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MCC LIBRARY MAY LOSE ELEVEN DATABASES ON FEBRUARY 28, 2008
One casualty of the New Jersey budget cuts may be eleven databases Middlesex County College Library receives free of charge from the New Jersey State Library.
Funding for the databases was provided to academic libraries and some small businesses starting in 2005 under the State Library’s New Jersey Knowledge Initiative. The 2008 State budget originally included $3 million to continue database access, however $1 million was cut during budget negotiations. Unless funding is restored, the databases will “disappear” on February 28, 2008, the end of the databases’ contracts.
What databases will be affected?
Most of the databases affected are in the science and business subject areas, although the “workhorse” of all of MCC Library’s databases, Academic Search Premier, is also in danger of being eliminated. Below is the list of all of the databases that may disappear on February 28, 2008:
Academic Search Pr-emier
Biomedical Reference Collection
Business Source Premier
CINAHL
Lippincott & Wilkins Core Medical Journals
Medline (EBSCOhost)
Nature Online Journals
Nursing & Allied Health Collection
RefUSA
Regional Business News
Wiley Interscience
MCC Library could not afford to continue these databases from our own budget. (Nature Online Journals alone would cost $55,000 per year!)
What can you do to help?
Please call Governor Corzine's office at (609) 292-6000 and request that he restore $1 million for the New Jersey Knowledge Initiative (NJKI).
Students and faculty in higher education throughout New Jersey will appreciate your help.
THANK YOU!
360 SEARCH ARRIVES!
After much delay, new software will allow simultaneous searching across 20 selected MCC Library databases beginning this Spring semester.
The new “ 360 Search” software will provide an easy one-step look at the databases that provide the most information on a particular search and a look at results across disciplines. View and print from “360” or go directly into a particular database to refine a search.With most students going directly to Google for their research, we hope that “360 Search” will provide students with an easy avenue to the quality resources available on MCC Library’s website.
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iBISTRO FEATURES EXPANDED
MCC Library’s catalog, iBistro now includes the book titles that are on order.
Titles that are on order will display a call number that begins with “XXX” and location as “On Order”.
In addition, a “New Arrivals” link at the top of the search will provide a list of all new titles added to our collection within the last month. Click on the title to check MCC Library’s call number and status.
iBistro’s “Movies” link allows you to limit your search to any VHS, DVD, or Streaming video in the Library and Media Departments. Other links provide access to our collection of e-books and the audio books available through ListenNJ.
SPRING ESL BOOK CLUB TITLES SELECTED
The MCC Foundation provided grant funding to continue MCC Library’s ESL Book Club.
Thanks to the Foundation’s generous grant, two ESL Book Club sessions will run in both the Fall and Spring semesters.
Open to ESL students taking 085, 094, or 099 ESL classes, and ESL course graduates, the ESL Book Club is designed to provide students with an opportunity to practice reading and speaking, in English, in a relaxed atmosphere.
Up to 15 students will meet on three alternate Mondays from 11:15AM-12:15PM to discuss a selection of short stories from “ Imagining America: Stories from the Promised Land”. Up to 15 additional students will discuss “Funny in Farsi” by Firoozeh Dumas on three alternate Wednesdays from 2PM-3PM.
“BEST READS” REDUX
MCC Library will once again ask for your favorite book of 2007.
Last year, biography, history, poetry, and many varieties of fiction genres were submitted as the “Best Read” by faculty and staff members at MCC.
Any book that you read in 2007 is eligible “Best Reads”, in other words it does not have to have been published in 2007.
Books accompanied by entrants’ comments will be on display in the Library at the beginning of March 2008. Watch for the announcement.
Anyone submitting a “Best Reads” recommendation will receive an advance copy of the title list before the Library Display and title list are available to the public.
Forms are available in the Library, distributed at the first day of faculty obligation and will appear in FYI and on the Infonet.
Entries should be dropped off or mailed to the Library–Reference Desk by February 15, 2008
One entry per person please.
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