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E-Resources Fair Announcement

2012-01-23T07:06:00.000-08:00

Students, Faculty and Staff you’re invited to our third annual…

Event: E-Resources Fair

Guest Presenter: Juan Felipe Longas, Caribbean Regional Manager, Ebrary

Theme: E-books, E-readers and You

Date: Thursday, January 26, 2012

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Venue/Location: Harry C. Moore Library, Auditorium (Oakes Field Campus)

Better PowerPoint Presenatations

2011-09-05T09:11:00.001-07:00

Classes are back in full swing and many students will have been given a date for an in-class presentation. If you are up-to-date and techno-saavy, you might want to use Powerpoint for your presentation.

First step would be to book the projector for the date of your presentation – if there isn’t one already available in the classroom. A few days before your presentation you should check it out to be sure that it works and that you know how to connect it to your laptop. (You don’t want to waste time trying to figure it out five minutes before your presentation or have the equipment defeat you!)

Here are a few pointers to making better Powerpoint presentations

- Don’t put too much text on the slide

- Use a large font, 28 point or larger

- Sans serif fonts – like Ariel, Franklin, Calibri

- Dark text on light background

- Picture first, then text

- Try not to use bells and whistles (they are cute but distracting)

- Pictures should teach not decorate

- Use figures and tables sparingly

- Put most information in the first 10 minutes of the presentation

- Don’t read the slides – use the slides to give you speaking cues

And time your presentation – keep it within the guidelines that your professor gave you.

And best of luck for the semester.

-Virginia Ballance, Nursing and Health Sciences Librarian

Most students never make it this far

2011-08-31T07:15:00.000-07:00

Something to bear in mind as we begin the academic year..........

I am ashamed of myself. This Blog is no more than a cut and paste job – BUT, I will give the citation :

Kolowich, S. (2011). What student’s don’t know. Inside Higher Ed. August 22. Retrieved August 30, 2011 from http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/08/22/erial_study_of_student_research_habits_at_illinois_university_libraries_reveals_alarmingly_poor_information_literacy_and_skills

In this well written article, Ms Kolowich gives an over view of ERIAL (Ethnographic Research in Illinois Academic Libraries) project. This project was to actually observe student behavior rather than rely on self-generated student surveys.

Despite being in an academic situation, both students and faculty were blissfully unaware of what the library staff was there to do. The common misconception was that librarians are there to physically point to where the students were to go, not to offer help in search techniques.

All too often, students were basically clueless about the logic underlying how the search engine organizes and displays its results. Consequently, the students did not know how to build a search that would return good sources. (For instance, limiting a search to news articles, or querying specific databases such as Google Book Search or Google Scholar.) The idea of this generation of students being part of the “digital native” is a myth. Just because they can type into the Google search engine, does not mean they can analyze the results.

Students showed an almost complete lack of interest in seeking assistance from librarians during the search process. This in turn led to many false turns and detours. The tragedy is that the students are not even aware that they are lost in a maze of databases and search techniques.

All too often, faculty as well assume that students have A+ research skills. This in turn means that students are not guided to proper databases or proper help within the Library.

Students who are self-starters are exactly that. They know what they don’t know and set out to remedy it.

-Chris Bull, Northern Campus Librarian

Check out the Events for the Official Opening of the New Library

2011-04-06T08:33:00.000-07:00

Library Closed for Official Opening

2011-04-05T14:54:00.000-07:00

To facilitate the Grand Opening ceremony on Friday, 8 April, the Harry C. Moore Library will be closed until 1 PM. The 24-hour Internet café will remain open but access into the library from the café will be blocked. Please pardon the inconvenience.

Rigor, and not the rigor-mortis kind

2011-03-08T08:43:00.000-08:00

I just finished reading a book of note,Arum, Richard & Roksa, Josipa. Academically adrift: limited learning on college campuses. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2011. Print.

It asks the question: How much are students actually learning in contemporary higher education? This was equated to the questions: Can students within two years of tertiary education improve their 1) critical thinking skills, 2) analytical reasoning, 3) problem solving and 4) writing.

2,322 students from a cross section of backgrounds, ethnicities and educational institutions (24 four year colleges and universities) were asked to complete the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA). The students first wrote the test in their first semester as freshmen (Fall 2005) and then again as sophomores (Spring 2007).

The Collegian Learning Assessment consists of three open-ended components (not multiple choice questions). These consist of a performance task and two analytical writing tasks (i.e. to make an argument and break an argument)

All the presently held truisms held out; students poorly prepared (at the high school level) did poorly; students from homes which did not have a university graduate as a parent did poorly; students who were not white did poorly; students not attending the more selective colleges and universities (those demanding a combined SAT of 1150 or greater) did poorly.

Being male or female, did not change scores. Students studying alone did better, students studying in groups did worse. Those students in the top 10% always did well, no matter what their backgrounds were.

So, does 3 semesters of college education change a student’s ability in critical thinking and reasoning? It has a barely noticeable impact on a student’s skills in critical thinking, complex reasoning are writing. The increase is 0.18 standard deviation or 7 percentile points, i.e from a 50 in freshman year to a 57 at the sophomore level. With a sample of 2,322 students this equals no significant statistical gain.

It is only when we look at the differences between groups do we notice disparities, some of them very wide. The top 10% of students increased their scores by a 43 percentile gain, i.e. they would go from a 50 to a 93. How can this be? What are these students doing different?

They study. They work. They tackle tough courses.

The average students studies 12 hours a week; 37 percent of students study less than 5 hours a week. Those that succeed study in excess of 20 hours a week. The old adage of studying 3 hours for every class hour holds true.

Students who succeed take courses which demand at least 20 pages of writing per semester. They take courses where each one demands in excess of reading 40 pages a week.

Consider.

Are you taking the easy way or are you getting an education!

- Chris Bull, Northern Campus Librarian

New E-Books from the COB Libraries

2011-02-21T06:50:00.000-08:00

Do you want to know what’s new at the library? Take at look at some of the most current electronic titles available through ebrary. Additionally, direct links are accessible through the library’s Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC). Every week the E-Resources Librarian will publish 50 titles that are newly available and searchable through the library’s online catalogue. For more information contact the Reference staff or email them at referencedesk@cob.edu.bs.

TITLE

English language teaching in its social context

Leading professional development in education

Distance training taking stock at a time of change

Keeping kids reading how to raise avid readers in the video age

Ideas for the university proceedings of Marquette University's mission seminar and conference

Importing diversity inside Japan's JET Program

Greening the college curriculum a guide to environmental teaching in the liberal arts : a project of the Rainforest Alliance

Bound to sin abuse, Holocaust, and the Christian doctrine of sin

Positive alternatives to exclusion

Latino high school graduation defying the odds

Designing the learning-centred school a cross-cultural perspective

Issues in science teaching

Reflective teacher development in primary science

Early childhood educational research issues in methodology and ethics

Flexible learning, human resource, and organisational development putting theory to work

Schools, teachers, and parents

Pupils and learning

Spirituality and education

Women and distance education challenges and opportunities

Feedback for learning

Inclusive education international voices on disability and justice

Young children's literacy development and the role of televisual texts

Open and distance learning in the developing world

Education, knowledge, and truth beyond the postmodern impasse

Education in morality

Whose school is it anyway?

Adult education a comparative study.

Doctoral experience success and failure in graduate school

Mission of the university

New Progressivism

Multicultural research a reflective engagement with race, class, gender and, sexual orientation

Teaching modern foreign languages at advanced level

Parity and prestige in English secondary education a study in educational sociology

Learning through group experience

Education of the countryman

Peasant renaissance in Yugoslavia, 1900-1950 a study of the development of Yugoslav peasant society as affected by education

From school to university a study, with special reference to university entrance

Educational thought and influence of Matthew Arnold

Academic freedom

Curriculum construction and critique

Quality of care for cardiopulmonary conditions a review of the literature and quality indicators

Investing in our children what we know and don't know about the costs and benefits of early childhood interventions

Staffing at-risk school districts in Texas problems and prospects

Environmental implications of population dynamics

Public information provision in the digital age implementation and effects of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act

Decline of privilege the modernization of Oxford University

Dictionary of multicultural education

Bourdieu and education acts of practical theory

Guide to early years practice

Empathetic education an ecological perspective on educational knowledge

- Antoinette Pinder, E-Resources Librarian

Cheaper Text Books?

2011-02-17T09:50:00.000-08:00

Okay, you are hurting from paying your tuition and wondering IF you need all those textbooks which your instructors have mentioned and assigned.

Textbooks do the job which they are assigned, i.e. to cover the course and in most cases provide exercises. Why do departments and faculty like textbooks? Well, they make their jobs easier. The teachers’ edition of the book you are looking at often has hidden resources and chapters which you don’t see in your edition. There is material to help prepare lectures, provide background information and the like. For the busy lecturer, it is a godsend.

In most places, college students are shelling out $900/year on textbooks in addition to the $15,000 most state schools charge for tuition. College textbook prices have increased by 186% since 1986. If you want to become a successful writer, write a textbook, especially one which is adopted as the official text in a school.

