Audio Pronounciation Online

Since some legal terms may be difficult to pronounce, online students might benefit from an audio pronunciation guide from an online dictionary such as the Merriam-Webster online dictionary.

Listed below are some legal related terms to demonstrate this:
certiorari
eleemosynary
voir dire
res judicata
habeas corpus
mens rea
actus reas

-Guest Author: Brian Craig, Paralegal Program Chair - Online Division

To hear the audio pronunciation, click on the audio symbol:

Note: You can search the Merriam-Webster (and other dictionaries) right from the library website! The Merriam-Webster search on the library website includes a thesaurus, medical dictionary, and Spanish dictionary as well as the ability to produce audio prounciations.

- Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

APA Citation in a Nutshell Webinars

Will you be doing research this quarter? If so, you need to use APA citation (unless your instructor tells you otherwise)! Learn all about APA in this optional, 30-minute live session. The online librarian, Elaine Settergren, will host the meeting.

The times for these webinars are:

Week 3

• 1/20/09 at 7 p.m. central time
• 1/21/09 at 12 noon central time

Week 4

• 1/27/09 at 1 p.m. central time
• 1/28/09 at 4 p.m. central time

Week 10

• 3/9/09 at 7 p.m. central time
• 3/10/09 at 1 p.m. central time
• 3/11/09 at 10 a.m. central time

Students from all schools in the Globe Education Network are welcome to attend. You don't need to RSVP. Also, you won't need a password - just leave that blank.

-Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

New Features: ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source Database

The ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source Database has a new homepage!

You can find a link to this database homepage from any of the health-related research by topic guides on the library's website. Here's an example in the Nursing research guide. The ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source Database is listed under "additional databases."

New features include:

• Evidence-based resources
• Evidence summaries
• Systematic reviews
• Best practice information sheets
• Cultural competency briefs: religion, ethnicity, and care
• Study paths
• Practical nursing
• Registered nursing

- Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

New Library Website

http://www.globeeducationnetwork.com/library/

We (librarians) are excited about this new site and hope that it will be a great service for your research needs. Here are some of the features that we're particularily excited to introduce:

• Book and article searching from the library homepage
• Research by topic guides - including customized article searching from within these guides!
• A guide to getting started on your research projects
• Instant message (IM) a librarian from any library website page
• Enhanced services for faculty and staff
• New suggest a purchase form

We welcome your feedback (good or bad) about this website. Let us know how it works or doesn't work for you!

-Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

Book Spotlight: Richfield Collection

Review of Five Quarts: A Personal and Natural History of Blood by Bill Hayes.

Are you fascinated by blood? Or do you faint at the sight? This book tells the story of how humans have come to learn about our blood and how it affects our society. The author moves between ancient views and beliefs about blood to his own experience dealing with the AIDS virus. Everything from Odysseus to Dracula, and ancient medical treatments to cutting-edge blood tests are discussed. The author is able to mix his own personal encounters with blood and the historic and folkloric ways it has been viewed in the past. This book is a fascinating look into medical and social history, as well as a great insight into the way we view blood today.

This book can be found in the Richfield Circulating Collection 612.11 HAY.--Read and reviewed by Erica Nutzman

Congratulations Graduates!

Congratulations to all the graduates! You worked hard and made it to graduation day! That's a big achievement!

To all other students, faculty, and staff: have a great break and see you next quarter!

- The Librarians

MSNBC Library Report

Libraries offer free relief in tough economic times.


Your school library has a lot to offer for completing your homework, but did you know we also have some fiction available too? You can search for fiction and non-fiction here.

You can also use this Worldcat search to find books at your local public library or your local campus library.

- Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

Top 10s of 2008

It's that time of year again when everyone recaps the year in top 10 lists. Recently, Time Magazine has published the ultimate top 10 list - a Top 10 of Everything of 2008.

This list has everything from top sports moments to top awkward moments. They've hit some of my 2008 favorites (Girl Talk and Portishead) and listed some new things I'll need to check out from my public library (Lush Life by Richard Price and Anathem by Neal Stephenson).

What's your favorite top 10 list?

- Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

The Chronicle of Higher Education - full access!

We are excited to now have full access to the Chronicle Online without an individual password. To access the Chronicle, go here: http://students.msbcollege.edu/library/resources/databases/ and scroll to the bottom of the page for the link. You will need to log in with your normal username and password to get access from off-campus.

Among the Web-site highlights are:

*** the Web site (http://chronicle.com/) updated throughout the day with the latest news in academe;
*** the text from the current print edition, posted every Monday morning (http://chronicle.com/chronicle);
*** a searchable archive of every issue published since September 1989 (http://chronicle.com/search);
*** all the commentary and essays from our weekly magazine, The Chronicle Review (http://chronicle.com/review);
*** all the data from the annual Almanac and other special, single-topic reports are in easy-to-search databases (http://chronicle.com/special);
*** online "extras" such as slide shows, podcasts, and video (http://chronicle.com/extras).

In addition, there are free e-mail newsletters available, including Academe Today, The Chronicle’s
popular Daily Report. Or for those more interested in discussions and ideas rather than hard news, they now
publish the weekly Chronicle Review e-mail newsletter.

Go here: http://chronicle.com/help/emails to learn more about all the complimentary e-mail
newsletters that The Chronicle publishes.

For a quick summary of what you now have access to, please visit the site map at http://chronicle.com/search/guide/


Erica Nutzman
Network Librarian
Globe Education Network

Legal Research Tips

If you're trying to access combined journals and law reviews on Westlaw, try the "LAWREV-PRO" database instead of the "JLR" database. (Thanks to instructor Brian Craig for the tip!)

If you don't have a Westlaw password this quarter, you can also find journal and law review articles in LexisNexis Academic database and Gale LegalTrac database.

-Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian