Summer Library Orientations

Just a reminder that the Chabot College Librarians offer orientation sessions during each semester, including the summer, covering basic library and research skills. We customize each orientation based on the given assignment.

Whether your students are required to write a report, a critical essay, or a research paper, the librarians will show them how and where to begin. We will make sure they don’t get lost in the overwhelming sea of information.

They will learn about:

· Organization of the Chabot College Library

· Finding Books Using the Online Book Catalog

· Finding Articles Using Periodical Indexes

· Internet Resources

· Research Strategies and Techniques

· Selection and Evaluation of Sources

· Citation Formats

Come into the library today to schedule an orientation for your class; or, you can submit the online Library Instruction Form for Faculty that can be found at: http://www.ushosttech.com/chabot/library/request.cfm.

Requests need to be made at least seven days in advance. Please leave a copy of the assignment with your library orientation request (if you use the online form, notice you can attach your assignment and send it with your request).

This Week at the Library, Hours for Finals Week, Returning Books

On May 20 at twelve noon, at the Library, in Rooms 107A and B, enjoy the readings from promising Chabot writers and poets from the latest issue of The Chabot Review, Chabot College's literary magazine, an annual publication that has been around for 47 years!

This year's publication is titled Chabot Review 2008: Serious Business

Also hear about the forthcoming special issue coming this Fall, The Best of the Chabot Review.

Reminder of Hours and Returns:

As you are planning to study for Finals, remember that the Library's Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Mondays through Thursdays and 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Fridays. We are closed during the weekends.

Three study rooms are available for groups of two or more. You can sign up to one week in advance, at the Reference Desk. (At least two names MUST be signed up). Maximum of two hours per day. Be sure to sign up rather than assume a room, as you will be asked to leave if a signed-up study group arrives. If a signed-up study group does not show up after 10 minutes of the time signed, the room is considered forfeited to any other study group who may want to use it at this time.

Please have your cell phone conversations outside. Believe it or not, people studying near you do not want to hear your conversation. Keep phones at vibrating (no sound) and text message them and let them know you'll talk to them in a moment, as you kindly step outside.

Please remember, that regardless when you check out a book, all books must returned by May 30. The Library will be closed from May 31 until June 15 (until summer session begins).
If you need to return a book (and pay a fine) after May 30, keep in mind that during the day you can enter just to pay your fine. There will be people staffed here on Mondays through Thursdays of the first two weeks of June.

This Week at the Library

Big Event, Thursday, May 15 at College Hour (12 noon to 1 p.m.): Josh Kornbluth, nationally-known performer, filmmaker and host of the PBS "Josh Kornbluth Show" performs excerpts from his latest monologue, "Citizen Josh." Be here at the Library! Sponsored by Staff Development, ASCC, Forensics, and The Chabot Review.

EBSCOhost 2.0 is coming! Get a sneak peak here:

http://www.ebscohost.com/2.0

See the new results screen, with legend here:

http://www.chabotcollege.edu/library/handouts/ebscohost2searchresultspage.pdf

This Week at the Library

Event at the Library: The Hip-Hop Project, Tuesday, May 6, 4 to 7 p.m.
A few seats are still left! Reserve your seats at the Aspire Office, Now!

Contemporary Reading Shelves: Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
This month's reading shelves include works by and about prominent Asian Americans, and Asian/Asian American/Pacific Islander history!

Databases Update: Find Full-Text Articles with More Ease Using 360 Link
With the new 360 Link service, the Library provides you more pathways to the tens of thousands of full-text articles available!

Databases Update: Ebscohost 2.0 is coming this summer! (Post will appear soon)
EBSCOhost is coming out with a new look that is supposed to make it even easier for you to find articles that match your topics. Stay tuned for more information!

Databases Update: Find Full Text Articles with More Ease!

Chabot Library is proud to announce a new feature where you can find full-text articles with more ease than before! With our new service provided by Serials Solutions, called 360 Link (also known as "Article Linker"), you will now be directed to articles in other databases and the free Public World Wide Web.

Here is how it works:

1. You come across an article you want that is NOT in the current database. In Ebscohost, you would click on “Check to see if Full Text is in Chabot’s Other Databases”

2. If the article is available in another database, you godirectly to that article. No further searching, no need to navigate back to a databases page. The link goes directly to the article!

3. If the article is not available, you are then led to options that include finding the title in print at a local library!

In addition to being able to link to articles between databases, you can also link to articles from Chabot full-text databases right from Google Scholar! To set up Chabot Library directly in Google Scholar preferences, go to http://tinyurl.com/3v74pa Click on the "Save Preferences" button. When you perform a search in Google Scholar, on the right of some of your Google scholar entries there will be a link that says "Chabot Library Databases". Click on that link, and in most cases, you will go directly to the article (if you are off-campus, enter your username and password, then be led directly to the article!)