The hope for the future is that electronic versions of textbooks will help to cut costs. There would be no shipping and handling costs associated with the purchase (Campus bookstores usually make about 20% on the retail price of a text.) At present, Barnes and Nobel (Nook) and Amazon (Kindle) booksellers are battling it out for dominance of the market. As of May 2010, Kindle has the largest share of the U.S. e-reader market -- 62%. All this presumes that the student has the cost of a reader, be it a Kindle or an iPad.

One of the biggest drawbacks is that problem that most publishers are jealous of their publications. They only lease their titles to one provider. There is no competition at the distributor’s level. If the text is available through Barnes and Noble, chances are that it will not show up in the Amazon catalogue and visa versa. CourseSmart (Coursesmart.com) claims to have 90% of “core textbooks” in its catalog. The question of course is whose core textbooks.

In any case, if found and easily available, most electronic textbooks can usually be downloaded for a finite period for 2/3 of the hard copy cost. Delivery can be to your laptop or to a reader.

Texts have been with us for centuries and it is difficult to prophesize their demise. Second-hand books have been around as long as books have been sold. They were a bargain then and they are a bargain still.

- Chris Bull, Northern Campus Librarian

New Library at the Northern Campus of the College of the Library

2011-02-11T08:25:00.000-08:00

After a false start and months of waiting, the Northern Campus Library was moved in the beginning of January 2011 to its new location.

The books were on the shelf within a week. The NCL staff carefully packed and marked dozens of boxes which were reassembled to be put on the shelf. With the careful planning there were no surprises.

We are now an integral part of the Northern Campus (at the old Campus we were occupying a trailer at the back of the parking lot). We are just to the left as you enter the main gate and across the courtyard from Administration. All our furniture is new AND better than you would think.

The Library has 20 computers for student use. The Resource Room which is housed separately has an additional 20 or so computers. At our new site, we are connected to Oakes Field as we were at the old site, but the students can now charge their computer prints to their technology fee.

We have a little less square footage than we had at our previous location; however, there is better use of the stack areas. Books are still closely packed in our Bahamas Collection. We do have a good deal of expansion room for our general stack area.

With our improved location and resources, we are busier than we were at the Old Campus. Of course, it would be good to have a bit more space for more than the basics. The students, staff and faculty are settling in. There is even a new staff room for the Library staff!

Locating Business case studies

2011-01-13T12:17:00.000-08:00

Finding official HBS case studies: Harvard Business School sells its case studies via its website. “Cases are written by HBS professors and approximately 350 cases are developed at the School each year.” These are copyrighted, proprietary studies and are not available for borrowing. If you need a copy of an HBS case, you will need to purchase it.

To purchase a case, visit www.library.hbs.edu/hbs_cases.html . You can search by the name of the case or by the case number. Cases generally cost $6.95 each.

Finding case studies other than official HBS case studies:

#1 Check EBSCOhost’s Business Search Premier database. They have a subject heading for “Case Studies.”

To find a subject heading, look in the blue bar at the top of the page. Click on Subject Terms.

Browse for Case Studies

Click on the box to the left of the term, click Add, then click Search.

You can add a word or two, to narrow the list of case studies. For instance, you can type the word “airline” in the second search box, to limit your results to only case studies that include that word.

#2 The Harvard Business Review publishes one case study in each issue. (Please note that these are not the same case studies that Harvard Business School sells via its website!) So, you can search HBR and look at all the case studies it has published.

In the blue bar at the top of the page, click on Publications

Browse for Harvard Business Review

Click the box to the left of the publication title, click Add, then click Search

The list of results will include all articles published in HBR. Add the subject headings for case studies (DE “case studies”) to the second search box and hit Search.

The list of results now includes only the case studies from HBR.

-Cathy LeGrand, Public Services Librarian

Library Services for Spring 2011

2011-01-10T09:51:00.000-08:00

Library services on the Main campus will continue at the old main, CHMI and Law Libraries until further notice. Please be prepared for disruptions in access to many of the library’s materials. Print materials from the general, reference, West Indian and Teaching Practice collections, and loose and bound journal issues from the periodicals collection have been relocated to the Harry C. Moore library. These materials will be available on a limited basis, by request only. Requests for these materials will be filled twice daily.

Bahamian materials in Special Collections, Reserve materials and a limited selection of reference books are still available in the old main library. All library computers remain available as well.

Library staff members strongly advise all students, faculty and staff to make the greatest possible use of available electronic resources in lieu of print resources.

Available electronic resources include:

• Archival journal articles through JSTOR

• Current journal articles through EBSCOhost databases such as Academic Search Complete, Business Source Complete, Education Research Complete, PsycINFO, SOCindex, and Caribbean Search

• Reference resources through CredoReference

• Electronic books through Netlibrary

• Assorted virtual materials (found via PRIMO)

The EBSCOhost and CredoReference databases require passwords, available from the library’s Circulation and Reference desks. Access to PRIMO is linked to individual library borrower accounts – if you have ever borrowed a book from the library, you are signed up to use PRIMO.

Interlibrary loan remains available to all members of the COB community. Requests can be sent to cobill@cob.edu.bs . Please remember that ILL requests take a minimum of one week to arrive at COB.

Desperately Seeking Help with APA Style: Citations

2010-11-25T07:26:00.000-08:00

Do you need help creating APA-style citations for your documented paper? First off, remember the four “building blocks” of every citation:

WHO

WHAT

WHEN

WHERE

Every citation you create must be able to answer these four questions.

WHO – who created it? Who is the author? The author could be:

• a person

• multiple people

• an editor

• an institution

• a corporation

• a government

WHAT – what is it called? Usually, this is the title of the work.

In the case of the article, it is the title of the article, not the title of the journal in which the article appears.

WHEN – when was it created? What is its date of publication?

In the case of a webpage, look to the bottom of the page for a date it was posted to the web or else the date it was last updated. n

If it is absolutely impossible to determine the date of publication, use “n.d.”

If the document has not yet been published, use “In press.”

WHERE – where did I find this?

• If it is a webpage, state where on the internet it can be found (meaning, give the URL for the specific resource)

• If it is a book, say who published it.

• If it is an article, give the title of the journal in which it was published.

Therefore, every citation must include, at barest minimum:

• An Author

• A Date

• A Title

• Some Publication info

Links to some good APA helper websites:

APA Style Online

www.apastyle.org/

OWL at Purdue: APA Style

owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

APA Style

library.nmu.edu/guides/userguides/style_apa.htm

APA Style Wizard

www.stylewizard.com/apa6index.html

-Cathy LeGrand, Public Services Librarian

Overlooked Gems for MBA Students

2010-11-23T07:30:00.000-08:00

If you think … “I’m in the MBA programme. I only need business information from the business databases.” THINK AGAIN. Business students might also need information on consumer behaviour, marketing, organizational behaviour, personnel management and other social behaviours which draw on the science of psychology. You might overlook a wealth of resources by having a narrow view of your information needs. Several psychology databases on our Ebsco account might actually be the resource you should use for your research: PsychINFO, Psychology and Behavioral Science Collection, for starters. They index the many business journals for the consumer behaviour and psychology content.

If you are doing a research study and need to find a survey or questionnaire (rather than making up your own...usually not a great idea) the Health and Psychosocial Instruments database (HaPI) will probably have information about questionnaires, surveys and other data collecting instruments you can use. To track down the actual instrument is a little more difficult and the Public Services Librarians in the Reference department can help with that.

Good luck with your research!

-Virginia Ballance, Nursing and Health Sciences Librarian

Out with the old and in with the new…

2010-11-16T13:20:00.000-08:00

Extra, extra…read all about it! The Library is out with the old and in with the new books before we move to the HCM library. Let us help you build your home library with books that cover a range of subjects: English Language, Education, Sociology, Computer Science and the list goes on.

Calling ALL students…

If are you interested in some leisure academic reading; then visit us at the library and don’t forget to bring that pocketbook, purse or wallet. We have books priced at 50¢ but we’re really looking for your $1.00 bills (because we’re expecting you to spend big and dig deep). Payment can be made at the Circulation desk; come and get those books before it is too late.

-Antoinette Pinder, E-Resources Librarian

So exactly how are the books arranged in the Main Library?

2010-11-15T09:18:00.001-08:00

Libraries arrange books by predetermined classification systems. Classification systems divide all knowledge into general subject areas and ensure that books on similar topics sit together. These general subject areas are assigned identifiers – usually letters or numbers .

COB’s Main Library uses the Library of Congress (LC) system, which is commonly used by university and college libraries. (COB’s nursing and law libraries use different classification systems, which are more appropriate for their specialty disciplines).

The LC system divides knowledge into 21 broad categories (“classes”) and labels those categories with a letter of the alphabet. That is to say, LC classification starts with A and ends with Z. (LC skips 5 letters: I, O, W, X, Y) .

Knowing the LC classes can be really helpful when doing research. When all else fails, or when you don’t have an idea where to start, a visit to the LC class for the subject you are researching may help you find a few good books. If you find a good book on the shelf, look at the books shelved next to or near it. Since classification systems try to group like things together, more books on that subject should be nearby.

The main classes in LC:

A -- GENERAL WORKS

B -- PHILOSOPHY. PSYCHOLOGY. RELIGION

C -- AUXILIARY SCIENCES OF HISTORY

D -- WORLD HISTORY AND HISTORY OF EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, ETC.

