, the Jobs & Career Center, the U.S. Citizenship Center, and the Skills Improvement Center.

You can access LearningExpress Library™ via GALILEO or directly at: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=leaa-col1

For more information about LearningExpress Library™, please Ask a Librarian or call 706-507-8671.

Wishing you much success!

New to KCDLonline

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KCDLonline just announced that the 30th edition of the Kraus Curriculum Development Library is complete and available online. With this new edition, KCDLonline now contains nearly 8,500 curricula, frameworks, and standards from 1983 through mid-2011.

The following is a representative selection of new resources that have been recently added to the database. These materials are searchable by keywords, title, grade, and state agencies.

* Ba Futuru / For the Future (Timor-Leste)
* Center for Collaborative Education (MA)
* Children & Nature Network (NM)
* Jazz at Lincoln Center (NY)
* Media Education Foundation (MA)
* TakingITGlobal (CANADA)
* The Ewing Public Schools (NJ)
* U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (CA)
* Willie Ross School for the Deaf, Inc. (MA)
* Women in Mining Education Foundation (CO)

You can access KCDLOnline through GALILEO or directly at: www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=kcdl-col.

Happy Searching!

ARTstor Introduces New Video Tutorials!

Looking for a summer full of art and culture? CSU Libraries can help!

The ARTstor Digital Library provides more than one million images with tools for teaching and research. Its collections comprise contributions from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates from all over the world (read the full list here: http://www.artstor.org/collections). The collections encompass a wide variety of subject areas, including art, architecture, music, religion, anthropology, literature, world history, American Studies, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, and more.

Breaking News!

ARTstor just announced its summer series of instructional videos that explores newly released features and also reviews older topics.

Videos that are currently available include"Export to PowerPoint," "Folders and image groups," and "How to unlock a password protected folder."

Future videos to look forward to are: "Faceted Search" and step-by-step PDF guides.

You can find these new videos on YouTube and on ARTstor's Help Wiki.

Happy searching!

June 4th ProQuest Infrastructure Maintenance Schedule

ProQuest will be performing infrastructure maintenance on June 4, 2011.

A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will be required for this maintenance. The window will take place from Saturday, June 4, 2011 at 10:00 PM to Sunday, June 5, 2011 at 10:00 AM.

During this time, all ProQuest databases databases will be unavailable. These include:

• Criminal Justice Periodical Index
  
• ProQuest Newspapers
• ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health
  
• ProQuest Research Library

If you have any questions or need more information, please Ask a Librarian or call CSU Libraries at: 706-562-1492.

GALILEO announcements and status updates are available at: http://status.galileo.usg.edu

June 4th Gale Infrastructure Maintenance Schedule

Gale will be performing infrastructure maintenance on Saturday, June 4, 2011. A twelve (12) hour period will be required for this maintenance.

The window will take place from Saturday at 12:00 AM to 12:00 PM.

During this time, all Gale products and services will be unavailable. These include:

• Biography in Context
• GREENR
  
• Literature Criticism Online
• Poetry for Students
  
• Something about the Author Online
  

If you have any questions or need more information, please Ask a Librarian or call CSU Libraries at: 706-562-1492.

GALILEO announcements and status updates are available at: http://status.galileo.usg.edu

Downtime for the ProQuest Databases

ProQuest will be performing infrastructure maintenance on May 5, 2011. A two (2) hour maintenance window will be required for this maintenance. The window will take place from Thursday, May 5, 2011, at 10:00 p.m. to Thursday, May 5, 2011 at 12:00 midnight.

The following products will be unavailable during these windows:

• ProQuest platform products, including Research Library and ABI/INFORM
• Genealogy and local history products, including Ancestry Library Edition
  
• Dissertation products

CSU Libraries apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause.

For more information, please contact CSU Libraries.

New E-Resources Guide for Films on Demand

Films on Demand is a comprehensive collection of high-quality educational videos licensed from a long established educational media distributor. Nearly 7000 videos cover a wide range of topics organized into 5 broad subjects. Individual segments subdivide each video into discrete shorter units.

The interface allows searching by title, by keywords in segments, browsing titles alphabetically, and browsing or searching within the subject areas.

The default playback for videos in this collection is Flash. Users also can select playback in Windows Media or QuickTime. Playback on PCs running Windows software allows changing the size of the video display and selecting a different playback bit rate.

Many of the titles in the collection have closed-captioning. Use the Advanced Search function to limit search results to titles with closed-captioning.

For more instructions on videos and this database please see the new E-Resources Guide.

Using third-party software to capture these video streams for playback outside of the Films on Demand interface is illegal and violates the CSU Libraries license for these videos.

Database of the Month: ERIC

ERIC - the Education Resources Information Center - is an online digital library of education research and information that contains more than 1.3 million records and links to more than 323,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966 . ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC provides ready access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research.

In addition to this ERIC has launched the SearchEduResources YouTube channel. The channel is designed to provide instructional tutorials and other short videos to ERIC's broad base of users. A selection of 19 tutorials is now available to provide guidance on ERIC's suite of online features and tools. Visitors can receive alerts when new videos are added by subscribing to the channel.Over the past year, ERIC has established a presence in social media and implemented an expanded selection of collaboration tools. These include a Twitter feed, Facebook page, RSS feeds, and a "Share" tool that enables searchers to post citations and searches to social applications and sites.

