Database URLs to use while ACA system is down February 3, 2010
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Oops! The server that runs our database proxy is down! We hope the trouble won’t last long, but until things are working properly again, here are links to our databases so you can still get things done. These work from on campus but not from off campus.
Remember, you can use WorldCat http://twclibrary.worldcat.org as a library catalog.
ACLS Humanities E-book Project http://www.humanitiesebook.org/
America: History and Life http://search.ebscohost.com/
American Chemical Society Journals http://pubs.acs.org/
American Civil War Letters and Diaries http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/CWLDlive
Annual Reviews http://www.annualreviews.org
ArtStor http://www.artstor.org/
ATLA Religion and ATLAS serials http://search.ebscohost.com/
Biography Resource Center http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/athe98084
BioOne http://www.bioone.org/
Early Encounters in North America http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/EENAlive
Encyclopedia Britannica http://www.search.eb.com/
Encyclopedia of Life Science http://www.els.net/
Evans Early American Imprints (Newsbank) http://infoweb.newsbank.com/?db=EVAN
FirstSearch http://firstsearch.oclc.org/fsip Contains WorldCat, ABI Inform (Business), Contemporary Women’s Issues, SIRS (Social Issues) Researcher, Dissertations, Wilson Select Plus.
Gale Virtual Reference Library http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/aca_wesleyan
Greenwood Press E-books http://ebooks.greenwood.com/browse/index.jsp
Historical Abstracts http://search.ebscohost.com/
JSTOR Arts and Sciences I, II, III, and IV http://www.jstor.org
Lexis-Nexis Academichttp://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic/
Literature Resource Center http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/athe98084
MLA Bibliography http://search.ebscohost.com/
Naxos Music Library http://twcnet.naxosmusiclibrary.com
NetLibrary http://www.netlibrary.com
North American Women’s Letters and Diaries http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/NWLDlive
Oxford Art Online http://www.oxfordartonline.com
Oxford English Dictionary http://dictionary.oed.com/entrance.dtl
Oxford Music Online <http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com
Oxford Reference Online Premium http://www.oxfordreference.com/
Polling the Nations http://poll.orspub.com
Project Muse http://muse.jhu.edu
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCO) http://search.ebscohost.com
PsycInfo (EBSCO) http://search.ebscohost.com
Serials Solutions http://ce3ls7pe6k.search.serialssolutions.com/ Our “Complete List of Journals” both print and online
Statesman’s Year Book of the World http://www.statesmansyearbook.com
Tennessee Electronic Library http://tntel.tnsos.org/ Academic OneFile and many other databases
Wiley Interscience e-books http://www3.interscience.wiley.com
WorldCat.org: http://www.worldcat.org
Today’s Brainteaser January 29, 2010
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The Friday Brainteaser from Credo Reference
Stumped? Use Credo to look up the answers.
One to Ten
Our brainteasers always have ten questions, but this quiz is about the numbers from one to ten. Each question or answer includes one of those numbers – but they are not in numerical order in the questions.
Questions:
1. What number in Downing Street is the residence of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?
2. What is a “one-horse town”?
3. A horizontal figure of which number is the symbol for infinity in mathematics?
4. A tetrahedron is a solid figure with how many triangular faces?
5. The ancient city of Rome was built on or about how many hills?
6. A dyad is a social relationship involving how many participants?
7. In cricket, how many runs are scored by a hit which makes the ball clear the boundary without touching the ground?
8. The Three Kingdoms is a period from 220 to 581 in the history of which country?
9. In the song about the twelve days of Christmas, how many drummers were drumming?
10. “The Five” was a group of Russian composers who joined together in about 1875 to create a Russian national music. Name three of these composers.
Answers: http://corp.credoreference.com/quiz
Friday Brainteaser January 15, 2010
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Test your trivia knowledge with this brainteaser from Credo Reference. Stumped? Use Credo Reference’s online collection of reference books to look up the answers.