E -- HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS

F -- HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS

G -- GEOGRAPHY. ANTHROPOLOGY. RECREATION

H -- SOCIAL SCIENCES

J -- POLITICAL SCIENCE

K -- LAW

L -- EDUCATION

M -- MUSIC AND BOOKS ON MUSIC

N -- FINE ARTS

P -- LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Q -- SCIENCE

R -- MEDICINE

S -- AGRICULTURE

T -- TECHNOLOGY

U -- MILITARY SCIENCE

V -- NAVAL SCIENCE

Z -- BIBLIOGRAPHY. LIBRARY SCIENCE.

-Cathleen LeGrand, Public Services Librarian

That’s what friends are for: sharing and caring

2010-11-09T07:58:00.000-08:00

Last summer the College Libraries and Instructional Media Services department (LIMS) signed an agreement between the Ministry of Health, the Public Hospitals Authority and the Nassau Campus of the UWI School of Clinical Medicine and Research, to share the costs of the databases needed for medicine and nursing and allied health.

For over 10 years, LIMS shouldered the cost of some expensive resources for its students and faculty in programmes offered by the School of Nursing and Allied Health Professions – the “brand name” databases such as CINAHL with Full Text, Health and Psychosocial Instruments, and PsychINFO in addition to the Ebsco databases such as Academic Search Complete and Health Source: Nursing/Academic. By joining with partners, LIMS can now offer a wider range of databases to its students and faculty as the funds go further. Added to the roster of databases provided through our Ebsco account are Medline with Full Text (also known as Pubmed), Health Business Full Text Elite and Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection.

By joining forces with local health partners, students and faculty benefit by having access to some very useful point of care products: Nursing Resource Center, Dynamed (Evidence-based Medical Information), Patient Education Resource Center, and Rehabilitation Resource Center.

COB Nursing Students are starting to discover the vast amounts of information in Nursing Reference Center – all conveniently laid out like a nursing care plan. (YES!!) As well there are electronic books, drug handbooks, lab test values, and lots of other useful and potentially lifesaving information for the busy nurse in the hospital – or the nursing student finishing an assignment in the middle of the night!

- Virginia Ballance, Nursing and Health Sciences Librarian

Finding Book Reviews

2010-11-08T07:59:00.000-08:00

Finding an article that reviews, comments on or analyzes a book or other creative work (short story, film, play, etc.) can be tricky. Here are three resources you can use to track down a review:

Resource #1. EBSCOhost’s Academic Search Complete database.

In the blue bar at the top of the page, look for the "More" button -- put your cursor over "More" and select "Indexes"

In the "Browse an Index" box, click Reviews and Products

In the "Browse for:" box, type in the title of the work

Click Browse

The results list that appears will offer you various works with that title. Derivative works might also appear. For instance, if you search for “Hamlet,” you will find results for "hamlet (book),” “hamlet (film),” “ hamlet (music),” “ hamlet (poem),” “hamlet (theatrical production),” etc. If you only want reviews of the play, Hamlet, select the box to the left of “Hamlet (book).”

Click Add

Click Search

You now have a list of reviews. (Remember that not everything in EBSCOhost is available in full text. )

Resource #2. JSTOR

In the grey bar along the top of the page, look for the “Search” button – put your cursor over “Search” and select “Advanced Search.”

In the first search box, type in the exact title of the work. Put the exact title inside quotation marks, e.g. “Much Ado about Nothing.”

Under “Narrow by,” click “Reviews.”

Under Language, click English

Click Search

You now have a list of reviews that include the phrase you typed in. There is no guarantee that they will indeed review the title you are looking for. You will need to look through the list of results to find the relevant reviews. (Remember that not everything in JSTOR is available in full text.)

In JSTOR, you will need to click “View PDF” to see, print or save the entire article.

Resource #3. The New York Times webpage.

The New York Times is a major (and prestigious) creator of reviews. To your good fortune, a lot of the content from the newspaper is available for free on their website. Even more content is available if you sign up as a member – it is free to sign up (and worth it!).

Visit www.newyorktimes.com

In the “Search” box at the top left of the page, type in the title of your work, in quotation marks.

Your list of results is automatically limited to only results published within the last 30 days. In the likely event that your book (or other creative work) was published longer ago that that, click on a different time range. The most comprehensive set is “All results since 1851.”

You will see a list of articles that include the phrase you typed. There is not guarantee that they are review articles or that they are reviewing the title you are looking for. You will need to look through the list of results to find the relevant reviews.

-Cathleen LeGrand, Public Services Librarian

The Gift of Giving!

2010-10-27T13:37:00.000-07:00

Ask and you shall be given... seek and you shall find. On November 1, 2010 the Oakes Field Campus Library will start Thanksgiving early with a week of giving, "Library Users Appreciation Week" (November 1-6, 2010). During this week users may pick up a library appreciation packet from Mrs. Hinsey or from the reference librarian.

We also welcome COB faculty, staff and students to attend the APA Refresher: LIMS Lunchtime Information session at 12pm on November 1 in the Information Commons area.

Find out about the new APA 6th edition
Find out how to find sources of almost correct references
Find online help with formatting references

We are GIVING YOU the opportunity to FIND what you SEEK!

Welcome to MBA Students

2010-10-22T08:40:00.000-07:00

Welcome to COB’s first cadre of MBA students! Since yours is a brand new programme, the Library is still in the process of adding resources and services to meet your needs. Please do let us know what you are working on and what your information needs are.

Hints for starting your research:

Business books are shelved in the “H” section (where Social Sciences books live):

HB – HC Economics

HD Management ; organizational behavior; industries and professions

HF Commerce; business; accounting; business communication; advertising

HG Finance; banking; insurance

HJ Public finance; revenue; public accounting

Databases to try for Business Research:

Business Source Complete (through EBSCOhost) for access to scholarly journal articles in all “disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.” It also includes a limited amount of market research, economic forecasts, company reports, etc. EBSCOhost can be searched both on and off campus. For off campus access, see the Circulation or Reference desks for login information.

JSTOR helps you find scholarly journal articles that are at least 5 years old. JSTOR does not contain articles from current journal issues. Disciplines covered in JSTOR include marketing & advertising, management and organizational behavior, finance, public policy & administration, and economics. JSTOR is only available on campus.

-Cathleen LeGrand, Public Services Librarian

Changes in Computer Access in the Main Library

2010-10-21T08:06:00.001-07:00

Computers in the Main Library are in high demand. Use of these computers is capped at 1.5 hours – time-management software loaded on each computer logs the user off the computer once the time limit is reached. At that point, students are asked to give over the computer to another student.

The goal of the time limit is to ration a limited resource (computers) so as to allow access to that resource to the greatest number of students. Unfortunately, many students adhere to neither the letter nor the spirit of the rule – they don’t free up the computer once their time is over and make no attempt to accommodate other students. As a result, the library now has to force students to share.

Beginning on Tuesday, 12 October, access to computers is the Main Library’s Information Commons is strictly limited to 1.5 hours at a time. Students who wish to use one of these computers must get a PIN number, which they will need to log into a computer. After the 1.5-hour time limit is reached, students will not be able to log back into any computer in the Information Commons for one hour.

E-Resources Fair - September 30th 2010

2010-09-18T10:59:00.000-07:00

COME, ENJOY LIMS E-RESOURCES FAIR!!!

DATE: THURSDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2010

TIME: 12 P.M. - 2 P.M.

VENUE: ALL LIBRARY BRANCHES

TAKE A BYTE OUT OF E-RESOURCES AS YOU LEARN HOW TO USE EFFECTIVELY RESOURCES SUCH AS J-STOR, NET LIBRARY, EBSCO DATABASES....

For more information contact Antoinette Pinder, E-Resources Librarian at 302-4554 or email at apinder@cob.edu.bs

- Antoinette Pinder, Electronic Resources Librarian

Tings tough, but this ain no bluff!!

2010-06-21T08:48:00.000-07:00

Four days of Amnesty June 23 - 26, 2010. What is Amnesty? It is your opportunity to find those overdue books and return them to your local library without any penalties. Overdues fines and fees will be waived. Yes ALL GONE!!

To take part in this event you must do the following:

inform us that you like this event by clicking the "Like" link on our Facebook page;
return the books to the circulation desk of the library where the books were borrowed;
fill out a brief questionnaire provided by the library staff and your fines will be waved.

Don't you miss it!!!!

Do it the right way; be it APA or MLA!

2010-06-11T09:25:00.000-07:00

APA Style and Citation

General rules:
• All works in your List of References must be cited within your paper. Do not include resources you consulted but do not cite (or paraphrase)
• Italicize book and journal titles. Do not italicize article titles
• Italicizing is preferred but underlining is an acceptable replacement for italics
• Do not include publication (publisher and place of publication) information for periodicals
• Do not include the first names of authors or editors. Use only the initials
• Leave a space between initials (e.g. Rowling, J. K., not J.K.)
• Connect multiple author names with an “&” not the word “and”
• When there are more than five listed authors, replace subsequent authors with “et al”
• If no author is given, begin the entry with the title
• List all entries alphabetically by the last name of the author (or by title, if, as determined above, the cited work has no author)
• Double space all lines in the List of References

Rules for the capitalization of titles:
• Capitalize the first letter of every main word of a periodical (journal, magazine or newspaper) title
• Capitalize only the very first letter of an article title
• Capitalize only the very first letter of a book title
• Always capitalize all proper names

Rules for citing electronic resources:
• Search engines such as Google and Yahoo are not sources. They merely point you to sources.
• If the date a webpage was created (or updated) is not given, put "n.d." (no date) in the citation in place of the date. (Do not confuse the date created with the date you retrieved it.)
• For articles retrieved in full text from a database (e.g. “Academic Search Premier” via EBSCOhost), include the full name of the database. Don't include the web address (URL).

