Matt Dilworth

Matt Dilworth

Last Minute Research

Last Minute Research

, Library Services, Matt Dilworth, Research
This time of year, with everything we have to do, a lot seems to get pushed to the last minute.  Last minute shopping, last minute decorating, last minute cooking, last minute cleaning… and last minute research.  We’ve all been there.  A big assignment, and it’s coming due… but we haven’t had time to do the research yet. It isn’t an ideal situation.  And just like last minute shoppers have to deal with picked-over stores, your options will be a bit more limited.  But fear not – you can still do great research and turn in a great project. Obviously, if your assignment is due tomorrow, using Interlibrary Loan won’t help.  So you’re limited to resources available right now.  But there’s … Continued
Nursing Searching

Nursing Searching

, , , Library Resources, Matt Dilworth
Are you starting research on a nursing or medical topic, but unsure where to begin?  Let the library help!  We provide you with access to a lot of cutting-edge scholarship that will make your research easier.  The EBSCO databases CINAHL, MedLine, Health Source Nursing, and Health Source Consumer are a great place to begin.  These databases let you limit your results to things like only full text articles, peer-reviewed articles, or articles published in the last few years.    Say your topic is relationship-based care.  This search gives you over 100 scholarly, full text articles, published in the last ten years.  Or try this search for information about care plans.  Or this one for respecting Islamic practices in end-of-life care. … Continued
Research is our Business

Research is our Business

, Library Resources, Matt Dilworth
Are you starting research in a business topic?  The library subscribes to a lot of business-oriented databases that would be good for you.  For business news, try the EBSCO databases Business Source Premier, Corporate Resource Net, and Communications and Mass Media. You can limit your results to things like full text articles, peer-reviewed articles, and articles published in the last few years.  For example, this search for corporate research into consumer behavior came up with over three hundred articles.  You can also find SWOT analyses, like these for the Ford Motor Company.  If you don’t find enough of what you need in EBSCO, other good business databases include ABI/INFORM or Business and Company Resource Center.  Run similar searches in them for … Continued
The Golden Door

The Golden Door

Matt Dilworth, Programs
We are excited to announce that the library is hosting “Emma Lazarus: Voice of Liberty, Voice of Conscience,” a traveling exhibition documenting the life and influence of the social activist who wrote the famous poem on the Statue of Liberty: “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”       Other exhibits and displays in the library focus on immigration.  Dr. Joanne Passet has generously loaned artifacts owned by her great grandmother, Annie Townsend Quantic when she immigrated to the United States in 1894. Items include a dressing gown, bible, ship manifest, and photographs. … Continued
Unique spaces to meet your learning needs

Unique spaces to meet your learning needs

Matt Dilworth
We’ve had a busy summer, re-designing and re-purposing library space to get maximum use and to create specialized areas focused on student needs. With another semester of record-breaking enrollment at IU East, the Library provides learning spaces dedicated to both general and specific uses. If you need formal group study space, Hayes 101 is convenient for 10-12 students.  Prefer more informal space?  Try the Library Living Room on the 2nd floor, with its eclectic and comfortable décor, complete with bean bag chairs.  It is open for groups anytime a class is not scheduled to use it (the schedule is posted on the door). And if you need to spread out with your school projects, whether individually or as a group, … Continued