Your Library Blog: September 2006

Your Library Blog

New trial database - Anatomy TV! (9/28/06)

Trial Dates: September 28 to October 31, 2006
Database Type: Interactive 3-D Images, Text
Subjects: Anatomy
Publisher/Vendor: Primal Pictures
Link to Database: click here

Database Content/Information:
Anatomy TV provides a complete and accurate anatomical reference - in three dimensions. Each title goes beyond any traditional textbook. Users can rotate the 3D model on the computer screen, peel away layers, and label any visible feature. The 3D presentation is accompanied by anatomical text. Other text types, such as clinical and radiological text, may also accompany the presentation.

It is an essential tool for use in teaching, in the clinic, and in presentations. As a patient information resource, it has unmatched power to convey anatomical features in a comprehensible format. As a teaching tool, its unique graphic content provides a new and powerful educational resource.

Do you like this database?
Please contact the science librarian, Laura Blalock (email: lblalock@tntech.edu or call: 931-372-6237) to tell her! This will help in her decision to purchase the database for the library.

New trial database - Black Studies Center! (9/25/06)

Trial Dates: September 25 to October 21, 2006
Database Type: Some full text journals & newspapers
Subjects: black studies
Publisher/Vendor: Proquest
Link to Database: click here (password is welcome)

Database Content/Information:
Black Studies Center is a leading tool that supports research, teaching, and learning in Black Studies and other disciplines that benefit from a more detailed coverage of the black experience such as history, literature, political science, sociology, philosophy, and religion. Black Studies Center is a fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and much more.

Do you like this database?
Please contact the science librarian, Laura Blalock (email: lblalock@tntech.edu or call: 931-372-6237) to tell her! This will help in her decision to purchase the database for the library.

Check out a new trial journal database - IOP Journals! (9/20/06)

IOP Journals

Trial Dates: October 1 to November 30, 2006
Database Type: Full Text Journals
Subjects: Physics, Enginnering, Chemistry, Biology
Publisher/Vendor: IOP (Institute of Physics)
Coverage: 1874-present
Link to Database: click here

Database Content/Information:
The IOP is a leading international professional body and learned society and we yhave been publishing scientific information for 130 years. Currently IOP publishes 43 journals of research in all major fields of physics and into the disciplines of engineering, chemistry and biology. This trial access will include all 43 current IOP titles, including 5 journals introduced this year. The access will also include the full IOP Journal Archive - all issues, 54 titles, published since 1874.

Check out our newest electronic journal database - PsychARTICLES! ()

PsychARTICLES

Database Type: Full Text Journals
Subject: Psychology
Publisher/Vendor: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA)
Coverage: 1985-present
Link to Database: click here

Database Content/Information:
PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals with the exception of advertisements and editorial board lists.

Subscription cost funded by the Volpe Library.

Media Center & Multimedia Studio Tours (9/8/06)

Students, do you want to create eye-popping, knock-your-socks-off multimedia projects? Do you need a place to practice your multimedia project? Do you want to learn computer-based video editing?

How: Call 372-6113 to reserve the Multimedia Production Studio or Room 110.

Where: Media Center Service Desk

Special note for Tech Faculty: We will be glad to offer 50 minute presentations for your classes! Call Pat McGee at 372-3544.

Library Tours! (9/5/06)

Do you ever wonder where everything is in the Library? And what services we offer? We will be giving tours of the library and describing our services all semester.

When: 2 PM and 3 PM
Mondays, Tuesday, and Wednesdays
September 11 through November 29

Where: Information Desk right inside the front door

Join us for some fun and a chance to improve your ability to find the information you need!

Special note for Tech Faculty: We will be glad to use sign up sheets and forward them to you if you are interested in using these tours as an assignment.

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