Need more help? Try one of these sites:

APA101 http://www.docstyles.com/apastudy.htm
APA Style Guide www.psychwww.com/resource/apacrib.htm
OWL at Purdue owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
APA Style http://library.nmu.edu/guides/userguides/style_apa.htm
APA Style Wizard http://www.stylewizard.com/apa6index.html

MLA Style and Citation

General Rules:

• All resources included in your list of Works Cited must be cited within your paper. Do not include resources you consulted but did not cite (or paraphrase).
• Capitalize all words in a title except for articles, prepositions and conjunctions. However, always capitalize the first word of a title regardless.
• Do not include publication information for periodicals.
• Underline book and journal titles.
• Place quotation marks around the titles of journal articles.
• If a source has more than one author, list the first author last name first and all subsequent authors first name first.
• If a source has four or more authors, include the first author (last name first), followed by et al.
• Place a citation as close to the quoted or paraphrased material as possible without disrupting the sentence.
• When material from the same page in a resource is used throughout a paragraph, use one citation at the end of the paragraph rather than a citation at the end of each sentence.

Rules for citing electronic resources:
• Search engines such as Google and Yahoo are not sources. They merely point you to sources.
• Place angle brackets <> around the URL.
• If your source features fixed page numbers or section numbering (such as numbering of paragraphs), cite the relevant numbers.
• If your source does not feature page numbers, omit this step.

Need more help? Try one of these websites:

The OWL at Purdue: MLA Formatting and Style Guide owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/
The Writing Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocMLA.html
MLA Tutorial, University of Southern Mississippi www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/tutorials/mlatutorial/tutorialindex.php
Citation Styles Online www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html
MLA Style Wizard www.stylewizard.com/mla/index.html

~prepared by C. Legrand

Quick Instructions for EBSCOhost

2010-06-10T08:11:00.000-07:00

What Is EBSCOhost?

EBSCOhost is a web-searchable collection of periodical articles – articles from magazines, scholarly journals and newspapers.

How to access EBSCOhost from within the library:
• Go to the COB Library homepage: http://www.cob.edu.bs/
• At the bottom of the page, click on Enter
• On the left-hand column, click on Libraries
• On the right-hand column, under the “Search” label, click on EBSCO
• Click on EBSCOhost Web
• Select one or more databases to search by clicking the box beside each database’s title.
• Click Continue

How to access EBSCOhost when outside the library:
• Visit the Circulation desk at any branch library to get a user name and password.
• Go to http://search.epnet.com
• When prompted for user ID and password, enter username and password you were provided with
• Click on EBSCOhost Web
• Select one or more databases to search by clicking the box beside each database’s title.
• Click Continue

To search:

• To search by keyword, type your keyword in the SEARCH box. To combine two separate keywords, type each keyword in a separate SEARCH box. For example: to find articles on education in the Bahamas, type “education” in the first FIND box and “Bahamas” in the second.

• To search by Subject Heading, click on the “Subject Terms” or “Thesaurus” button. Type your subject in the BROWSE box to see a list of official subject headings.

• To make your search smaller and more precise, look under the right-hand column: “Limit Your Results.” Click on “Search Options” to see a list of available limiters such as FULL TEXT or SCHOLARLY JOURNALS.

• If your search produces too many results, try refining the search by adding additional keywords or limiters.

• If your search produces too few or no results, try the search again, using different keywords and/or removing some limiters. For example, if you searched for “car accidents,” rerun the search using “auto accidents” or “traffic accidents.”

Ask-a-Librarian:
• You can send a question about using EBSCOhost directly to the Reference Desk at COB’s Main Library. Look for the button in the upper right hand corner.

Viewing articles:
• Not all articles are available via full-text. For full-text articles, look for icons for HTML Full Text or PDF Full Text
• For articles available from COB Library in print format only, look for

Notes: COB Library has the print copy of this journal

Delivery options:
• Email article by clicking on the Email icon
• Save article by clicking on the Save icon
• Print article by clicking on the Print icon.

Interlibrary loan options:
• If you would like COB Library to order a copy of the article for you, select “Click here to order this article through Interlibrary Loan.” Allow at least one week for delivery of each item you request.

~prepared by C. Legrand

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Peer-Review..... Is it reviewed by two?

2010-06-09T11:18:00.000-07:00

Your lecturer may require you to consult a “peer-reviewed” journal. (Such journals may also be described as “refereed” or “scholarly” journals.) But what is a peer-reviewed journal, and why would your lecturer require you to use one?

A peer-reviewed journal only publishes articles that have been critically evaluated and approved by an independent group of qualified experts. To receive approval, the article must offer research considered valid, significant and original.

Valid: are the conclusions supported by the evidence? Is the design and methodology of the study appropriate?
Significant: Does this article present an important finding?
Original: Are these conclusions or results novel? Does this article properly cite and credit the work of predecessors?

The peer-review process helps maintain standards of scholarship – all research is built on the work of others so it is important that published research be of high quality.

Reminder: Many of the research claims you hear about on TV or read about in the newspaper have not been published in peer-reviewed journals!

Warning: The peer-review process is designed to catch major defects in the design, rigorousness and completeness of research. However, it may not catch instances of intentional scientific fraud, academic misconduct or plagiarism.

Hint: Peer-reviewed journals may include materials that have NOT undergone the peer-review process. For example, news, editorials, letters to the editor, and book reviews are not peer reviewed. A general rule of thumb: if an article is short, or if it does not include a bibliography or a list of citations at the end, it has very likely not been peer-reviewed.

Finding Peer-reviewed journals

Limiting a database search to peer-reviewed journals only:

Some databases allow you to limit searches for articles to peer reviewed journals only. Many of the EBSCOhost databases offer this feature – on the left-hand side of the screen, look for the green tab LIMIT YOUR RESULTS. Click on SEARCH OPTIONS and then click in the box to the left of Scholarly (Peer-Reviewed) Journals.

Examining the publication to see if it is peer-reviewed:

Pull a print copy of the journal. Peer-reviewed journals often identify themselves as such in their editorial statements or Instructions to Authors (usually in first few or last few pages of the journal).

Other characteristics:

Is the language formal and scholarly? Does it use technical terminology?
Is the article formatted like a scholarly article: abstract, methodology, results, conclusion, and references?
Is there minimal or no advertising?
Does the journal have a sober and serious appearance? Peer-reviewed journals are not glossy or colorfully illustrated.
Are sources cited in footnotes or a bibliography/list of works cited at the end of the article?

~prepared by C. Legrand

Beautiful Bahamaland - It Keeps Getting Better!

2010-06-08T09:26:00.000-07:00

Try searching our Online Public Access Catalog (COBWEB).
Our Bahamian Collection is located on the second floor in the Main library(Special Collections).

Do you need articles by Bahamian authors?
Have a look at one of the volumes of the Journal of Bahamian Historical Society.

You can also visit the following websites for information on the Bahamas.

The Government of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas http://www.bahamas.gov.bs/

Available information includes:

The Constitution of the Bahamas
General and Vital Statistics
The National Budget
Laws and Acts
Government Agencies

The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology http://www.bahamaseducation.com/

Downloadable publications include:

Education Loan Authority Act
Education Guarantee Fund Act
Manual for Procedures for Pre & Post Hurricane Activities
National Task Force on Education
Safe School Administration Manual
Safe School Students Manual
Teachers Handbook
UN Declarations of the Rights of the Child

The National Health Insurance http://www.nib-bahamas.com/

The Nassau Guardian http://www.thenassauguardian.com/

Online archive of issues back to 2002

The Tribune http://www.tribune242.com/

Create a free account to view the online archive

The Bahama Journal http://www.jonesbahamas.com/

Online archive of issues back to Nov. 2004

~prepared by E. Bain and C. Legrand

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Oh Be Careful Little Hands What You Do!

2010-06-07T07:52:00.000-07:00

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is the use of someone else’s original words or ideas as though they were your own. Any time you borrow from any source and do not give proper credit, you have committed plagiarism and may have violated copyright laws.

All of the following are considered plagiarism:

turning in someone else’s work as your own
copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit
failing to put quoted material in quotation marks
giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation
changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit
copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not

Reminder: You are allowed to borrow ideas or phrases from other sources, provided you cite those sources properly. Simply changing or rearranging their words is not sufficient to prevent plagiarism. If you have retained the essential idea of an original source, and have not cited it, then no matter how drastically you may have altered its context or presentation, you have still plagiarized. Even unintentional plagiarism is still plagiarism.

Avoiding Plagiarism

Most cases of plagiarism can be avoided by properly citing sources, by giving credit where credit is due.

Hint: Rule of Thumb for When to Cite

whenever you use quotes
whenever you paraphrase
whenever you use an idea that someone else has already expressed
whenever someone else’s work has been critical in developing your own ideas.

