2,546 NetLibrary E-Books Added!

The new electronic books are available in the Library catalog, in Discovery, and at netlibrary.com!

Examples:

Agriculture	Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa
Arts	Philosophy of Cinematic Art
Biology and Life Sciences	Marine Macroecology
Business, Economics and Management	Class War?: What Americans Really Think About Economic Inequality
Chemistry	Biochemical Elements
Computer Science	Agile Testing: How to Succeed in an Extreme Testing Environment
Earth Sciences	Coastal Systems
Education	College Fear Factor: How Students and Professors Misunderstand One Another
History	Buccaneers of the Caribbean: How Piracy Forged an Empire
Language and Linguistics	Words and the Mind: How Words Capture Human Experience
Law	Supreme Court and the American Elite, 1789-2008
Literature	Sex Expression & American Women Writers, 1860-1940
Mathematics and Statistics	Naming Infinity: a True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity
Medicine	New Nurse's Survival Guide
Networking and Telecommunications	CompTIA Network+ Exam Guide
Philosophy	Not Exactly: in Praise of Vagueness
Physics	Quantum Leaps
Political Science	David Ruggles: a Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City
Psychology	Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology
Religion	Sacred Schisms: How Religions Divide
Social Sciences	Red Families V. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture
Sports and Recreation	Research Methods for Sports Studies
Technology, Engineering and Manufacturing	Understanding Flight
Travel and Geography	Travelers' World: Europe to the Pacific

New Print Books in the Library

The Cataloging Librarian has been hard at work fulfilling faculty requests and collection development. Here are just a sample of the new print books recently acquired by the library. Click on a title to go to the catalog to learn more about a title and check availability.

• After Adam Smith: a century of transformation in politics and political economy  
• Aftershock: the ethics of contemporary transgressive art 
• America in Vietnam: the war that couldn't be won  
• American dream dying: the changing economic lot of the least advantaged  
• Brahms and his world  
• Channels of power: the UN Security Council and U.S. statecraft in Iraq  
• Children's literature: classic texts and contemporary trends
• Comfort women: sexual violence and postcolonial memory in Korea and Japan  
• Computing our way to paradise?: the role of internet and communication technologies in sustainable consumption... 
• Disarmed: the missing movement for gun control in America  
• Famous puzzles of great mathematicians
• Historical dictionary of the "dirty wars" 
• Hold on to your dreams: Arthur Russell and the downtown music scene, 1973-1992  
• Inca account of the Conquest of Peru  
• Language of its own: sense and meaning in the making of Western art music  
• Math book: from Pythagoras to the 57th dimension, 250 milestones in the history of mathematics  
• Mexicans in revolution, 1910-1946: an introduction  
• New critical essays on Kurt Vonnegut
• New Silk Road diplomacy: China's central Asian foreign policy since the Cold War  
• Red lights: the lives of sex workers in postsocialist China  
• Selected poems of Garcilaso de la Vega: a bilingual edition
• Superfreakonomics: global cooling, patriotic prostitutes, and why suicide bombers should buy life insurance   
• Tangled bank: an introduction to evolution  
• Technology: a world history  
• Tibet's last stand?: the Tibetan uprising of 2008 and China's response  
• Up from the cradle of jazz: New Orleans music since World War II  
• Vietnam 1946: how the war began  
• Virginia Woolf's ethics of the short story
• Women build the welfare state: performing charity and creating rights in Argentina, 1880-1955  
• Your assignment photography: an interactive resource for students and teachers of photography

New DVDs in the Library

Click a title to learn more and to check availability!

• Annie
• Avatar
• Blind Side
• Butterfield 8
• Calendar Girls
• Children's Hour
• Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears A Who!
• Event Horizon
• Evita
• Fight Club
• Funny Girl
• How Difficult Can This Be? Understanding Learning Disabilities : Frustration, Anxiety, Tension, The F.a.t. City Workshop
• Last House On The Left
• League Of Their Own
• Metropolis 
• Mister Roberts
  
• Night Of The Living Dead
• Night To Remember
• On The Beach
• Pirates Of Penzance
• Ploughman's Lunch
• Poltergeist
• Rainmaker
• Rent
• Sabrina
• Seven Days In May
• Simpsons Movie
• Sleepy Hollow
• Some Like It Hot
• Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
• To Sir, With Love
• Tootsie
• Twilight Zone The Movie
• Up
• Victor Victoria
• White Noise

Introducing a New Way to Search!

