Spotlight on Associates Program Source

Check out the EBSCOhost database, the Associates Program Source, designed specifically for junior & community colleges with a primary focus on disciplines of study within associate degrees and certification programs. This database provides access to 1,000 full-text journals as well as 100 full-text books. Areas explored include accounting, agricultural sciences, child care services, cosmetology, culinary arts, forestry, food service management, graphic arts, hair dressing, hospitality management, interior design, journalism, plumbing, heating & air conditioning, veterinary technology and welding to name a few. The database is updated weekly on EBSCOhost.

For further information or assistance in using this database, contact the Reference Desk.

Ebook of the Month – Encyclopedia of World Religions

Check out NetLibrary’s ebook of the month – Britannica Encyclopedia of World Religions.  This reference book introduces the concepts, movements, people, and events associated with living and ancient religions, including Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Highlights include:

• 3,500 entries provide coverage of religious movements and concepts, historical and legendary figures, divinities, and supernatural characters, and important religious places.
• 30 in-depth articles provide detailed discussions of major religions, including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, as well as other important religious topics.
• Authoritative entries provide coverage of all religions, including a wide array of religious movements and the major religions, both living and ancient.
• Information about the pronunciation and origins of religious terms.
• More than 600 illustrations show sacred places, edifices, vestments, rituals, objects, and texts.
• 32 pages of full-color artwork and maps.

NetLibrary books can be accessed from any Internet-accessible computer.  To access books off-campus, you will first need to create a NetLibrary account on a campus computer.  For further information or assistance in using the NetLibrary ebook collection, contact the Reference Desk.

EBSCOhost Databases – New & Improved Searching

A new collection of EBSCOhost databases replaced many of our Gale databases on

July 1st.  To learn more about this comprehensive collection of EBSCOhost databases and other changes, click here.  

Now available – EBSCOhost 2.0 - A new and improved search interface with simpler and more intuitive search screens.  Enhancements include:

• Advanced Search screen provides built-in flexibility for more refined searches.
• Visual Search option provides users with a graphically rich alternative to the Basic or Advanced Search screens.
• Image Quick View – Full-sized images such as charts, photos, maps and illustrations can be viewed by simply clicking on any thumbnail image in the Results List.
• Results List screen delivers a wide variety of brand new tools to help you organize, refine, and expand your search results.
• MLA & APA Citations – Click on the Cite icon located near top of an open article to access the article citation in APA or MLA format.  You can copy and paste these formatted citations into your Works Cited page.
• My EBSCOhost sign-in allows you to save items in a personalized folder for use in future sessions.

Check out the wide variety of EBSCOhost databases available to you or try some searches using EBSCOhost’s Academic Search Complete, a comprehensive, scholarly, multidisciplinary database that provides access to more than 5500 full-text periodicals.

For more information or assistance in using the EBSCOhost databases, contact the Reference Desk.

Parham Library is moving!

The Parham Campus Library will close at 9 p.m. Monday, July 28 (end of Summer Semester classes), while we move into our new home in the Library Technology Center. We apologize for the temporary inconvenience of returning your library books by July 28. You may return them while we are closed to our Downtown or Western campus libraries.

You’ll soon enjoy the wonderful new space, beautiful new furniture, long-awaited group study rooms, and more!

Hear Simon Vance, “Voice of Choice” winner!

Booklist magazine has just declared Simon Vance its first annual “Voice of Choice” recipient to coincide with a new event, National Audiobook Month (June). According to reviewer Joyce Saricks, “In Vance’s reading of Eric Clapton’s… autobiography, Clapton: The Autobiography, his ‘tones vibrate with the energy of the macap London arts scene in the 1960’s,’ and he ‘convincingly communicates the mood swings of an insecure musician’.”  Would you like to hearing this reading yourself? Login to JSRCC Libraries’ new Overdrive Digital Audiobooks Collection, or check out the title through VCCSLinc, the online library catalog.