Acknowledging that certain material has been borrowed, and providing your audience with the information necessary to find the source of that material, is usually enough to prevent plagiarism.

Things You May Not Know You Need To Cite

Words or ideas presented in a magazine, book, newspaper, song, TV or program movie, Web page, computer program, email, letter, advertisement, or any other medium
Information you gain through interviewing or conversing with another person, face to face, over the phone, or in writing
Diagrams, illustrations, charts, pictures, photos, drawings or other visual materials
Words, phrases or ideas from any electronically-available media , including image files, audio, video, or other media

Even If You Got It Off the Internet, It Can Still Be Plagiarism!

Steps to Prevent Plagiarism

Know the proper forms of citation and follow the forms precisely.
Take good notes – make sure you have clearly noted what is verbatim and what is paraphrased; what are your own ideas and what ideas are borrowed. Include full documentation of all sources consulted.
Plan ahead – you will be less tempted to plagiarize if you have sufficient time to research and write your paper.
When in doubt, cite.

Consequences of Plagiarism

The COB Catalogue outlines the specific punishments for academic plagiarism. The ultimate penalty is explusion from the institution.

Plagiarism has consequences in the non-academic world as well. Corporations, institutions and other work places will not tolerate it in any form. You could lose you job or be denied a position if you have been guilty of plagiarism.

The Owl @Purdue: Avoiding Plagiarism. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/02/

http://www.plagiarism.org/

http://turnitin.com/

~ prepared by Cathleen Legrand

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Research Presentations for English 119 and 120 Now Available

2010-06-06T21:43:00.000-07:00

Click the links below and view the presentations created by our Reference and Access Librarians just for you.

English 119 Presentation

English 120 Presentation

We know that some of you may be working or may not be on campus much, so this summer we are giving you the option of scheduling appointments with our Reference librarian at the Main Library. The appointments can be face-to-face sessions or online chat sessions via Facebook. To schedule an appointment please send an email to referencedesk@cob.edu.bs .

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REACTS information literacy model

2010-04-13T15:39:00.000-07:00

Pitts/Stripling Research Model (PSRM)

This is a continuation of a series I am blogging on the Research Process. With the exception of the discussion on the BIG6, most of the models discussed here have been rather straight forward and could easily be handled by any class. The REACTS Taxonomy developed by Barbara Stripling and Judy Pitts focuses on critical thinking in the research process. This model focuses on strategies for ensuring high level thinking and resulting quality products.

The R-E-A-C-T-S Taxonomy includes the following elements:

• Recalling
• Explaining
• Analyzing
• Challenging
• Transforming
• Synthesizing

One of the outcomes of this model is creative thinking on the part of the student(s). They are not just sponges. As many school systems in the United States have standards under which they operate, a scheme such as this provides ample capacity to show that students are achieving at high level of cognitive skills.

The Pitts/Stripling Research Model consists of 10 steps.

1. Choose a broad topic
2. Get an overview
3. Narrow the topic
4. Develop thesis statement
5. Formulate questions
6. Plan for research
7. Find, analyze, evaluate
8. Evaluate evidence
9. Establish conclusions
10. Create and present final product

This is a process. It is not a quick in and quick out. It is necessary that students question the information gathered.

Veltze, L. (2003). The Pitts/Stripling MODEL OF INFORMATION LIBRARY. School Library Media Activities Monthly, 19(8), 19. Retrieved December 3, 2009 from Education Research Complete database (EbscoHost)

-Chris Bull, Northern Campus Librarian

Credo Reference: a Virtual Bookshelf of Reference Works

2010-04-08T10:27:00.000-07:00

Do you need to find:

• an image of a work of art?
• a definition of a scientific term?
• a map of a geographical location?
• an explanation of a literary reference?
• kilometers per liter from miles per gallon?
• the pronunciation of erysipelas?

Try Credo Reference -- an online Reference collection, featuring full-text content from hundreds of reference books (like dictionaries and encyclopedias) covering a broad range of subjects. Credo Reference is a search engine like Google but, instead of searching the entire Internet, your results come from a collection of comprehensive and authoritative sources. Credo Reference lets you avoid all the irrelevant hits, advertising and clutter, taking you directly to quick and accurate answers.

Subjects covered by Credo Reference:

Art, Literature, Religion, Business, Medicine, Science, Food, Music,
Social Science, Geography, Philosophy, Technology, Law, Psychology

To access Credo Reference:

• Go to the COB homepage: http://www.cob.edu.bs/
• At the bottom of the page, click on Enter
• On the left-hand column, click on Libraries
• On the right-hand column, click on Research Resources
• Scroll down to the Multidisciplinary Databases section
• Click on Credo Reference
• If you are off-campus, you will need to enter the Username and Password (you can get these from the Circulation Desk at any of COB’s branch libraries)

To search:• Enter one keyword into the Search box and click the Search button. Credo Reference will search for that keyword in every book in its reference library.
• To combine multiple keywords or concepts, use Advanced Search.
• If you are uncertain how to spell your keyword or concept, use the spelt & sounds like search option.

Delivery Options:• Email article by clicking on Email to a friend
• Print article by clicking on printer-friendly version (Please note: the library does not offer print capability at this time.)

Citation Options:
You can select APA or MLA citation style for all entries. At the bottom of each entry, click on the button for your desired style and Credo Reference will format your citation for you.

-Cathy LeGrand, Public Services Librarian

Pharmacy E-Books

2010-04-07T13:55:00.000-07:00

Although the number of print books for the pharmacy programme is small, the library has purchased access to a variety of electronic books (e-books) that can be accessed 24/7.

Netlibrary - http://www.cob.edu.bs/Library/index.php

(Create a personal account to access these titles from home)

*Physicochemical Principles of Pharmacy
*Understanding Drug Release and Absorption Mechanisms: A Physical and Mathematical Approach
*Martindale: the Complete Drug Reference 36th ed.
*British National Formulary. 58
*Pharmaceutical Compounding and Dispensing
*Applied Pharmaceutical Practice

StatRef – http://www.cob.edu.bs/Library/index.php

(Ask at the Information Desk for a User ID and Password to access these titles from home)

*Pharmacotherapeutics: A Primary Care Clinical Guide - 2nd Edition, 2005
*Handbook of Institutional Pharmacy Practice - 4th Edition, 2006
*Evidence-Based Pharmacotherapy (2007)
*Basic & Clinical Pharmacology - 11th Edition, 2009
*APhA Complete Review for Pharmacy - 6th Edition, 2009
*APhA DRUGInfoLINE® 2000 to Present - June 2009
*Applied Biopharmaceuticals & Pharmacokinetics - 2005

NCBI Bookshelf http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=books

(These titles – and more – are FREE on the Internet)

*Immunobiology
*Drug Class Reviews
*Biochemistry
*AHFS Consumer Medication Information
*Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Evidence Reports

- Virginia Ballance, Nursing and Allied Health Professions Librarian

Information Literacy and Critical Thinking

2010-04-01T06:48:00.000-07:00

I am in the middle of doing a series of blogs describing a number of search strategies/information literacy models. I just came across a library blog http://inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2010/critical-literacy-information/

which is talking about the crossover of information literacy and the development of critical thinking.

Over the past few weeks, I have been talking about established models in doing research. As you must have noticed (if you are following this thread), that there is a fair amount of repetition among the models outlined. Bye and large they all do the same thing and they are based on theoretical models.

The crossover occurs when considering assessment of student learning, especially that of critical thinking. This higher order tasks are separate from those which regurgitate information. The following 8 factors are often listed:

· Generates purposes
· Raises questions
· Uses information
· Utilizes concepts
· Makes inferences
· Makes assumptions
· Generates implications
· Embodies a point of view

This rubric might indeed look familiar to you, as it is no doubt in part how your work at COB is graded.

Likewise, searching for information goes beyond just the mechanics of finding it and writing down the citation. A good deal of what needs to be done by the student is to develop these “higher” capabilities. This relies on judgment. Over and over again, I tell students who are looking for a certain topic as it relates to the Bahamas, that this material does not exist (i.e. no one has done the research). That they (the student) must rely on like materials written someplace else and bring it into the Bahamian context.

More often than not, the biggest challenge students face is interpreting what is being asked of them by their lecturer. A case in point this week, was the term “character education”. A number of students came into the library searching for this term. We asked in what context it was used and what they thought it could mean, they drew a blank. None of the students thought about questioning or asking the lecturer to expand on what he wanted. After doing a bit of subject searching and asking the students in what areas this came up, I suggested that the proper term they were looking for was “moral education”. No, they wanted character education. Even though we had materials on moral education, they went away empty handed and perhaps empty headed.

This is where higher education becomes higher education. Students are expected to be at a stage greater than primary or secondary. Students must be able to locate, gather, evaluate, synthesize, and responsibly use information. Having information is one thing, turning it into knowledge is something else.

-Chris Bull, Northern Campus Librarian

Drinking the Cool-Aid

2010-03-25T08:28:00.000-07:00

A few months ago PBS in the States presented Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier as part of the Frontline series. The starting point was looking at an extensive survey done several years ago and lately and the shift in online use. (Both the Pew Internet and American Life Project and the Kaiser Family Foundation,)

One of the surprising findings was the fact that participants self-defined that multi-tasking made them better students – students are apt to believe each other, i.e. to drink the cool-aid. However, multi-tasking interferes with one’s ability to focus and concentrate. I suppose it comes down to what kind of focus you really need; communicating with several friends at the same time in chat rooms, is just often a line by line stream of consciousness – there is no beginning, middle and end.