EBSCO Discovery Service (a/k/a Quick Search) is a new customized searching experience that allows you to search all of the library's electronic resources simultaneously and provides you with current availability information on library catalog items.

This is a great resource for beginning research, going more in-depth, and even just looking for DVDs. NetLibrary electronic books are available as well and the library is making these available even to off campus access in the coming week (10/25).

Feel free to take it for a spin. You can find a search box on the Library's home (http://voyager.ju.edu) and search boxes are being added to individual subject pages (http://voyager.ju.edu/subjects).

If you have any questions or comments, please don't hesitate to contact the Electronic Resources Librarian (ddebord@ju.edu).

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Looking For A Study Room?

You can ask the Circulation Desk if there are any study rooms available... but you don't have to! Just search the Catalog. It will tell if rooms are open or taken.

Search for "library study room" now.

If the results screen says Charged, then the room is unavailable. If it says Not Charged, it should be available.

Happy studying!

Library Hours for Fall 2010

Swisher Library Hours


The First Week of Classes:
Monday-Thursday, August 23-26: 7:30am-9pm
Friday, August 27: 7:30am-6pm 
Saturday, August 28: 10:00am-5pm

The Second Week (Regular Hours)
Sunday, August 29: 2pm-11pm 
Monday-Thursday, August 31-September 2: 7:30am-9pm
Friday, September 3: 7:30am-6pm
Saturday, September 4: 10:00am-5pm

Labor Day Hours
Sunday, September 5: CLOSED
Monday, September 6: 2pm-11pm
Tuesday-Thursday, September 7-9: 7:30am-11pm
Friday, September 10: 7:30am-6pm
Saturday, September 11: 10:00am-5pm

...Continue Regular Hours (see Second Week above).


View the Library Calendar page

Credo Reference Online adds 18 Titles

18 new titles have been added to Credo Reference Online:

• Encyclopedia of Energy
• Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History
• Key Concepts in Critical Social Theory
• Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications
• The 9/11 Encyclopedia
• The Penguin Dictionary of Science
• A Dictionary of Travel and Tourism Terminology
• Debrett's People of Today 2010
• The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures: New Englandabcarcne2004
• The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures: The Great Plains Regionabcarcgpr2004
• The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures: The Mid-Atlantic Regionabcarcmar2004
• The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures: The Midwestabcarcmw2004
• The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures: The Pacific Regionabcarcpr2004
• The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures: The Rocky Mountain Regionabcarcrmr2004
• The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures: The Southabcarcsouth2004
• The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures: The Southwest
• The Wisden Archive of Cricketers' Lives 2010 

On campus, click a title above to take a look.
Off campus, log in to the Databases page, select Credo Reference, and search for a title.

Summer Library hours June 17-Aug 22

From June 17 to August 22, Swisher Library will be open Monday-Thursday 8am-6pm, Friday 8am-12pm, and will be closed Saturdays and Sundays.

Please note that the Library will also be closed on Monday, July 5th, in observance of Independence Day.

If you have any questions or comments, please call us at 256-7277 or email at library@ju.edu.

Have a great second half of the summer!

And, if you are taking classes, see you in the library!

Trouble accessing databases? Get help.

You can contact the Electronic Resources Librarian at any time via email (ddebord@ju.edu) or phone/message (904-256-7269). You can chat with the Library on the Reference Desk page (pay attention to the Library hours on there).

Feel to contact the Library at any time, but also make sure you notice the Off-Campus instruction links on the Subject pages and other pages. These can save you time!

Ultimately, you want to connect to databases from the secure Databases A-Z page. If you're off-campus right now, you can go there directly right now, sign in with your JU ID and password, and select a database. This can also save you time (and frustration!).

If you need help searching or if you still have trouble, visit the Reference Desk to get in contact.

51,000? ...did you know?...

The library has access to just over 51,000 electronic journal titles! Log in to the Databases page and select A-to-Z (EBSCO) to start searching or browsing titles. If you click the Search tab, you can search by Title, Publisher Name, ISSN, or Subject.

