Library's Digitized Books on Women Religious Added to Internet Archive

The library's books from the latest proposal for CARLI's Book Digitization Initiative, Women Religious in the United States, have been added to the Internet Archive. Previous digitized items included multiple volumes of several Catholic periodicals, such as the Franciscan Herald and Catholic Fortnightly Review.

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For citation management and to assist you in constructing bibliographies, the library recommends Zotero. Zotero is a free download that functions as an add-on to the Firefox Internet browser. There are a few recommended tutorials on Zotero on the library's tutorial page. If you would like some assistance installing Zotero on your laptop, contact Lisa Gonzalez in the library.

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You can personalize Google Scholar to make it easier to find resources that are available to you through CTU's library. If you are off campus, follow Google's directions for setting your preferences so that links to CTU resources will appear in your Google Scholar search results. These links will appear automatically if you are using Google Scholar while on campus.

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The library has added JSTOR's 19th Century British Pamphlets collection to its collection of online resources. These pamphlets will provide access to primary sources from UK research libraries that have not been available online before. To access this collection, click here. The pamphlet collection can also be searched as part of library's entire JSTOR collection.

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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.

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The library is testing a federated search engine that will allow you to search the content of all of our electronic books at the same time. This search is available at this link: http://wfxsearch.webfeat.org/wfsearch/search?cid=11091. The search is also available on the library's toolbar, which can be downloaded at the library's home page at http://www.ctu.lib.il.us/.

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The library's next walk-in workshop will be Friday, February 27th, from 10-11am in Room 304. This workshop will give an overview of areas in the health sciences that have interdisciplinary applications, including psychology and public health, and which are of interest to the CTU community. We will highlight the library’s print and online resources in the areas of the health sciences, discuss alternatives to major resources in these areas that are not owned by our library, and options for accessing other resources.

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The library will be conducting two walk-in workshops in February. The new library resources workshop will give a brief overview of some of the resources the library has added over the past year, such as JSTOR, online encyclopedias, eHRAF World Cultures, SFX, and more. The introduction to library resources for health sciences workshop will give an overview of areas in the health sciences that have interdisciplinary applications, including psychology and public health, and which are of interest to the CTU community. Walk-ins are welcome, but we invite you to sign up at the library front desk so that we will know how many people to expect.

New Library Resources Workshop
Tuesday, February 17th, 10am-11am in Room 504

Introduction to Library Resources for Health Sciences
Friday, February 27th, 10am-11am in Room 304

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The library has added a new database of electronic documents called eHRAF World Cultures. This database is a cross-cultural database that contains information on all aspects of cultural and social life. The annually growing eHRAF database is unique in that the information is organized by cultures and ethnic groups and the full-text documents are subject-indexed at the paragraph level. Check out this new database on the library's web page for electronic books and reference works at http://www.ctu.lib.il.us/find-books-and-other-materials.

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For quick access to popular search engines and library resources, check out the library's new toolbar. The toolbar can be installed in your web browser by visiting http://ctulibilus.mylibrarytoolbar.com. The toolbar includes a button linking to CTU's phone directory, and searches for several library catalogs, as well as Google Books, are available in the search box. Ask a librarian for more information on how to make the most of this toolbar.

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ATLASerials and CPLI do not have much overlap. American Theological Library Association and Catholic Library Association (the people that create CPLI) have an agreement that they will not index the same journals, so only the few that were duplicated in the past are in both. ATLASerials indexes only a handful of Catholic journals, so if you are trying to do a comprehensive search or one that provides a Catholic viewpoint, you should search both databases. You can search both databases at the same time! Ask me how!

...how you can ask me about ATLA Serials and CPLI (or any other reference or research question you have). Email, phone, make an appointment, stop by on a whim, leave a comment on this blog, and possibly by end of summer, IM.