So Ok, all you Gen M’s at COB, take heed and note. A fine article on the pitfalls of multi-tasking can be found online http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1174696,00.html.

For the real McCoy
Wallis, C., Cole, W., Steptoe, S., & Dale, S. (2006). The Multitasking Generation. (Cover story). Time, 167(13), 48-55. Retrieved from Academic Search Complete database.

This is the reason why many faculty take offense to the use of computers during their classes. Doing so is rude especially if not being used for the soul task of note taking, but more to the point your full attention is not focused.

It is ironic that I am using a blog to mention this. The question of course is “Is there anyone out there?” People write blogs, compose mp3 files, twit, etc. but to what purpose? To make themselves heard? To scrawl on the walls the digital wasteland, the fact that they were there?

- Chris Bull, Northern Campus Librarian

Book Renewal Instructions

2010-03-19T07:02:00.000-07:00

Sick and tired of getting overdue fines, seeing you name on the Overdue List posted outside the library, or being blocked at registration? Keep your Library account clear and avoid overdue fines by renewing your books before they are due (and returning them on time!!) There are three ways to renew:

1. ON-LINE – Before the due date!

· Visit the COB Library catalogue at http://199.117.46.222

· Choose Log in from the menu.

· Enter your Student ID Number and Surname

· Choose the books you want to renew and click on Request Renewal for a further two weeks loan (and make a note of the new date and bring them back to the library before they are due!)

2. BY PHONE – Call the library before the books are due and we will renew them for you. If you call after they are due, we can still renew them and we will let you know what the fines are. Be sure to come in and settle your account within a week. Unpaid files will result in blocked registration.

3. IN PERSON – anytime – If the books are already overdue, you can pay the fine and extend the loan period.

Please come and see us at the Circulation/Reference desk at any COB Library location if you encounter problems with borrowing books from COB Libraries. Thank you!

- Virginia Ballance, Nursing and Health Sciences Librarian.

Snopes.com: The Debunker’s Guide to the Universe

2010-03-08T11:57:00.000-08:00

Did you just get forwarded an email alarm about a new computer virus, health scare or widespread hazard? I’m sure you know not to believe everything you read, especially not everything you read on the internet. Before you believe the next urban legend or embarrass yourself by forwarding misinformation to all your friends and family, check Snopes.com.

www.snopes.com does a great job compiling all the latest rumors, hoaxes and false reports and checking their relative accuracies.

-Cathy LeGrand, Public Services Librarian

Greening the COB Libraries: How we Recycle, Reuse and Reduce

2010-03-02T09:29:00.000-08:00

COB Libraries have “gone green”. Taking on the challenge posed by COB President Janyne Hodder in August of last year, the COB Libraries have initiated a number of small steps to make sure that we are not unnecessarily wasteful, that we don’t add to the waste burden of the island of New Providence or Grand Bahama, and that we are active stewards in improving the environment.

Recycle
The first little step was to recycle the toner and ink cartridges that we use in the library. As you know, students print a great deal in the library, therefore we naturally generate quite a few spent cartridges. In the past these were dumped in the garbage and ended up in the New Providence (or Grand Bahama) Land Fill. Once in a while, some staff would take the empty cartridges with them in their suitcases to Florida to return them to Hewlett-Packard by courier, but of late, Custom Computers (http://www.customcomputers.bs/Site/Home.html) has started to accept empty cartridges and return them to Hewlett-Packard. Some inkjet cartridges can be refilled and can be returned to local companies. But as the library uses mostly laser printers, this is not an option.

And we recycle old newspapers – they are taken to the Bahamas Humane Society or to veterinary medical offices. They always need newspapers to line animal cages! Newspapers printed without coloured inks can also be torn into strips and used as fertilizer in your vegetable garden.

Reuse
A not so little step is to reduce the volume of paper that we use in the library. Reams of paper are wasted by students – printouts are not collected from the printer, multiple copies of things are printed and discarded….library staff use the blank reverse side to print internal reports, forms, etc. or cut the scrap up for notes.

Reduce
Another small effort that makes a big difference is to use double-sided copying for all large documents – this reduces the amount of paper used,

We also monitor the environment to help the College reduce its electricity bills: we turn off lights and air conditioning units in classrooms if they have been left on at the end of the day. We keep the temperature in the library at a stable 24 C. The AC units work best if they are set and stay at one fixed temperature. We also reduce our electricity bills by having changed all our incandescent light bulbs for the new low-energy fluorescent bulbs.

There are many other ways we are trying to recycle, reuse and reduce in the library. Even this blog could be in that category – as we are communicating with you electronically rather than printing a newsletter – wasting paper, ink and human resources.

-Virginia Ballance, Nursing and Health Sciences Librarian

NetLibrary

2010-02-17T07:14:00.000-08:00

NetLibrary offers a comprehensive collection of electronic books (e-books) from a variety of disciplines.

The COB Library has licenced use of several collections of e-books from NetLibrary – for a total of 324 titles available in Full Text.

The collections

Nursing– including Nursing Care Plan books.

Psychology

Caribbean sociology, education and literature

Pharmacy – including Martindale: the complete drug reference (36th ed.).

How to access NetLibrary

1. From any computer on campus, go directly to the NetLibrary webpage at www.netlibrary.org

2. There is also a link to NetLibrary from the COB Library webpage.

3. If you wish to access NetLibrary from outside the library, create bookmarks or save notes, you will have to create a NetLibrary User Account while you are logged on using a COB computer on campus. This is easy to do: Click on the Create an Account link and fill in the blanks. We recommend that you use your COB Computer User Name and Password – as it is easy to remember.

-Virginia Ballance, Nursing and Allied Health Professions Librarian

The Nursing Care Plan

2010-02-09T07:34:00.000-08:00

Every nursing student has to learn how to do a nursing care plan. The Hilda Bowen Library has a vast collection of care plan books in its Reserve Collection. Why on Reserve? To ensure that all students can have access to them when they need them.

But students rarely look farther than the Reserve Shelf for a print copy of a care plan book, and as a result overlook many other good sources of information on preparing care plans.

Care Plan Book Websites
Many of the print care plan books have a companion website that provides free access to a care plan maker. When you find a care plan book you like, make a note of its companion website and visit it often.

Textbooks
Many of the Medical Surgical Nursing textbooks include care plan information – indeed some are subtitled “a nursing care plan approach” – that is a clue that the book will be full of guidance on constructing a care plan.

E-Books
If one of the print books has an electronic counterpart, there is a good chance that the library has purchased access to it.

Stat!Ref has 5 titles: Delmar’s Geriatric, Delmar’s Pediatric, Nursing Pocket Guide, Nursing Diagnosis in Psychiatric Nursing, Sparks and Taylors’s Nursing Diagnosis Reference Manual.

Netlibrary has several care plan books too: Doenges Nurses Pocket Guide and Doenges Nursing Care Plans Guidelines for Patient Care.

Book CDs
Many books come with a companion CD – these are stored separately at HBL – and can be borrowed for home use overnight as a Reserve item.

Care Plan Websites
There are countless websites with care plan information on them. A word of caution, many are trying to sell you something and might be full of advertisements and pop-ups. But if you find a site that works for you, be sure to bookmark it. An example is: http://www.careplans.com/

Journal articles
The CINAHL database is the gold standard for accessing nursing journals: every article is analyzed for content and form, patient demographics, diseases, disorders and so forth. Using the Advanced search screen to search for the disease or condition of your patient, you can then scroll down to impose limits on the types of articles retrieved. An important limit is Publication type: choose CARE PLAN. If necessary you can also limit by the patient’s age group. Journal articles can be very helpful for explaining how to prepare a plan of care for a particular type of patient with a particular disease or disorder.

Videos
Yes, at the HBL we even have videos on the Nursing Care Plan. Search the online catalogue and limit results to AV materials.

Learning how to construct a good nursing care plan is the key to become a compassionate nurse with excellent critical thinking and diagnostic skills.

-Virginia Ballance, Nursing and Allied Health Professions Librarian

Primary vs. Secondary Sources

2010-02-08T12:04:00.000-08:00

Primary sources are the foundation of your library research. They constitute direct evidence of your topic. Primary sources are “first-hand” documents such as:
• Research results generated from experiments or surveys
• Official documents
• Laws, treaties, court records, etc.
• Contemporary accounts of events (newspaper articles, letters, diaries, photographs, audio or video recordings, memoirs, autobiographies, etc.)
• Interviews with or accounts by eyewitnesses to an event

Secondary sources interpret, analyze, evaluate, or comment on or primary sources. Secondary sources are always one step removed from the event. Secondary sources include:
• Most books and articles
• Criticism, reviews, commentaries and analyses
• Biographies
• Historical accounts of events (accounts that look backward in time)
• Documentaries

Secondary sources are very valuable, particularly when you are researching a topic outside of your area of expertise. (For example, a legal decision is a primary source. A lawyer or legal scholar can accurately interpret the decision and can make good use of the primary source. However, non-lawyers might prefer to consult an article interpreting and commenting on that decision – a secondary source.)
Secondary sources can also be useful in helping you locate primary sources. Secondary sources can give clues or point you in helpful directions, by identifying, for instance:
• Key authors
• Titles of seminal works
• Names of important studies

You can use those clues to track down primary sources.

