Library Services and Resources for STVU

THINGS ARE CHANGING AND RAPIDLY … WHAT A DIFFERENCE 8 YEARS MAKES….

2005

2013

THIS IS TRUE FOR LIBRARIES AS WELL …

THIS…

is now this…

HOW WE GET INFORMATION HAS CHANGED, … IS CHANGING STILL…

LIBRARIES ARE ABOUT INFORMATION AND NOT JUST BOOKS …

To find library resources

• You must go online to the library webpage.

How do you find books?

WALNET Walnet is the University’s online card catalog – it contains information or links to all of the Library’s holdings.

You can search for the following information: • Words or Phrase

(Keywords) • Author • Title • Subject • Series • Periodical Title • ISBN

Online Catalog

Where to find books: Collections

Reference (Reference reading room) Reserves (Periodicals reading room) E-Books (online) (the above books are library-use only)

General circulating collection (in “the stacks”) African-American Studies (also in the stacks)

How do you find articles and journals?

Off-Campus Access to Databases

• Sign in with your VUU email username and VUU email password.

ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials – most used by STVU

To get better results use “Limit your results”

3 tips for searching databases

• For most databases, to keep phrases together use double quotation marks.

Example: “database searching”

• Use the keywords of your research question, not the whole question.

• Use “limiters” or search options to keep your results to a manageable number.

Online Research Guides

• Called LibGuides

• Found on the library webpage under “Research”

• Anyone can use them- even off campus, no log-in needed

• lots of information on materials, links to good websites, etc.