EBSCO Research Starters for Business and Education

By Robert Flatley
Coordinator of Electronic Resources, Interlibrary Loan & Periodicals

Now through June 2009, the library has trials of EBSCO Research Starters for Business and Education.
 
Answering the question, “Where do I start?” EBSCO Publishing is introducing a series of new databases designed to provide researchers and students with a starting point for their research and assignments. Research Starters are topic overviews, relevant to key areas of academic study, including links to key articles in associated EBSCOhost databases.
 
Research Starters follow an easy to use format. The topics correlate directly to courses taught at colleges and universities and provide students with authoritative, discipline-specific articles offering comprehensive overviews of important academic subject areas and topics. The databases aim to provide a gateway to resources needed for assignments, including quick access to key, related articles from EBSCOhost which have been handpicked by subject matter experts and scholars.
 
Each Research Starters database initially consists of 500 topics with approximately 25–50 new topics added each year. Each database includes a collection of summary articles written by subject-matter experts exclusively for EBSCOhost—approximately 3,000 words each. Articles are available in both HTML and PDF versions.
 
Summary articles include Abstracts, an Overview section, and charts, graphs, and tables for visual reference. In addition, articles contain Application of Concepts, Definitions of Terms and Concepts, Extensive Bibliographies, Links to Articles on EBSCOhost from the Bibliographies, a Suggested Reading section, and Author Biographies.
 
Click here to access Research Starters – Business.
 
Click here to access Research Starters – Education.
 
Or you can perform a search in an EBSCO database such as Academic Search Complete.  Research Starters material appears in the lower right.

Absentee Ballot Deadline

Want to vote in this year’s Presidential Election, but are unable to be in the county in which you are registered on Election day? The last day that the state of Pennsylvania will accept absentee ballot forms is October 28, 2008 at 5pm.

Fill out this Absentee Ballot Application form, and mail it to your County Election office.

Living Library Debuts in United States

Fresh from libraries of Europe, this living library concept was recently debuted in a Santa Monica Public Library in California.  The Concept?  A Living Library allows library visitors to book half-hour meetings with individuals with special interests, beliefs, or experiences.

To find out more about this interesting movement, read this article.

For information on the next Living Library Event, visit the Kitsap Regional Library website.

Dictionary Day!

I can’t think of a better way to celebrate words than to take part in Dictionary Day, which is today! Dictionary.com is a great resource for finding tons of word definitions. Want to go deeper than that, to see the origins and varied definitions of a word? Check out the library’s subscription to the Oxford English Dictionary, which can be found on the Rohrbach Library Articles and Databases page.

New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Database

By Robert Flatley
Coordinator of Electronic Resources, Interlibrary Loan, and Periodicals

The Library is pleased to announce the acquisition of the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online, 2nd edition.

An extensive and authoritative economics reference resource which contains over 1850 articles by more than 1500 of the world’s leading economists. “In 2008, Palgrave Macmillan published The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume. While some classic articles from the 1987 were retained, around 80% of the text was either entirely new or substantially rewritten to reflect the depth of change within the discipline between the editions. This new edition retains the inspiring tradition of bringing together the world’s most influential economists writing in their own voice on their areas of expertise, but in its online incarnation it has married this tradition with the benefits of a dynamic, updated resource serving the information needs of a new generation of economists.”

You can access all the library’s e-resources at: http://www.kutztown.edu/library/er/index.asp

Last Call!

Today is the last day to register in order to be able to vote in this year’s Presidential Election. Make your voice heard in this election! If you are not registered, visit Rock the Vote to register today!