Research App for your Mobile Device

Interested in doing research from your iPhone?
You can download the EBSCOhost App from iTunes and search the library's largest journal database on your handheld device!

This following is the easiest way to access this collection of newspapers, journals, and magazines from your mobile device. Please remember, it must be set up from an on-campus computer and you must have your device with you.

1. From an on-campus computer go to: http://search.ebscohost.com/
2. Scroll down to the last option, ebscohost mobile, and click on that link.

3. Choose the last option "Ebscohost iPhone and Android applications". This will prompt you to enter your email address to get a link and an authentication code. EBSCO will send a code to your email address.

4. Then open the email from EBSCO on your device! The email will provide you with two steps – 1.) links to download the app and 2.) an authentication key to click or tap on. This will bring you directly into the application. Please do this within 24 hours or it will expire.

You are now good to go for nine months after which you will have to get a new authentication key. Please do not hesitate to ask for help in setting up your device or using this collection.

Thanksgiving Break

The library will close Saturday Nov. 19 at noon and reopen Monday Nov. 28th at 5 p.m.

Come by now to get an audiobook for your drive home or a paperback for the plane!

New Fiction

Here are some of the new fiction titles available in the library

Year of Wonders, Brooks

Room, Donoghue

The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party, McCall Smith

Atonement, McEwan

Raisins and Almonds, Greenwood (AUDIO)

Be A Critical Information Consumer!

We all need to practice our critical research skills, whether we are writing a paper or buying a car. We can get masses of information easily, so one of the skills we most need to develop is that of evaluating the source of the information.

Here is an example of a situation in which a consumer needs to evaluate the source of the medical information.

Perhaps you have seen ads on television that address the nutritional value of High Fructose Corn Syrup:

http://www.cornsugar.com/video-gallery/

These ads encourage the consumption of HFCS and refer viewers to cornsugar.com for more information. It is important to note that this site is produced by the Corn Refiners Association. While this does not make the information on their website incorrect, it does make it important to check other nutritional studies and articles, since you can be certain that the Corn Refiners will be presenting a case that is in the best interest of their business. Perhaps the National Library of Medicine or the Center for Disease Control might have some information that could help you answer this nutritional question?

Always make sure you know the source of your information; and always come and ask at the library if you want more information on any topic!

New Non-Fiction

These two titles go well together, although their topics are quite different!

The Social Animal: a story of love, character and achievement by David Brooks

Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

both are on display in the Periodicals Room of the library.

New Novels

These new novels are displayed on the New Books shelves in the Periodicals Room.

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

House Rules by Jodi Picoult
Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult

Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks

Room by Emma Donoghue

Parents' Weekend

Special hours for the weekend:

Friday: Library closed in the evening for Parent Reception
Saturday: Library open
Sunday: Library closed
Halloween Monday: Library opened from 5pm-10pm