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Learn to Use RefWorks, Take a Workshop

RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that helps you compile, edit and format bibliographies. You can either import references directly from online databases or enter them manually and insert them into your finished paper in the citation style of your choice (eg. APA, MLA).

The Killam is offering a series of hands-on “RefWorks Basics” workshops this fall. Space is limited and registration is required, so sign up now! The first one is next Thursday. Here’s our complete fall schedule:

Saturday September 18, 11:00am – 12:30pm THIS SESSION IS FULL!

Wednesday September 22, 10:00am – 11:30am THIS SESSION IS FULL!

Saturday, September 25, 11:00am-12:30pm THIS SESSION IS FULL!

Monday September 27, 11:00am – 12:30pm THIS SESSION IS FULL!

Tuesday October 5, 10:00am – 11:30am

WHERE? Room G70, North Learning Commons, main floor of the Killam
HOW? Register online indicating which of the sessions you wish to attend.

What’s the Smartest Thing You Can Do in Your First Year at Dal?

Learn to use the library of course!

We guarantee you’ll “work smarter” if you get to know us now. Find out how you can:

Impress your friends and wow your profs with your library savvy. Explore our website, drop in to check out our Learning Commons, and say Hi to your friendly librarian as you pass the Ref Desk. We’re looking forward to working with you this year!

Political Science Complete: Trial Database

* Trial ends October 31, 2010 *

Political Science Complete contains full text for over 480 journals, and indexing and abstracts for nearly 2,100 titles (including top-ranked scholarly journals), such as British Politics, Ethnopolitics and the Journal of Women, Politics & Policy. PSC has a worldwide focus, reflecting the globalization of contemporary political discourse.

The database also features 330 full-text reference books and monographs, and over 36,000 full-text conference papers, including those of the International Political Science Association. PSC includes a subject-specific thesaurus with over 17,500 terms.

Take a look now and let us know what you think of this product!

Killam Library Tours

What’s the smartest thing you can do starting or coming back to university this fall? Take a library tour!

We’re offering weekday and evening tours of the Killam this September, with one in October for procrastinators. It’s a half hour well spent, and we’d love to meet you. Print copies of the schedule are on the handout counter and the display table in the lobby. Check out the Killam Tours webpage for other options if you don’t have time for a scheduled tour.

WEEKDAY TOURS
Thurs. Sept. 16, 3 pm
Mon. Sept. 20, 11 am
Thurs. Sept. 30, 11:30 am
Wed. Oct. 6, 10:30 am

EVENING TOURS
All tours begin at 7 pm
Tuesday Sept.14
Wednesday Sept. 22
Tuesday Sept. 28

Grey Bins = Greener Libraries

The Dalhousie Libraries Green Team is on the move again, and the Killam Library will be the greener for their efforts.

Last March the Team ran a pilot project dubbed “We Took Garbage Cans Off Our Bucket List,” in which they replaced garbage cans in the second floor atrium hallway with sets of grey PROG bins (Paper, Recycling, Organics and Garbage). This turned out to be such a success that they’re doing it again. All the garbage cans in the South and North Learning Commons on the main floor, in the lobby, the second floor Learning Commons, and the atrium hallways on floors 3 – 5 have now been replaced with grey bins.

Stats from the Bucket List pilot show that garbage waste was reduced from 85% to 25% when the sorting stations were installed on the second floor last March. Students working in the area were enthusiastic about the project, and we hope they embrace the green again in the Killam Learning Commons and on other floors.

Thank you 2010 Green Team members Linda Bedwell, Michelle Paon, Janice Slauenwhite, Jan Pelley, Leigh Smith and Sandy Dwyer!

Alternative Press Index

Until last April the Libraries subscribed to the Alternative Press Index through OCLC, but our subscription has now been switched over to Ebsco. This is just to alert users of the change of platform.

Alternative Press Index (API) is a bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 500 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. Born of the New Left, the API was launched in 1969 to provide access to the emerging theories and practices of radical social change. The API also covers:

  • Ecology
  • Democracy and Anarchism
  • Feminism and Organized Labor
  • Indigenous Peoples and Gays/Lesbians
  • Comprehensive Coverage of Alternative Sources

With over 330,000 records, the Alternative Press Index is considered the most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to alternative sources of information online. It’s available to Dal users both on and off campus, so check it out for yourself!

SpringerMaterials: Trial Database

Trial ends October 31, 2010

Springer is offering the Dal Libraries trial access to SpringerMaterials, their latest content platform of selected and critically-assessed data in all areas of physical sciences & engineering. Content includes:

  • 60,000 online documents
  • more than 120,000 figures
  • over 1 mIllion literature references and over 65,000 keywords

SpringerMaterial covers these subjects:

  • Particles, Nuclei and Atoms
  • Molecules and Radicals
  • Electronic Structure and Transport
  • Magnetism
  • Semiconductivity and Superconductivity
  • Crystallography
  • Thermodynamics
  • Multiphase Systems
  • Advanced Materials
  • Advanced Technologies
  • Astro- and Geophysics

Find out more about SpringerMaterials, or start exploring this database now.

Please let us know what you think!

Campus Green Guide at Killam

Hot off the press, the College of Sustainability’s 2010 Campus Green Guide is now available at the Killam. Find out all about “Toxins in Everyday Life,” “Urban Gardening”, and our fave: “How to Party Sustainably,” along with tons of other cools tips like what cafes in Halifax offer Fair Trade, organic and vegetarian/vegan fare.

Look for copies of the Campus Green Guide in the rack at the foot of the stairs in the library lobby.

And by the way, libraries were born green. The access we provide to thousands of online journals mean you don’t need to waste paper and energy printing articles–and all our books get Reused and Recycled every day!

Confraternitas: Ejournal Trial Access

The Dalhousie Libraries are offering our users a full year of free trial access to the electronic journal Confraternitas. This is a refereed journal about Medieval and Early Modern confraternities (pre-1700) published twice yearly. It contains brief articles, news and notes of interest to colleagues, notices of forthcoming conferences or papers, and general queries. It is published for The Society for Confraternity Studies by the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, and is made available on the Iter platform.

Access the new journal at the main Iter resources page, or link directly to to Confraternitas.

Let us know what you think about this resource!

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