In addition to the recently purchased “Social Work Abstracts”, the library has also recently purchased online access to the “Encyclopedia of Social Work.” Both can also be accessed via the “article databases” page from the Library website.
While we own the print version of the to the Encyclopedia of Social Work in the reference section of the library, having access to the online edition will give greater access to this information for off-campus students.
The library just gained access to this new database, Social Work Abstracts. You’ll note the word “abstract” in the title. This is not a database that has full-text access to the articles you will find, but it reviews over 500 U.S. and international journals and publishes approximately 900 abstracts each quarter. You can search Social Work Abstracts going back all the way to 1960.
If you have been to the library this fall and have noticed things are a bit different; there is something just “not right” about the library it is because we are missing our Reference and Public Services Librarian, Karen Parsons.
Karen is on sabbatical this semester and is in Burundi volunteering with Hope Africa University where she will be helping with the library and training librarians. She will there until December and return to SAU january 2010. If you want to keep up with Karen while she in Burundi, you can follow her blog.
Helping us at the library this Fall in Karen’s abscence in Reference Librarian, Mary Kelly. Mary comes to us from the Salem-South Lyon District Library where she is the Adult & Teen Librarian. In addition to her duties at Salem-South Lyon District Library and at SAU, Mary maintains two blogs, The Practical Librarian and an Awful Library Books. She was recently interview by Michigan Public Radio about the Awful Library Books blog. When you see Mary at the reference desk, please welcome her to Spring Arbor.
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Welcome back to school to our on-campus students. Athletes are already on campus, as are stduent leaders. New students will be moving in on Monday, Sept 7th and classes begin on Sept. 10th.
With the recent media attention given the Swine Flu, Ebsco Publishing through one of their databases, DynaMed has made information on the Swine Flu freely available. You
can access this information here: http://hldemo.ebscohost.com/DynaMed-SwineFlu/
“DynaMed is a point-of-care reference resource designed to provide
clinicians with the best available evidence to support clinical
decision-making. DynaMed is part of the suite of medical products owned and provided by EBSCO Publishing and is updated daily by monitoring medical literature sources”
–Robbie Bolton
Recently, the Teacher Education Workroom purchased the equipment to make stickers and magnets. Amazingly, the cost is only $1 per 8.5 x 11 sheet of magnets or stickers. We are probably losing money on this, but the cost will remain only $1 per sheet for the remainder of the school year and the summer. In all liklihood, stickers and magnets will see a slight increase in cost for to start the Fall of ’09. The point: make your magnets and stickers now before prices increase in the Fall!
Main campus will be on spring break next week. March 14-March22. However, the library will still be open. Here are the hours over spring break.
The library now has access to this databse. http://www.hsdl.org A link to on the Library database page has not been added yet, but will be soon. Here is a short description from their website about the information available here.