Remember, this resource is for finding a particular journal. If you don't have a specific journal in mind but need to find articles, take a look at the Resources by Subject pages to see the appropriate databases to start searching.

Library summer hours...

The library will be closed Saturday, May 1 for Commencement. Congratulations graduates!

Here are the upcoming hours for the library:
     May 2 (Sunday): Closed.
     May 3-6 (Monday-Thursday): 8am-6pm
     May 7 (Friday): 8am-12pm
     May 8 (Saturday): Closed
     May 9 (Sunday): Closed, Happy Mother's Day

May 10: begin regular summer hours:
      Monday-Thursday: 8am-9pm
      Friday: 8am-12pm
      Saturday: 10am-5pm
      Sunday: 2pm-9pm

Hey! Are you still on campus? Fine forgiveness continues through April 30!

Finished with finals? Got overdue library books? Find some books under a pile of clothes you haven't touched since last semester? Be sure to bring them in by 6pm on Friday, April 30 to get your fines forgiven!

Amnesty Days April 18-30 (Fines Forgiven!)

OVERDUE no more!

Found some books under your bed or in your car??? Return them to the library and pay no late charges during the Library’s Amnesty Days!!! If you are graduating, make sure that your Library record is clear.

This does not apply to Reserve Materials.

OvidSP Nursing Introduces Enhancements

OvidSP Nursing has released a new platform. It features a streamlined look with more noticeable links for exporting citations, accessing individual journals, and limiting your search to a particular time period, in addition to many other new features.
Click here for a fact sheet.
Click here for a quick reference card.


Click here to give it a try! (Off-campus? Log in here and then select OvidSP.)

Remember: search Jacksonville University Full Text Nursing Journals to limit your results to full text.

Additionally, you also have access to Books@Ovid - nursing texts and manuals in full text online. (Off-campus? Log in here and, after you've selected OvidSP, you'll see a link for Books@Ovid.)

The Library now opens at 7:30am (Monday-Friday)!

Swisher Library will now open Monday through Friday at 7:30am! In response to student requests, we are pleased to be able to make this change. It should prove beneficial not only to students but to the JU community as a whole.

Additionally, as the end of the semester approaches, keep in mind that the library will be open until midnight, Monday through Thursday, during “dead week” and finals week. View the calendar here.

The library will also continue its annual tradition to provide coffee, tea, hot chocolate, and cookies in the front lobby during library hours during "dead week" and finals.

65 New Titles added to Credo Reference Online

Credo Reference now offers 490 unique titles available in full-text online. This resource has very good coverage of reference materials in a wide range of subjects. For example, the new titles include:

All things Chaucer

A-Z of social research

Biographical dictionary of transcendentalism

Continuum encyclopedia of popular music of the world

Dictionary of forensic psychology

Dictionary of literary symbols

Feminist philosophies A-Z

Great military lives

Philosophy of science A-Z

Power and succession in Arab monarchies

Praeger handbook of Latino education in the U.S.

On-campus, simply click here to go to Credo Reference and search for a title. Off-campus, click here to log in to the Databases page, select Credo Reference and search for a title. These reference works can also be found in the Catalog where you search for print resources, DVDs, etc.

EBSCOhost Mobile Interface Now Available

EBSCOhost has launched an interface for Internet-capable handheld devices, including iPhone, Blackberry, Android, and Treo. Search 16 databases:

Academic Search Premier
Business Source Premier
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Communication & Mass Media Complete
ERIC
GreenFILE
Humanities International Complete
International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text
Literary Reference Center
Mental Measurements Yearbook
PsycARTICLES
PsycINFO
Regional Business News
SocINDEX with Full Text
Teacher Reference Center
Tests in Print

Find the username and password on the Databases Page under the EBSCOhost Mobile entry. After you get the username and password, you can also connect via the Swisher Library mobile site (voyager.ju.edu/m) on your mobile device.

Grove Music Online Updated

Grove Music Online, a resource within Oxford Music Online, has recently been updated with 100 new articles. These entries precede the forthcoming second edition of the Grove Dictionary of American Music, which is widely considered the definitive reference work on music. The updates include articles on organizations; biographies; and bibliographies.

Access Grove Music Online via Oxford Music Online, where you can also access The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music. If you're on-campus, click the link above to get started. If you're off-campus, log in to the Databases page and select Oxford Music Online from the A-Z list.