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Focus: Tues, Feb 24 – Wed, Feb 25

SAU sets aside one day every Spring semester for our community of learners to consider a current topic of interest to the contemporary world.  The title of this year’s Focus series is, “The Future of Faith.”  The main speaker for the series in author/speaker Brian McLaren.  McLaren is the author of many books including, “A New Kind of Christian“, “A Generous Orthodoxy“, “Everything Must Change“, and most recently, “Finding Our Way Again.”  Time magazine named McLaren one of the 25 most influential evangelicals in 2007. 

White Library is open during the Focus Series, but we encourage students to attend to all scheduled Focus Series events.

Focus 2009 schedule

Tuesday, Feb. 24

  • 5:00 p.m. – dinner with Brian McLaren
  • 7:00 p.m. – Keynote address by Brian McLaren
    Spring Arbor Free Methodist Church

Wednesday, Feb. 25

  • 8:00 a.m. – Workshops – various speakers will speak at locations across campus; check back for updated information
  • 9:00 a.m. – Workshops – various speakers will speak at locations across campus; check back for updated information
  • 10:15 a.m. – David Kinnaman presents “The Future of Faith”
    SAFMC
  • 1:30 p.m. – Kevin DeYoung presents “Ask Not What You Can Do For God: A Critique of Emergent Theology”
    White Auditorium
  • 2:45 p.m. – David Kinnaman presents “Measuring Faith with Numbers”
    White Auditorium
  • 3:45 p.m. – Cookie Coffee Chat
    Location: TBA
 — Robbie Bolton

Trial access to Twayne Authors database

Check out Twayne’s Authors Online and let us know how you like it.  The trial will be active until March 12th.

Twayne’s Authors Online includes more than 600 books from the following
 acclaimed Twayne Author series: Twayne’s World Authors, Twayne’s English Authors, and Twayne’s U.S. Authors. Covering authors universally studied in high schools 
and colleges, Twayne’s Authors Online is the ideal starting point for research papers on works and figures, special projects, and presentations. Students can quickly find targeted results by searching for a specific author or 
exploring thematic and chronological topics. 

–Robbie Bolton

Welcome

Welcome to the first posting of the White Library blog at Spring Arbor University!

My name is Robbie Bolton, and I am the new Education Librarian at Spring Arbor University. In 1998, I graduated from Spring Arbor College with a degree in History and Education. I recently completed a Master’s of Science in Information degree from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. For the past year and a half I served the White Library as an adjunct Reference Librarian and prior to joining the Library faculty full time this January, I worked for 7 years at SAU in Residence Life in Ormston Hall.

As the Education Librarian, I hope to provide quality library service to students and faculty in the School of Education. I also serve as library liaison to the following departments: Communication, HHPR, Nursing, Social Work, and Sociology.

I will be adding library news and information to this blog throughout the semester. Check back often to see what is happening at the White Library!

–Robbie Bolton, Education Librarian

Nursing & Health

Go back to Subject Guides.

Assigned Course Articles

Library Instructional Session Handouts

Research:

Health Article Databases

  • CINAHL Complete (Nursing) – Definitive database for nursing and allied health research. Contains full text access to more than 1,300 indexed journals.
  • Nursing & Allied Health Source (ProQuest) Find complete, full-text information from leading nursing, allied health, and related publications. Designed to meet the needs of researchers at health-care facilities as well as students enrolled in nursing and allied health programs at academic institutions.  This database includes Evidence-Based Resources from the Joanna Briggs Institute — Systematic Reviews, Evidence Summaries, and Best Practice Information Sheets for nursing and the allied health professions.
  • Health Reference Center Academic (Gale InfoTrac)
  • Health Management (ProQuest) Coverage for around 800 key journals with over 4,500 Doctoral Dissertations and Theses.
  • Nursing and Allied Health Collection (Gale InfoTrac)
  • PMC (PubMed Central) – A free archive of life science journals from the National Institues of Health (NIH)
  • Ovid– A small set of full-text nursing journals.  It includes the Journal of Christian Nursing, Nurse Educator, Nurse Practitioner, Nursing Research, Nursing Administration Quarterly, Home Healthcare Nurse, and JONA’s Healthcare Law, Ethics, & Regulation.
  • Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations

Health Subject Directories

Government Resources: Local, State & Federal

Nursing, Medicine & Health Related Websites

Publications, Open Access

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR):

Statistical Sites

Additional Resources