Monday, October 22, 2012

Film Documentaries via Filmmaker's Library Online!

Explore over 1,000 independent films and issue-based documentaries in Filmaker's Library. Multidisciplinary in scope, this streaming media collection covers race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more! View many award-winning films, such as:

Child Marriage: A tradition continues in Africa
First Contact: Hypnosis and beyond
The Minutemen: Vigilantes at the border
Special Features:
  • Transcripts run alongside each video.
  • Playlist functionality that allows one to create, annotate and organize clips and include links to other content.
  • Permanent URLs let users cite and share whole videos, clips and playlists
  • Embeddable video player for delivering video content via course management systems
  • Permissions for in-class, on-campus and remote-access viewing included in the subscription
Check out this new streaming media collection!

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Now OPEN in the IEB!

The Library is now OPEN in the new Integrated Educated Building!
IE-1115

"From Information to Inspiration"

Library Hours
Monday-Thursday: 8am-8pm
Friday: 8am-4pm
Saturday: 9am-noon

New amentities include:
  • 32 Student use computers [requires login with MEID]
  • Natural lighting
  • New InfoLab classroom with 40 computers for information literacy instruction
  • 2 Quiet study rooms, for individuals who desire quiet
    • IE-1113 seats up to 6 (tablet arm chairs)
    • IE-1118 seats up to 8 (table and caster chairs)
  • 6 Group study rooms for collaborative work
  • WiFi connection for our students and staff [requires login with MEID]
Some services are not yet available in our new location, but we hope to have them available soon:
  • Computers for the general public [Note: Career Services (IE-1234) has computers for job related needs, such as resumes and job searching]

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Library Is Now MOVED into the IEB.


The Library was CLOSED in July, through the beginning of August.
We packed up the Library and moved the collection.

Never fear, eResources are here! Please visit the virtual Library to access our multitude of electronic resources: http://www.gatewaycc.edu/Academic/Library




Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Cite It Right, with EasyBib!

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Cite it Right, the Easy way….

Start using EasyBib,: a valuable tool to cite and manage sources for writing papers and to avoid plagiarism. No matter what assignment you are working on, and whatever types of information resources you are citing, EasyBib can handle them!

Key Features:
  • Covers APA, MLA, and Chicago/Turabian documentation styles
  • Generate a citation from over 58 types of sources, with prompts to assist you
  • Track and save your work (Register & setup your account)
  • Ability to create multiple projects for different papers/assignments
  • Context sensitive help and online tutorials based on "the rules" to guide you
  • Generate a book citation from just the ISBN, a website from its URL, an article with a DOI, and more
  • Save as a Google Doc or Print as Word document
  • No advertisements
Documentation in Three Steps:
  1. Cite your sources
  2. Build your bibliography as you go
  3. Print or export it to Word or GoogleDocs!

You will still need to review and modify the citations, as the content is only as good as what you supply;or what data is pulled from the provider.

This is definitely a tool you can use! Keep track of your research and sources and generate your bibliographies on the fly. Compiling your bibliographies just got easier, with EasyBib.

Stop by the Library Reference Desk for an EasyBib lesson!