Where?
This brainteaser asks where particular places or things can be found. But beware! You may find some of the questions are not as straightforward as you might think.
Questions:
1. Where is Ayers Rock or Uluru?
2. Where are the Urals?
3. Where is Guantanamo Bay?
4. Where is the Auteuil viaduct?
5. Where would you find a Plimsoll line?
6. Where would you find Gozo and Comino?
7. Where would you find Virginia Plain?
8. Where is the metatarsus?
9. Where is the Mare Orientale?
10. Where are the Islets (or Islands) of Langerhans?
Answers:
Find out the answers here, or copy and paste this link into your browser address bar: http://corp.credoreference.com/quiz
You’ll be hearing from us! January 13, 2010
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Students, please make sure you check your my.twcnet.edu email address! All library notices now go to these addresses. We know that many of you rely on these to prevent overdues, and when you do have something overdue, we remind you to get those books back before your fines get any bigger. We also notify you by email when a book arrives for you from another library.
Not only are you missing exciting library emails, but all communication from your professors, the registrar and Student Life goes to this address. In other words, you’re missing everything to do with fun stuff on campus and stuff important to your grades if you aren’t checking this email.
Login and help pages for campus email are here.
You can see what you have checked out and when it is due at the Check Your Library Account page.
TWC Gothic January 12, 2010
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A clever vulture has found a place to warm himself in this cold weather: the Banfield Durham Hall chimney.
Photos by Julie Adams
New JSTOR collection January 12, 2010
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You’ll notice that you have more journal articles available to you now as you search JSTOR. As of this month, the TWC Library has added JSTOR Collection V.
JSTOR’s new collection V will add about 120 titles to our JSTOR holdings. Included in this collection are literary reviews, state historical journals, and additional arts and humanities journals. Some new titles in JSTOR are Antioch Review, Chaucer Review, Sewanee Review, MoMA, Religious Studies, Research in African Literatures, Hypatia, and many more. You can see the full title list here: http://0-www.jstor.org.library.acaweb.org/action/collectionInfoPage?selectCollection=asv
TWC now has JSTOR collections I through V, VII and the Ecology and Botany collection.
Students set library record December 3, 2009
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On Tuesday, Dec. 1, we had a total of 103 students in the library between 9 p.m. and midnight, with 45 here from 9:00 – 10:00. Obviously, this is a record for this time of night since this is the first year we have been open so late on a regular basis. However, this may be the most people we’ve ever had in here at one time. Looks like some people are going to knock their finals out of the park!
And for the record, we love you guys too. ♥ We’re still open until midnight through exam week, closing at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 10. Come in and see us!
Happy Thanksgiving November 24, 2009
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The Library is closing at 6:00 pm on Tuesday, November 24 for the Thanksgiving holidays. We’ll reopen at 8:00 am on Monday, November 30. If you need articles and e-books while we are closed, search via the library website http://www.twcnet.edu/library . A wealth of articles and information is available via the Tennessee Electronic Library http://tntel.tnsos.org/. Happy Thanksgiving!
Remember: to log on to databases from off campus, your last name and your 13 digit barcode number from your student ID are needed.
New Books! November 4, 2009
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Click here for a list of books we added to WorldCat in October, 2009.
http://twclibrary.worldcat.org/libraries/2782/recentitems?&fm=all&se=ts&sd=asc&qt=sort_ts_asc
The Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy by Thomas Buergenthal; foreword by Elie Wiesel. Little, Brown: 2009.
D 810.C4 B84 2009
J. Adams
Get Comfortable @ Your Library November 4, 2009
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We find that our couches are very popular. They are also very comfortable, it seems! Anyone know who this sleepy TWC student is?
Nov. 10 update: Sarah Torbett won the contest to name those feet. They belong to Alex Whitlock, a student assistant at the library. Congratulations, Sarah, on your new copy of Sara Paretsky’s Hardball.
