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Bog Child and Breast Cancer Awareness

books, breast cancer, reading for pleasure October 25, 2010 books, Caitlin Tracey-Miller ctraceym 0 Comments

Sometimes you come across a book that grabs you and holds you from the first page until the last. Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd, winner of the Carnegie Medal in Literature in 2009, is one of these books. One of the many wonderful books available in the IU East Campus Library’s Young Adult collection, this beautifully written novel captures two times in one place. It is set in Northern Ireland in 1981, during the violence and upheaval known as “The Troubles.” Fergus McCann is struggling to finish his exams and plan for his future, but finds himself continually distracted by the chaos around him. His older brother joins a prison Hunger Strike and Fergus struggles to understand his own place … Continued

New Software in the Library

IUWare, study rooms October 18, 2010 Library Services, Matt Dilworth, Uncategorized mdilwort

If you’re a regular to the library, you know about our study rooms — a great place to watch a video or work on a group project. And now there are even more possibilities. Room 145 has been equipped with the Dragon Naturally Speaking software, a speech-recognition tool, courtesy of our friends in Student Support Services. If typing a paper is difficult or uncomfortable for you, Dragon can ease the problem. You speak into the program naturally, and it figures out word spacing and the commands you give it, translating them into text. The program has a brief setup phase where it acclimates itself to your unique voice – and that profile grows and strengthens as you continue to use … Continued

The Un-Wikipedia

e-resources, reference databases October 11, 2010 Library Resources, Matt Dilworth mdilwort

Have you ever been researching a topic for class and really needed an encyclopedia? We’ve all been there, and often we click to Wikipedia. That sometimes is okay for getting you familiar with a topic, but for academic purposes, that source just isn’t reliable enough….even according to that online encyclopedia’s founder! (http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Wikipedia-Founder-Discourages/2305) Fortunately, the IU East Campus Library subscribes to Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. This is a thorough and reliable encyclopedia assembled, like the old paper version, by the best minds in their fields. Like many of the resources IU East subscribes to, it has been rigorously peer-reviewed and verified for accuracy. Wikipedia is produced by its users – some are quite smart, others not so much. The Encyclopaedia Britannica counts some … Continued

The Right Cite

e-resources, reference databases October 4, 2010 Matt Dilworth, Research mdilwort

So, it’s a third of the way into the semester, and you have some papers coming due. Research papers. And you need to cite your sources. Well, there are many helpful aids to doing that. We have the style manuals at the library’s front desk that you can use. And we, and our colleagues in the Writing Lab, are glad to help you figure them out. There’s the Online Writing Lab at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/, which is great for getting you through MLA or APA style. And there’s RefWorks, a program we subscribe to that will help you generate whole reference lists. But for a lot of things, references are even simpler than all that! For many of our databases, citations can … Continued

Scholastic and AR

children's books September 27, 2010 Frances Yates, Library Resources fyates 0 Comments

Help the library earn FREE children’s books! Now it’s easier than ever to find good books for the children in your life AND help expand the children’s book collection at the IU East campus library. Here’s how it works. Visit the Scholastic website www.scholastic.com/bookclubs and register for an account. When prompted, enter this code: H62HQ. There is no minimum order required and you will find a large selection of books to choose from. Each time you place an order online, the library earns FREE books! Contact Frances (fyates@iue.edu) with any questions or just stop by the circulation desk. The first order deadline is September 28 and books can be picked up at the library when they arrive. Thank you … Continued