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Searching the catalog but don't have a scrap of paper handy? Can't find a pen? Always losing those little notes you write down? Can't remember a Library of Congress call number?

WORRY NO MORE!

Now you can send the title, location, and callnumber of a book to your cellphone! Once you've brought up the record for an item, simply choose your cellphone provider and enter your cellphone number and the information will be texted* to your phone!

* The Library is not repsonsible for any carrier charges that may be inccured.

Would you like a refresher on how to get started with research? Not sure how to find scholarly articles? Need help incorporating sources into your paper and citing them correctly?

That's what we do best!

Schedule a Research Consultation with a librarian who can answer your questions about research and help you at any point in the process. Go to the Research Help tab on our homepage and select "Research Consultation."

All LexisNexis and ScienceDirect products will be unavailable due to a scheduled maintenance outage. The outage will last approximately nine hours starting Oct. 31st at 9:00pm eastern time, through Nov. 1st 5:00am. We apologize for any inconvenience.

On October 1, President Obama signed a proclamation declaring October, 2009 as National Information Literacy Awareness Month. Acknowledging that we live in a society where we are inundated with information through "a 24-hour news cycle and thousands of global television and radio networks, coupled with an immense array of online resources," the statement calls on us to recognize how important it is to distinguish "truth from fiction and signal from noise" by learning to evaluate information.

Read the full proclamation at http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Presidential-Proclamation-National-Information-Literacy-Awareness-Month/.

What can you do today to become a more information literate person?

Join Spencer, the Library's Super Searcher, and one of our friendly librarians to explore the library's databases. No registration required. All sessions will take place in the Library Classroom.

Open to ALL students, staff, faculty and administrators.

• October 12th, 12:15-1:00
  Learn more about Academic Search Premier, SocIndex, Communication and Mass Media, PsycArticles, Business Source Premier and GreenFile.
• October 21, 3:00-3:45
  Learn more about Lexis Nexis
• October 26th, 12:15-1:00
  Learn more about Proquest Research Library, ABIInform, Nursing & Allied Health Source, and Proquest Newspapers.

Spencer hopes to see YOU there!

The Fall 2009 issue of the Library Newsletter, 'Check it Out!' is now available. Visit the Library's Newsletter Page for more information and to view past issues.

Did you know that hundreds of documentaries and informative television shows are available online for you to view FOR FREE? You can watch full length episodes of PBS series at http://video.pbs.org. This site includes shows like Nature, Hostory Detectives, News Hour with Jim Lehrer, and Nova. Caught up in the recent Julia Child craze? Watch original episodes of The French Chef with Julia Child at http://video.pbs.org/feature/90/.

SnagFilms.com has over 800 documentaries from both established filmarkers and novice documentarians who have an important story to tell. You can view the videos from their website and then "snag" it to post to a blog or social netowkr, or grab the html code for your own website. Check out their Most Discussed videos, like "The End of America" with Naomi Wolf, "Close Encounters: Proof of Alien Contact", or "What Would Jesus Buy".

Become a fan of the Library on Facebook! We'll keep you up to date on events, new books, interesting websites, fun facts, and even help with assignments. Log on to your Facebook Profile and search for Evelyn Field Library to become a fan. Not on Facebook? That's ok! You can still view our page at http://tinyurl.com/libonfacebook and bookmark it for next time.

Safari Books Online contains thousands of titles from leading publishers in computer science and technology. You can access all of these titles right from your office or home computer, or from any of the campus computer labs. More than 70 titles were recently added, including these titles that can help you on your path to computer geekdom! If you are off-campus, you will need to log in with your G# and password when prompted to access these titles.

• Hacking: The Next Generation
• Sexy Web Design
• The Principles of Successful Freelancing
• The Social Factor: Innovate, Ignite, and Win through Mass Collaboration and Social Networking
• Sams Teach Yourself YouTube in 10 Minutes
• Sams Teach Yourself Facebook in 10 Minutes
• ActionScript for Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds
• Absolute Beginner's Guide to Computer Basics, Fifth Edition
• Programming in C, Third Edition

For more online books, visit the Databases page on the library website (http://library.raritanval.edu/databases) and select Safari Books Online from the alphabetic listing.

The Library would like to announce the addition of the Proquest Nursing & Allied Health Source Database. The database provides information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine in the following formats: full text journals, evidence based resources, dissertations, and systematic reviews. Topics covered include cytology, nursing, nutrition, oncology, physical therapy, radiography, dietetics, pediatric care, pharmacology, public health and radiology. The database includes abstracting and indexing for more than 850 titles, with over 715 titles in full-text. Journal coverage includes Journal of Nursing Scholarship, Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, Physical Therapy, Journal of Rehabilitation, and Clinical Laboratory Science.

The database may be accessed from the library's database page from either on or off-campus. G# and password required for off-campus use.