Library Online Tutorials

If you need to know how to find articles in Andruss Library, you may be interested in viewing an online tutorial now available on our Web page. Listed under Tutorials > How to find articles, the tutorial offers four scenarios to choose from:

1) Searching for a specific, known article: "I have a complete citation for an article I need to find" (10 minutes)
2) Searching for a topic: "I don't have any citations. I just need to find some articles" (8 minutes)
3) Searching for a specific article, but missing some information: "I know what journal I need, but I don't have a complete citation" (8 minutes)
4) Learning the basics:"What's a citation?" (5 minutes)

The tutorials (which do not have sound, for easy viewing in the Library) clearly demonstrate how to find and use library resources to locate journal articles.

As always, if you need additional help, stop by the Reference Desk on the 2nd floor of the Library, call us at 570-389-4204, or contact us online, either via Ask a BU Librarian (for email answers) or via Ask Here PA (for live, online reference help).

New Elections 2008 Subject Guide

The Andruss Library Governments Documents unit has created a subject guide to the 2008 elections. The page contains links to web sites focusing on selected national, state, and local elections.

Go to the library's homepage, and click on Internet Resources, then Government Information. Or visit the page directly: http://library.bloomu.edu/pages/govinfo/election2008.html.

For more information about the Government Documents Collection, please contact Katie Yelinek, Coordinator of Government Documents, email: kyelinek (at) bloomu.edu, phone:x4228.

The Chronicle of Higher Education

We are very pleased to announce that The Chronicle of Higher Education is now available full-text, online to students, faculty, staff and administrative personnel on or off campus. To access, please go to the Library’s web page at http://library.bloomu.edu then click on Databases (A-Z), then scroll down to The Chronicle of Higher Education – Campus Wide.
This online edition offers several advantages over the print version:

• the Web site (http://chronicle.com) is updated throughout the day with the latest news in academe;


• the text from the current print edition is posted every Monday morning (http://chronicle.com/chronicle);


• a searchable archive of every issue published since September 1989 (http://chronicle.com/search);


• all the commentary and essays from the weekly magazine, The Chronicle Review (http://chronicle.com/review);


• all data from the annual Almanac & other special single topic reports are available in easy-to-search databases: (http://chronicle.com/special);


• online extras such as slide shows, podcasts, and videos are available (http://chronicle.com/extras).