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The library is giving away flash drives to library users willing to spend 30-45 minutes evaluating the library catalog. Will you consider volunteering to help us improve our catalog? To sign up, ask in the library for more information, or email us.

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If you have a Mac and use Firefox, Ebsco has a new plugin you will need to view PDFs from databases such as ATLA. Visit Ebsco's support site for more information about this plugin.

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JSTOR has added additional journals to the library's Ireland Collection. The JSTOR collection of full text journals can be searched in their entirety, and the contents of individual journals can also be searched.
New Journals:
Ulster Journal of Archaeology
History Ireland

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The library has an additional version of WorldCat.org called WorldCat Local. This version of WorldCat places CTU's library holdings at the top of the search results. A link to order items through interlibrary loan is also available for books in I-Share libraries. To try out WorldCat Local, visit ctulibrary.worldcat.org. On campus users of WorldCat.org also have the option to choose WorldCat Local.

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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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The CARLI consortium has purchased an e-book collection for health and medicine for academic libraries in Illinois. To access the collection, go to SpringerLink's Medicine collection and click on "Books" under Content Type on the right hand side of the screen. Items that are available will have a the check box in front of the item marked in green.

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All are invited to attend the library’s after hours movie night on Friday, February 26th at 7p.m. The film will be Tulpan, a film directed by Sergei Dvortsevoy. On the steppes of Kazakhstan, a young sailor returns from the Russian Navy, tries to establish himself as a herdsmen, and win the hand of the only girl around for miles. A brief discussion time will follow the movie.