NEIU Library News
RefWorks Free to All Alumni
October 3rd, 2009 Filed Under New Resources
Now you can take your RefWorks account with you after you graduate. You won’t lose any of your work, and you don’t need to transfer any files. Your account will stay just as it is. We can also offer past alumni a free new RefWorks account, no matter when you graduated from NEIU.
Visit the Library Reference Desk on the 1st floor, call (773) 442-4410 or ext. 4410, or email NEIU-Library@neiu.edu for details.
One Book Per Semester
September 18th, 2008 Filed Under Events, New Resources
The Library is supporting the College of Business and Management’s One Book Per Semester. One Book per Semester (OBPS) is an effort to engage business students and faculty in the reading and discussion of a common book during the fall semester and another common book during the spring semester.
Both books are on two-hour reserve at the Library’s Circulation Desk. They are listed under the course MNGT OBPS.
Welcome to the New Library Website
August 13th, 2008 Filed Under Feedback, New Resources, New Services
Did you notice our new look? Over the summer, the NEIU Library gave the website a major facelift. Some new features of the website include:
- a Quick Search box on the homepage,
- more options to contact a librarian,
- research guides by subject.
In the coming semester, we’ll be making other changes to the look and feel of our site and services. Please take a few minutes to share your comments with us.
New Library Website Coming Soon
June 12th, 2008 Filed Under New Resources
In the coming months, our librarians will be hard at work designing an improved library website — and NEIU students, faculty, and staff will be a part of the process!
In May and early June, 15 students participated in card sort testing, an exercise that helps web designers to create helpful links and categories. Each student received a $20 gift certificate to Beck’s Bookstore for an hour’s work! Here’s how one card sort turned out:
There will be more opportunities to help the Library and earn great prizes. Check back this summer for information on how you can be a part of the website redesign process, or contact librarian Mary Thill.
New Publication: Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth
March 20th, 2008 Filed Under New Resources
A new journal, the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, is debuting in the library’s online resource, Project Muse. You can access Project Muse via the library’s A-Z listing of online databases.
According to Johns Hopkins University Press,
The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth explores the development of childhood and youth cultures and the experiences of young people across diverse times and places. JHCY embraces a wide range of historical methodologies as well as scholarship in other disciplines that share a historical focus. The journal publishes original articles based on empirical research and essays that place contemporary issues of childhood and youth in a historical context. Each issue also includes an “object lesson” on the material culture of childhood, contemporary policy pieces, and relevant book reviews. JHCY is the official journal of the Society for the History of Children and Youth.
485 Sage e-Journals Now Available
February 21st, 2008 Filed Under New Resources
The library now offers online access to all of the journals published by Sage, more than 485 peer-reviewed and scholarly journals in the Humanities, Sciences, Business and Social Sciences. This e-journal package, called Sage Premier, includes all of Sage’s titles, with full text going back to each title’s first issue. CARLI, the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois, negotiated a special offer on behalf of member libraries, making access possible.
These journals can be accessed through the library’s a-z list of full text journals and are also available through the “Get This Item” service.
Credo Reference
January 5th, 2008 Filed Under New Resources
Search 300 key reference books with one search box using Credo Reference!
You can now retrieve the full text, images, and pronunciation sound files from almost 300 key reference books to help you with your questions. Use the library’s new online reference resource, Credo Reference, to find quick answers in any subject area. You will find it in our A-Z list of library databases. Coverage includes:
- Art (architecture, fashion, theatre)
- Bilingual Dictionaries (general, commerce, classics)
- Biography (artists, politicians, writers)
- Business (economics, finance, management)
- Conversions (distances, volumes, weights)
- Dictionaries (definitions, crossword solver)
- Encyclopedias (facts, people, places)
- Food (cooking, ingredients, nutrition)
- Geography (climate, demographic, physical)
- History (classical, modern, renaissance)
- Language (idioms, rhymes, usage)
- Law (criminal, civil, commercial)
- Literature (drama, fiction, poetry)
- Medicine (conditions, health, therapies)
- Music (classical, jazz, artists)
- Philosophy & Psychology (ideas, theories, thoughts)
- Quotations (biographical, esoteric, popular)
- Religion (Bible, Koran, Hindu lore, history)
- Science (physics, biology, chemistry)
- Social Sciences (education, politics, sociology)
- Technology (computing, telecom, jargon)
RefWorks Workshops Offered This Semester
September 27th, 2007 Filed Under Instruction, New Resources
RefWorks, a citation manager recently purchased by the Library, is now available to all NEIU faculty, students, and staff. Come to one of our workshops to learn how to set up a free account, add new citations to your collection, and organize your collection with folders. We will also demonstrate Write-N-Cite, a feature of RefWorks that allows users to insert citations directly into Microsoft Word documents and automatically generate bibliographies.
Workshops will be offered:
Thursday, September 27 at 2:00 PM
Monday, October 8 at 1:00 PM
Saturday, October 20 at 11:30 AM
Wednesday, October 24 at 4:00 PM
Tuesday, November 6 at 11:00 AM
Friday, November 16 at 10:00 AM
All workshops will be held in the Library computer classroom on the 3rd floor. Please call 773-442-4410 or visit the 1st floor reference desk to register for one of the sessions.
Biological Sciences Collection Added to JSTOR
August 13th, 2007 Filed Under New Resources
Readers of biology journals now have access to nearly 100 more titles online, available in full text through JSTOR. The NEIU Library added JSTOR’s Biological Sciences Collection to its subscriptions as of July. Coverage in this collection offers greater depth in fields such as biodiversity, conservation, paleontology, and plant science, in addition to introducing new areas such as cell biology and zoology.
The JSTOR archive holds the complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals, starting with the very first issues, some dating as far back as the 1600s. New titles and disciplines are being added regularly. As is the policy with all JSTOR titles, a “moving wall” limits access to journal issues that are at least one year old or more.
Answers to Your Questions 24/7!
June 22nd, 2007 Filed Under New Resources
Have you ever wondered how to cite an article in APA citation style, but didn’t have the manual and the library was closed. Furthermore, your paper was due the next day, and your favorite TV program is about to start? Your Ronald Williams Library has the answer for you.
Maybe you needed to know which of the over 100 databases would be the best to research the legislative history of the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education. Your library can offer you help here too–but what if we’re closed?
AskAway offers you the opportunity to chat live with a librarian 365 days of the year (every day and all 24 hours). So, you “night owls” who are finishing a project at 3:00 a.m. and need to know which journal had that article about Madeleine Albright and Hillary Clinton, are in good hands. The librarian may be from California, Florida, Maine, London, or Timbuktu, but will chat with you via your computer. When you finish the communication with the librarian, he or she may forward your question to a librarian here at NEIU to peruse, in case we want to offer you even more help.
To access AskAway, just click on the AskAway icon on the Library’s homepage or NEIUport Library tab.
