University Libraries celebrate Black History Month
The University Libraries join the Loyola community in celebrating Black History Month 2012. The library has an extensive collection of print and electronic resources that focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. The Black World Studies subject guide (http://libguides.luc.edu/content.php?pid=5472) highlights core resources, including renowned electronic collections […]
Valentine’s Day Trivia Contest
Check out the library’s Facebook page on Tuesday, February 14 (Valentine’s Day!) for a chance to win Rambler Bucks during our V-Day trivia contest.. Throughout the day and evening, we’ll post a variety of questions (word scrambles, quotes, etc) and the first person to comment with the correct answer wins! * Contest rules: You must […]
Getting the Best Out of JSTOR
Wednesday, February 15th – 11:00 a.m. Thursday, March 22nd – 3:00 p.m. IC Room 120 It’s easy to find a lot of articles when searching in JSTOR, but it can be difficult to wade through all those results to find articles that are relevant. This session will cover advanced searching skills, such as proximity operators […]
Aim & Audience: The Matter of Style Today –
Join Dr. Michael Meinhardt as he leads a discussion on the topic of citation styles. Has the onslaught of tools assisting students in creating bibliographies such as RefWorks, Zotero, EndNote and others helped or harmed your efforts to reinforce good use of style? How do you stress the importance of good citations to students when […]
Cited Reference Searching: Tracking Research Over Time
Tuesday, February 14th 1:00-2:00pm IC Room 120 Cited reference searching allows you to track the flow of research by identifying references that cite or are cited by other scholarly sources. Cited Reference searching helps find new research based on earlier research, and can identify how many times and where a paper is cited. Discover how […]
New Alexander Street Press Streaming Video Collections
Loyola Libraries has two new streaming resources: Filmakers Library Online provides award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum—race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. It presents points of view and historical and current […]