Off The Shelf

The librarians are teaching two webinars coming up within the next week.  Spend an hour to pick up some new skills that could save you days down the road! RefWorks Webinar:  Thursday, May 10, 2012, 7:00 PM CDT RefWorks is a research management tool that helps you collect, organize, and store citations from library databases and [...]

The library has two webinars coming up this week, so now is your chance to spend an hour picking up some skills that could help you with the rest of your program! “Searching Databases for Articles” Webinar:  Thursday, April 12, 2012, 7:00 PM CDT Get better results for the topics you search in the library [...]

Our Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) database has a new look and new functionality including: Improved user-focused navigation and organization Enhanced advanced search options Multi-page viewer that enables one or two-page viewing ReadSpeaker text-to-speech technology in 19 languages Book cover images on the search and results screens GVRL contains reference books such as dictionaries, encyclopedias and [...]

As you finish writing your final papers for the quarter, we in the library would like to remind you to cite your sources properly.   Here are some resources that can help. Many of our library databases allow you to get the APA-formatted citation for an article that you can copy and paste into a [...]

The library has two webinars coming up this week, so now is your chance to spend an hour picking up some skills that could help you with the rest of your program! “Searching Databases for Articles” Webinar:  Thursday, March 8th, 7:00 PM Central Get better results for the topics you search in the library databases!  If you [...]

Need validity and reliability information for a survey, test or instrument?  You can start with the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY), which  provides reviews of published tests that discuss validity and reliability.  But what if the test you chose doesn’t appear in the MMY, or what if you are required to find additional articles that discuss [...]

The library has two webinars coming up this week, so now is your chance to spend an hour picking up some skills that could help you with the rest of your program! RefWorks Webinar:  Thursday, February 16th, 7:00 PM Central RefWorks is a research management tool that helps you collect, organize, and store citations from [...]

Here is a list of just some of the latest addtions to our ebrary collection.  If you would like to find these books or browse for other titles, you can go to the ebrary home page and run a search: Accounting for Value Advocating for English Learners: Selected Essays Computer Games and Team and Individual Learning       [...]

The library recently added thirty new books to its ebrary database; too many to bore you with the entire list here, but we hope that many of you will be excited to find out that four of those books are research and methodology books.   A number of other books are topics that may be of [...]

DSM Premium is now available through the library web site.  This collection, from PsychiatryOnline, provides access to the DSM-IV-TR, a standard diagnostic tool for psychiatric disorders.  The DSM-IV-TR covers diagnosis, differential diagnosis, case vignettes and multidisciplinary treatment guidelines. In addition, the complete DSM archive (I-IV) is available along with a variety of reference books and peer-reviewed [...]