Monday, May 11, 2009

I Want You to Know...

JSTOR has recently added several titles to the library's collection of online journals. Click on the titles below to view these new journals.

The Belfast Monthly Magazine

The Catholic Layman

The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

I Want You to Know...

You can add a bookmarklet to your web browser to make it easy to see if the library owns a book before you purchase it on Amazon. To install the bookmarklet, go to the website http://xisbn.worldcat.org/liblook2/index.htm and search for Catholic Theological Union. After the search is complete, drag the bookmarklet from your results to your browser's toolbar.If you use Firefox, you will need the Bookmarks Toolbar checked under View. To try out the bookmarklet, click on it the next time you are in Amazon looking at the web page for a particular book.

Monday, May 4, 2009

I Want You to Know...

The library has added the Chicago Manual of Style Online to assist students with constructing proper citations for assignments. You can browse the manual or search the contents, and a Quick Guide is provided to give examples of citations for the most common types of materials. The manual can be accessed at http://ezproxy.ctu.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html.

Friday, May 1, 2009

I Want You to Know...

The library provides many national and local newspapers online through Ebsco’s Newspaper Source. Go to http://ezproxy.ctu.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?profile=ehost to see descriptions of all of the library’s databases, and scroll down to Newspaper Source. Click on the database to search for news, or click on the title list to see which newspapers are included in this database.