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Celebrate!

holidays December 19, 2011 Frances Yates, Library Resources, Matt Dilworth mdilwort

The winter season is a time of celebrating across many cultures. As always, your campus library has plenty to read to learn about these celebrations. Books like Chase’s Calendar of Events (REF D11.5.C48 2012) and e-books such as We Are What We Celebrate: Understanding Holidays and Rituals or Holidays On Display offer excellent information, as do reference sources like Britannica Online. And databases with strong religion sections like JSTOR offer numerous excellent articles about these and other holidays. Some of these celebration around the world you may like to discover include: Bodhi Day (Buddhist) celebrates the day that Buddha achieved enlightenment. It is on December 8th. Boxing Day (secular) is a gift-giving holiday that is sometimes merged or replaced … Continued

Where has the time gone?

archives, reference databases December 12, 2011 Library Resources, Mandi Moning admin 0 Comments

Would you like to take a fresh approach to American history research? Have you considered looking at primary sources? Many primary resources can be found on your own computer through the IU East Campus Library! We have many interesting databases that could be used for a broad range of topics. Here are just a few: North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories This database can provide you with a personalized account of the life of immigrants in North America. Browse the collection by year, country of origin, personal event such as education or religious experience, nationality, or author. This database has it all – images, writings, and oral histories! Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment … Continued

Nursing Searching

e-resources, nursing, reference databases, scholarly resources November 7, 2011 Library Resources, Matt Dilworth mdilwort

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

Ancient history… or Archival Wonders?!?

archives October 31, 2011 Library Resources, Mandi Moning admin 0 Comments

Did you know? the Indiana University East Archives houses the student newspapers all the way back to the 1970s the Archives contains oral histories documenting a variety of local history topics, including Starr Gennett the Archives has thousands of photographs of IU East from its beginnings in 1971and they are accessible online: www.flickr.com/iuelibrary the physical Archives is located at the Campus Library in Hayes room 101 As the library’s archivist my goal is to increase awareness of and accessibility to the IU East Archives. At a recent workshop hosted by the Society of Indiana Archivists we discussed strategies for organizing collections more with finding. “Finding Aids” describe a collection, including its content, the timeframe covered within the collection, and … Continued

Research is our Business

e-resources, good information October 17, 2011 Library Resources, Matt Dilworth mdilwort

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