-Cathy LeGrand, Reference Librarian

Information Search Process (ISP)

2010-02-05T08:06:00.000-08:00

This is a continuation of a series I am blogging on the Research Process. If you have been keeping abreast of my offerings and they all begin to sound alike, you are right. The words might differ, but bye and large the steps remain about the same. There is the identification, focus, collection, presentation and assessment. There might be more or fewer steps but the core of the process remains the same. This is not true for the research process, but for many problem solving methods.

I first came across problem solving methodologies in the mid-70s. The made a great impact on me. Up to that time, no one had set me down and laid out a plan AND a review of that plan. The important factor is always assessing you work, is it good enough, does in just cover what you need to do to pass or is the BEST that you are capable of. Japanese has several words which translate as doing one’s best. Matter of fact, this quality is often asked of citizens, workers and students to “ganbarimasu” – do one’s utmost.

But I digress.

In the ISP model, Kuhlthau (1994) puts 7 points very similar to that of the Big6 in play.

• Initiating a research assignment
• Selecting a topic
• Exploring information
• Forming a focus
• Collecting information
• Preparing to present
• Assessing the process

Each of these in turn is broken down into 5 tasks: Task / Thoughts / Feelings / Actions / Strategies e.g.

This models talks about feelings as more holistic models sometimes do. It is good to know that you are not in the boat by yourself. Others have much same questions and fears.

-Chris Bull, Northern Campus Librarian

Nursing E-Books In The COB Virtual Library

2010-02-02T08:13:00.000-08:00

Stat!Ref provides access to a number of core nursing books in electronic format:
AAFP CONDITIONS A TO Z (2008)
ADVANCING YOUR CAREER: CONCEPTS OF PROFESSIONAL NURSING - 4th Ed. (2008)
CONTROL OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES MANUAL - 18th Ed. (2004)
DAVIS'S DRUG GUIDE FOR NURSES - 11th Ed. (2009)
DELMAR'S FUNDAMENTAL & ADVANCED NURSING SKILLS - 2nd Ed. (2004)
DELMAR'S GERIATRIC NURSING CARE PLANS - 3rd Ed. (2005)
DELMAR'S GUIDE TO LABORATORY AND DIAGNOSTIC TESTS (2002)
DELMAR'S PEDIATRIC NURSING CARE PLANS - 3rd Ed. (2005)
DISEASES AND DISORDERS: A NURSING THERAPEUTICS MANUAL - 3rd Ed. (2007)
FOUNDATIONS OF NURSING RESEARCH - 5th Ed (2008)
HIGH ACUITY NURSING - 4th Ed. (2006)
NURSE'S POCKET GUIDE: DIAGNOSES, INTERVENTIONS, & RATIONALES - 11th Ed. (2008)
NURSING DIAGNOSES IN PSYCHIATRIC NURSING - 7th Ed. (2008)
SPARKS AND TAYLOR'S NURSING DIAGNOSIS REFERENCE MANUAL - 7th Ed. (2008)
NURSING MANAGEMENT: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE (2005)
OLDS' MATERNAL-NEWBORN NURSING & WOMEN'S HEALTH ACROSS THE LIFESPAN - 8th Ed. (2008

Access from computers at COB is by IP but from home you will need a User ID and Password. Please ask at the Reference Desk for the log on instructions!

-Virginia Ballance, Nursing and Allied Health Professions Librarian

KWL

2010-02-01T13:37:00.000-08:00

The last time I wrote in the Libraries Blog, I mentioned that I hoped to I hope to cover a number of problem solving/information seeking models in the next few weeks. In this vein, I am continuing with the KWL model in the research process.

The KWL scheme is often the first one students learn in the younger grades as it is fairly graphic and can be plotted easily. It was created by Donna Ogle. It is a student centered model on which the interests and knowledge of the student form a basis. The information is listed in 3 columns.

This method starts with “K” what you “know” about your topic in the first column. In the second column, you record what you “want” to learn, i.e. “W”. In the last column you note what you have “learned”, “L”. In the analysis, students review the list of learned items and to back to their “K” items to revise or alter them.
Using the schemata especially in the early grades allows the students to research areas of interest and of which they might already of some basis of knowledge.
Even if this method might not be appropriate to university work, it is of use as a starting point in analyzing held beliefs, whether they are correct or incorrect and in revising them.

Ogle, D.M. (1986). K-W-L: A teaching model that develops active reading of expository text. Reading Teacher, 39, 564-570.

-Chris Bull, Northen Campus Librarian

LIMS E-Resources Fair

2010-01-25T10:46:00.000-08:00

COME, ENJOY LIMS E-RESOURCES FAIR!!!

DATE: THURSDAY 28 JANUARY 2010

TIME: 11A.M. - 4 P.M.

VENUE: ALL LIBRARY BRANCHES

TAKE A BYTE OUT OF E-RESOURCES AS YOU LEARN HOW TO USE EFFECTIVELY RESOURCES SUCH AS J-STOR, NET LIBRARY, EBSCO DATABASES....

How Do You Say That? Big Changes in Formats and Citation Styles

2010-01-19T12:47:00.000-08:00

Given that change is a constant, it should come as no surprise that new editions of the American Psychological Association (APA) and Modern Languages Association (MLA) formats were published this year (2009). Although the APA format underwent a radical change in its physical arrangement, many of changes in citation formats were seen over the last few years and the new edition only fiddles with certain electronic citations (But you STILL need to pay attention). However, MLA has changed substantially.

The present edition of The St. Martin’s Handbook (2008) at the COB bookstores is sadly out of date. The newer 6th ed. with 2009 MLA format covers the updates. It is therefore important that when writing in the MLA or APA formats that you visit appropriate websites.

The Owl at Purdue. MLA 2009 Formatting and Style Guide
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

The Owl at Purdue. APA Stylistics: Basics
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/15/

As painful as proper style is, take consolation in that we do no have to know the dozens of other citation styles out there.

-Chris Bull Northern Campus Librarian

Online Sources About Haitian Migration

2009-11-24T07:38:00.000-08:00

The issue of Haitian migration to the Bahamas continues to evoke much debate and discussion. In 2005 several researchers at the College of The Bahamas wrote a report for the International Organization for Migration – there have been several opinion editorials published in the Nassau daily newspapers – which are gathered together on the Bahamas Pundit blog.

Bethel, N. (2005). On immigration. Retrieved from http://bahamapundit.typepad.com/bahama_pundit/2005/10/on_immigration.html

International Organization for Migration. (2005). Haitian migration in the Bahamas. Retrieved from http://iom.int/jahia/webdav/site/myjahiasite/shared/shared/mainsite/published_docs/books/Haitian_Migrants_Report.pdf

Marshall, D. (2008, August). Dawn Marshall reviews IOM Migration report. Retrieved from http://www.bahamapundit.com/2008/08/dawn-marshall-r.html#more

Smith, L. (2009, May). Why I vex … a summer time rant: Retrieved from http://www.bahamapundit.com/2009/05/why-i-vex.html#more

Smith, L. (2005). The Haitian dilemma for Bahamian society. Retrieved from the Nassau Institute website http://www.nassauinstitute.org/articles/article503.php

Smith, L. (2005, September). Haitian migration to the Bahamas. Retrieved from http://www.bahamapundit.com/2005/09/the_haitian_mig.html

--- Virginia Ballance, Nursing and Health Sciences Librarian, Hilda Bowen Library, Grosvenor Close Campus

The Big 6

2009-11-23T07:14:00.000-08:00

There are any number of “methods” in arranging ones’ work and doing research. I hope over my next few blogs to cover some of the more popular models. This is all part of “information literacy” – the problem solving, critical thinking, planning and presentation of a research project or presentation.

The Big6 is a widely used method of teaching information gathering skills. It was designed in the early 1990’s by Mike Eisenberg and Bob Berkowitz http://www.big6.com/. It can be used by individuals and within groups. It is based in part on Benjamin Bloom’s taxonomy of cognitive objectives.

Needless to say, there are six steps (they don’t necessarily need to be consecutive). Some Big6 models include substeps.

1. Task Definition. This is the basis. Get a clear understanding of the problem that needs to be addressed, the questions to be answered and the information needed. Brainstorm.

2. Information Seeking Strategies. We live in the “information age” with everything a Google click away. We need to think critically about the criteria that we will use to seek and choose the best sources/material. (Is it a book or an Ebsco article which will best serve your needs?)

3. Location and Access. This means having the necessary skills and “where all” in being able to locate relevant information. (If the material is available through InterLibrary Loan, have you given yourself enough time to access it?)

4. Use of Information. This is the part where the information is examined, notes taken and bibliographies created. (Are you aware of the ALA and MLA formats?)

5. Synthesis. Restructure the information in the best format to communicate the solution for the problem defined in Step 1. Often this step needs to be interleaved with the previous steps – creating an outline, a concept map, sorting into topic groups.

