Various changes became necessary in the North
Campus library because some of the space that we had on the first floor
was assigned to the Computer Courtyard now under construction and to the
College Prep Reading and Writing Lab.As a result, there is a good chance that next time you look for
something in the library, you will not find it where it was a few months
or even a few weeks ago.These
are some of those changes:
The Reference Desk, the
SIRS/InfoTrac computers, and the entire
reference collection are now locatedon the second floor of the library.
Books in the circulating collection with call numbers from 400 to 599
have also been moved upstairs.The
call numbers on the second floor now go from 400 to 999.
The library’s Computer Island, which was used by students for word
processing purposes, has been dismantled.Students who need to type papers will have access to the computers
in Media Services and in some of the campus computer labs.
Library
patrons can still find the Circulation/Reserve Desk, the circulating books
with call numbers from 001 to 399, and the biography, fiction, short
story, and McNaughton (recent best sellers) collections on the first
floor.The Periodicals Department and the library classroom remain
in the same location on the second floor.
FirstSearch started to offer access to seven
more databases on August 1, 1999. Approximately
sixty databases are now available through FirstSearch; all of them
support academic research and some are full text.FirstSearch is one of the options on the main menu of the
library’s LINCC computers.It
can also be reached through the MDC Home Page (www.mdc.edu).Just click on LEARNING RESOURCES and then on LINCCWeb
JOURNAL INDEXES AND DATABASES.The Borrower ID is the user’s MDC library card number.The following are the new FirstSearch databases.The descriptions were provided by the College Center for Library
Automation (CCLA).
Business
& Industry--A full-text
database containing facts, figures, and key events in the areas ofindustry, manufacturing, markets, and public and private
business.
Business
Dateline--Online
articles from over 450 sources, including regional and national businesspublications and newspapers.
Contemporary
Women’s Issues--Full-text
access to global information on women.
ERIC--A guide
to published and unpublished education materials, with more than 850,000
annotated references to nonjournal sources.
Medline--Indexes over
3,500 medical journals published worldwide, and corresponds to the print
indexes of Index to Dental Literature and International
Nursing Index
MLA
Bibliography-- This product of the Modern Language Association of America
provides over one million citations from over 4,000 journals and serials.
SIRS
Researcher--A general
reference database containing full-text articles on various social issues.
“The
Wall that Heals,” the traveling Vietnam veterans memorial that will be
at the North Campus later this semester, will undoubtedly generate a lot
of interest in the Vietnam War.Anyone who wishes to learn more about this topic can count on the
library for help.Here are a
few research tips:
The
general encyclopedias provide brief overviews of the War.We
also have a one-volume encyclopedia that specializes in the Vietnam
War, the Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War, whichwas edited by Stanley I. Kutler and published in 1996 by
Charles Scribner’s Sons.The
call number is REF 959.704303 E56.
The
library has nearly two hundred circulating books about the Vietnam
War.Many of them are listed under the subject heading Vietnamese
Conflict, 1961-1975 in the LINCC catalog.That same subject heading leads to numerous subheadings and related
subjects.
Look
for article citations in The New York Times Index and in the Reader’s
Guide to Periodical Literature.The
subject headings are Vietnam and Vietnam War in The
New York Times Index and Vietnamese War, 1957- and Vietnamese
War, 1957-1975 in the Readers’ Guide to Periodical
Literature.The volumes covering the 1960's and 1970's will be especially
helpful.The North Campus library has The New York Times as
well as many of the magazines identified in the Readers’ Guide.The articles written and published during the time of the Vietnam
War will be on microfilm.
It
is also possible to go directly to the microfilm collection if you
just wish to browse.Practically every issue of The New York Times, The
Miami Herald, and the major news magazines (Newsweek, Time,
U.S. News & World Report, etc.) published between the mid
1960's and the mid 1970's contains information about the war.
The
following books were recently ordered for our library collection.They
should be available in a few weeks: Keith Beattie, The Scar That Binds:
American Culture and the Vietnam War (New York University Press,
1998); Kristin A. Hass, Carried to the Wall: American Memory and the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial (University of California Press, 1998);
Kevin C. Hillstrom, The Vietnam Experience: A Concise Encyclopedia of
American Literature, Songs and Films (Greenwood, 1998); Arnold R.
Isaacs, Vietnam Shadows: The War, Its Ghosts, and Its Legacy
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997); Wayne Karlin, ed., The Other
Side of Heaven: Postwar Fiction by Vietnamese and American Writers
(Curbstone, 1995); Jerry Lembcke, The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and
the Legacy of Vietnam (New York University Press, 1998); Stewart O’Nan,
ed., The Vietnam Reader: The Definitive Collection of American Fiction
and Nonfiction on the War (Doubleday, 1998); Robert D. Schulzinger, A
Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975 (Oxford
University Press, 1997); Robert R. Tomes, Apocalypse Then: American
Intellectuals and the Vietnam War (New York University Press, 1998);
James E. Westheider, Fighting on Two Fronts: African Americans and the
Vietnamese War (New York University Press, 1997).