OMG, the Oxford English Dictionary Added New Words! We ‘Heart’ It! LOL!

According to the OED, the newest edition of the dictionary revises more than 1,900 entries and includes a ton of new words — including the neologisms above.

So what do OMG and LOL mean to the OED? In the electronic realm, they’re merely shorthand for surprise and laughter. In the real-world space — according to the OED’s blog post — “The intention is usually to signal an informal, gossipy mode of expression, and perhaps parody the level of unreflective enthusiasm or overstatement that can sometimes appear in online discourse, while at the same time marking oneself as an ‘insider’ au fait with the forms of expression associated with the latest technology.”

The OED also reveals that these neologisms aren’t as neo as we might think: The first quotation the dictionary uses for the definition of OMG is from a letter dating back to 1917, and LOL meant “little old lady” back in 1960.

The heart sign (<3), however, is perhaps the most interesting addition. As the post says, “This update may be the first English usage to develop via the medium of T-shirts and bumper-stickers.”

One thing to keep in mind is that popular culture is major driver of new vocabulary. Once a word makes it in, it is never removed even if it becomes antiquated; the purpose of the OED is to exist as a comprehensive, living history of the language.

Database of the Month: ACM Digital Library

The ACM Digital Library contains the full-text for articles published in ACM and affiliated organizations' periodicals and proceedings since 1985, as well as bibliographic information, abstracts, and reviews for those articles. These publications cover various fields related to computing, including software, hardware, computational theory, artificial intelligence, information science, human-computer interaction, instructional technology, and the research and development communities involved in computing.

Searching of the full-text is available using keywords, authors, and ACM subject classification terms, and features phrase searching, use of wildcards, and Boolean expression searching as well as search limitation on fields, publication, and publication date. If you would like to see a video tutorial on how to use the ACM Digital Library from the James A. Cannavino Library at Marist College, click here.

This database includes links to two related resources: the Guide to Computing Literature and Computing Reviews. The Guide is a collection of bibliographic citations and abstracts of works published by the ACM and 3,000 other publishers. Computing Reviews comprehensively reviews books, articles, conference proceedings, theses, technical reports, and Web-based publications in computer science.

*Note: You will need Adobe Acrobat to access this information*

Women’s History Month

In honor of Women’s History Month, here are a few resources in GALILEO to help you find the stories of women throughout history.

Encyclopædia Britannica offers a spotlight on women, Encyclopædia Britannica Profiles 300 Women Who Changed the World. This collection of items includes an illustrated timeline of women throughout history along with articles, essays, speeches, video clips, and learning activities.

A search for women in History Reference Center reveals articles about Amelia Earhart and other women aviators, about women in space, about female athletes, about women living the pioneer life on the frontier, and much more.

World History Collection offers historical accounts of women around the world, including this inspiring story of women in Peru and a look at the reading and work that Mary Wollstonecraft put in to writing Frankenstein.

For speeches, letters, and other primary source documents, search for women in Annals of American History to see a letter from Horace Greeley on women’s rights or a declaration of rights for women from Susan B. Anthony.

Interested in important women in Georgia? Take a look at the Women of Distinction in Georgia feature in the New Georgia Encyclopedia. You can read about interesting women like Mary Musgrove, Rosalyn Carter, Alice Walker, and many more fascinating women. The Digital Library of Georgia offers many historical images and documents related to women, and it also includes two collections focused on women’s history, For Our Mutual Benefit: The Athens Woman’s Club and Social Reform, 1899-1920 and Georgia Women’s Movement Oral History Project Collection.

Also take a look at the great print titles here at the Simon Schwob Memorial Library.

Article and search links may not work off site. Click the database name first for access.

Job, Career, and Educational Resources in GALILEO

Are you looking for a job after graduation? Or, do you want a better job while attending school? Are you trying to figure out what you want to do with your life? Are you considering graduate school? GALILEO offers several resources for researching careers, continuing education and searching for jobs.

Another resource is GAcollege411, which provides career and education planning college students, and adult learners. Resources include tools for matching students to careers, preparing for college entrance tests, comparing Georgia colleges and universities, applying for financial aid, and more. There is also a My Portfolio feature to help you keep up with all the planning.

NetLibrary offers ebooks on many topics, including ebooks on choosing careers, searching for jobs, writing resumes and cover letters, and handling job interviews. Titles include Haldane’s Best Cover Letters for Professionals, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Perfect Interview, and Interview Strategies That Lead to Job Offers.

Career and Technical Education provides articles, book chapters, and other documents related to many types of careers as well as choosing a career and searching for a job.

LearningExpress Library designed to provide students with the highest quality resources available. The interactive tools will help you reach your academic and professional goals, and improved job placement. If you are pursuing an advanced degree, LearningExpress Library offers a comprehensive selection of test preparation resources, to help prepare for the GRE and other graduate school entrance exams. You can even prepare for occupation certification and licensing exams in many of today's fastest growing career fields.

Business Source Complete offers career guides for countries all around the world as well as articles and book chapters to assist with job hunting. Business Source Complete is also a great source for company information if you want to learn about a company before applying for the job. (And, check out these other resources on finding company information in GALILEO.)

Finally, for students just starting out in career exploration, Encyclopedia Britannica has articles about some professions for students to learn what it means to be a nurse, teacher, police officer, lawyer, and more.

Find these and other Career resources in GALILEO Library or GALILEO Scholar.

Article and search links may not work off site. Click the database name first for access.