6. Evaluation. This is stepping back from you presentation and asking yourself, “Is this job done?” Was the problem solved or did you just get to fill in the 3-5 pages asked for? Ask for feedback (Present drafts to your instructor. Visit your instructor during their office hours)

As mentioned above, I hope to cover a number of problem solving/information seeking models in the next few weeks.

- Chris Bull - Campus Librarian, Northern Campus

Changes to Wikipedia

2009-11-13T09:28:00.000-08:00

Did you know that Wikipedia is not an authoritative resource? You may love it and find it user-friendly and easy to read, but it is not considered a reliable source of information.

For one thing, “[u]nder the current system, it is not difficult to insert false information into a Wikipedia entry, at least for a short time. In March [2009], for example, a 22-year-old Irish student planted a false quotation attributed to the French composer Maurice Jarre … It was promptly included in obituaries about Mr. Jarre in several newspapers…” (New York Times, 24 August 2009*; available at www.newyorktimes.com)

In an effort to accept “the responsibility [for the integrity of the information it provides] that comes with its vast influence,” Wikipedia is adding a layer of editorial control, at least to any article written about a living person. Under the new system, trusted volunteers will read and approve all changes made to such articles.

Wikipedia still won’t be considered authoritative anytime soon, but these changes should help improve the overall accuracy of the site.

*Cohen, Noam. Wikipedia to Limit Changes to Articles on People. New York Times. 24 August 2009, B1.

-Cathleen LeGrand, Public Services Librarian

Yeah, I just wish

2009-11-11T07:45:00.000-08:00

When I mention to people that I am a librarian, their first reaction is… gee, that’s great you must get to read all day!.

Well, I just wish.

Most of the staff one sees in a library are not librarians. They are the library staff. Working in a library doesn’t equate with being a librarian. Mind you, they don’t get to read either.

Librarians don’t get hired to bide their time and just wait for the next question to be thrown at them. Most of us are working behind the scenes where the students and faculty don’t see us. Even when we are at the Information Desk, we usually have taken something along which is busy work, it might look like we are reading, but it usually is a piece of professional literature which needs to be read.

Librarians attend meetings, write reports, do research, prepare and present lectures, order materials, organize and catalogue materials in addition to serving the public. In many institutions, the Public Services librarians will rotate on and off the desk, serving only 12-15 hours of “contact” time a week. The rest of their time is usually spent behind the scenes or in classrooms.

Being a librarian, I always thought is much like ice-skating. It looks easy, unless you are trying to do it (properly).

-Chris Bull, Librarian - Northern Campus Library

APA Manual and DOIs

2009-11-10T14:57:00.000-08:00

Heads up students and faculty, the American Psychological Association’s Publication Manual, also known as APA style has been updated. The 6th edition which was published in July 2009 is thinner than the 5th edition but it contains updated information about formatting papers, citations and reference lists, particularly electronic references.

One of the more significant changes is that for articles--no matter where you located them--you need to only describe the item in traditional format of: Author, A.A. (Year). Article title. Journal Title, volume #(issue #), pagination. New to the format is to add a DOI on the end.

What is a DOI? Digital Object Identifier
Most journals are now full text and available from a variety of sources – the journal itself, databases such as Ebsco, Pubmed, or any other supplier of electronic or digital content. All publishers are now giving a digital address for articles, journals, books…indeed any digitized content. This is a persistent link or identify number that will never change and that will always take the reader directly to the content.

How to find DOIs?
Easy. DOIs now appear in the article databases as part of the description of the article or on the journal’s web site – but here is an even easier method to find them.
Go to http://www.crossref.org/guestquery and type the title of the article in the search box and voila, the results page will show you all the meta data about the article (double check that you are getting the information for the article you want to reference!) and the DOI. Highlight, cut and paste the DOI on the end of the reference on your list:

Burrows, T. J., & Fielding, W. J. (2005). Views of college students on pit bull “ownership”, New Providence, The Bahamas. Society and Animals, 13(2), 49-62. doi:10.1163/156853005430016

-Virginia Ballance, Nursing and Health Sciences Librarian.

CIP (Cataloguing-in-Publication) Services

2009-11-03T08:19:00.000-08:00

Cataloguing-in-Publication (CIP) is a voluntary free service we offer to Bahamians and international residents. We catalogue books before they are published and the data is produced according to international standards. The aim of the service from the College of the Bahamas (COB) library is to increase pre-publication orders for bibliographic records. Libraries use bibliographic records to identify or locate books within their collection. If you are an author publishing your own book, you will be eligible for CIP services especially if it is a new, revised, or reprinted book on any subject matter to be published in The Bahamas.

If you are interested, please contact Antoinette Pinder, Electronic Resources Librarian by email at apinder@cob.edu.bs or telephone at (242)-302-4554.

-Antoinette Pinder, Electronic Resources Librarian

From The Suggestion Box 24-Aug-2009

2009-10-26T13:02:00.000-07:00

“The younger students talk too much and too loud; they even go to the extent of using their cell phones with out no concern for the other patrons in the library.

This must be curtailed to allow everyone the quality of fair plays each patron deserved”.

LIMS RESPONSE

Given the limited space in the current facility we encourage student to use a classroom or the Gazebo for group discussions. Additionally, minimal talking is allowed on the first floor of the library. The 2nd floor is designated for quiet study. If you are extremely bothered by the noise on any floor, please speak with the Librarian or the Security Officer on duty.

Cell phone conversations are also prohibited in the library. Feel free to bring any infraction to the attention of the Security/librarian.

OPEN ACCESS WEEK OCTOBER 19th - 23rd 2009

2009-10-22T10:53:00.000-07:00

Celebrating the movement toward free public access to scholarly research

What Open Access means for you

Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. OA removes:

• price barriers (subscriptions, licensing fees, pay-per-view fees) and
• permission barriers (most copyright and licensing restrictions)

This means that Open-access articles are available for free “on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers…” (Budapest Open Access Initiative)

Open access offers students & faculty more access and more convenience with fewer barriers and lower costs.

-Cathleen LeGrand, Reference Librarian

The Sweet Smell of Textbooks

2009-09-01T12:50:00.000-07:00

“With college textbooks often costing more than $100 apiece, students spend an average of $700 to $1,100 a year, representing one of their biggest expenses after tuition and room and board. Many students try to save by buying used books … Many students also resell textbooks at the end of the academic year…” (New York Times, 13 August 2009*; available at www.newyorktimes.com)

Are you interested in buying a used textbook? Or selling a textbook you’re finished with? Try http://www.bahamascollegezone.com/. In the “Textbook Exchange” you can find students interested in buying or selling textbooks. You’ll have to register with the site (a free service – look for the “Sign Up” button in the upper-right corner) to make contact with buyers and sellers.

Remember: The COB Libraries do NOT carry textbooks.

*Lewin, Tamar. Textbook Publisher to Rent to College Students. New York Times. 13 August 2009, A10.

-Cathy LeGrand, Reference Librarian

Internationally Published Information on Violent Crime in The Bahamas

2008-04-17T12:46:00.000-07:00

Everyone in the Bahamas is concerned about the high murder rate as well as the high rate of domestic and sexual violence. There have been two reports with information about the Bahamas have have published recently and are available on-line.

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime & World Bank, Latin American and the Caribbean Region. (2007). Crime, violence, and development: Trends, costs, and policy options in the Caribbean. New York: UNODC. Retrieved March 19, 2008 from http://www.unodc.org/pdf/research/Cr_and_Vio_Car_E.pdf

United States. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. (2008, March 11). Bahamas : Country reports on human rights practices, 2007. Retrieved March 19, 2008 from http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2007/100626.htm.
- Virginia Ballance, Nursing and Health Sciences Librarian

COB Library User Survey - You may win a prize!

2008-02-22T08:31:00.000-08:00

The COB Libraries & Instructional Media Services will participating in the 2008 LibQUAL+ survey from 18 February to 14 March. Over 300 faculty and staff and 1,200 students will be asked, by COB e-mail messages, to complete the Web-based questionnaire. There will be prizes awarded to 25 randomly selected students who complete the survey.

The LibQUAL+ web site (https://mail.cob.edu.bs/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.libqual.org) highlights the following benefits for
participation:

* Foster a culture of excellence in providing library service * Help libraries better understand user perceptions of library service quality * Collect and interpret library user feedback systematically over time * Provide libraries with comparable assessment information from peer institutions * Identify best practices in library service * Enhance library staff members' analytical skills for interpreting and acting on data

The fee for basic survey services is $3,000. However, Ms Willamae Johnson, the College Librarian, successfully applied for an in-kind grant to LibQUAL+ to have the costs waived.

A committee is helping to implement the survey and will report on the results to the college community. If you have any questions about the survey, you may send an e-mail to tlundstrom@cob.edu.bs or contact Tom Lundstrom at extension 4554.

Help the Library! Check your COB e-mail account and see if you have been selected to participate in the LibQUAL+ survey. You may win a prize!

Welcome to Our Blog

2008-01-14T11:15:00.000-08:00

Hello Everyone,

Welcome to the blog of the College of The Bahamas Libraries blog. Here you will find information about the libraries' latest happenings as well as information about new resources available to our users. We invite your feedback on the blog as we seek to make the library more accessible to our users.

-Catharine Archer, Access Services Librarian