Argosy University Chicago Library News

Find information fast with Credo Reference, a new online resource!

Credo Reference is now available in the Argosy Unviversity Online Library! Credo Reference provides the full text of 500+ titles from the world’s top reference publishers, including dictionaries, bilinguals, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range of subject-specific titles thoughtfully integrated & presented in an innovative, easy-to-use platform with the latest technology for finding & sharing information.

For a complete list of titles available in CREDO, see:

http://corp.credoreference.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=121&Itemid=68

Counseling and Therapy Videos now available ONLINE

A new collection of Counseling and Therapy Videos is now available in the Online Library!

Description:

Alexander Street Press Counseling and Therapy in Video -contains more than 400 hours of training videos, reenactments, and footage of actual therapy sessions conducted by renowned psychiatrists, psychologists, counselors, and social workers.

Counseling and Therapy in Video: Volume II - features more than 300 additional hours of topics such as family therapy, child therapy, geriatric therapy, play therapy, weight control and eating disorders, PTSD, sex therapy, culturally-sensitive therapy, and cognitive-behavioral therapy.

For more information about these collections, click here: http://alexanderstreet.com/products/ctiv.htm#content

To see a complete list of titles available in these collections:

 Volume I : http://alexanderstreet.com/products/bib/CTIV.bib.xls (Excel spreadsheet)

Volume II: http://ctv2.alexanderstreet.com/browse/video

Some features you might like:

• Every word in every video is keyword searchable. Enter a word and jump to the relevant section in the video.
• Make clips and playlists. Annotate and share them using permanent URLs. Use teaching and discussion guides to create lesson plans.
• Use 17 fields to find videos by subject, therapist, type of therapy, client details, and more. Speed through hours of video in seconds.

To access:

Go to the library portal page and click on Psychology (Under Browse by Field).  The video links are listed there. In May, the two collections will be merged by the vendor into one access URL.

Spring semester kick-off! Find out what's new in the library.

To kick off the start of the new semester, the library welcomes everyone to stop by Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday afternoon, January 10 - 12 for cookies and hot chocolate!

As some of you may know, over the break the library was reconfigured. Some of the changes you'll notice:

• Additional group study rooms have been added. Two of these rooms have been equipped with technology ideal for groups and individuals preparing for presentations, engaging in collaborative work, and viewing media
• Books related to education, business, research and writing have moved to the ALC.
• Copiers are now located in the old book drop location, next to the library entrance. Copy cards can be purchased at the circulation desk.
• The book drop is now located at the library entrance.
• Outdated and infrequently used books were removed from the collection. What remains are the most current, relevant, or most frequently circulated items.  In the coming months, additional e-books will be added to the online collection.  The library will also continue to purchase relevant print books as needed.
• Videos are now housed in a locked storage area and must be requested at the circulation desk.

Online Library "Quick Search"

Some major changes are happening online as well. The online library "Quick Search" is now powered by PRIMO, a discovery and delivery tool which enables users to search across many resources simultaneously, while providing a fast response time, high-quality relevance ranking of its resources, and an intuitive user interface. PRIMO went live on December 20th, but its full functionality has yet to be realized because of a technical issue with the conversion that is currently being addressed.  As PRIMO Quick Search is refined and perfected over the coming weeks, we feel that it will be a significant improvement over the previous Quick Search tool.

Another improvement you'll see in the online library is the addition of hundreds of non-embargoed full-text journals from publishers such as Taylor and Francis, Oxford, and others.

Fine Amnesty!

Additionally, the library is offering a "fine amnesty" for any books returned before Friday, January 14. This means all fines will be forgiven for any books returned before this date (with the exception of interlibrary loan books). If you have any items checked out which are still needed after January 14, please renew them by calling 312-777-7653 or e-mailing auchilibrary@argosy.edu, starting January 10.

If you have any questions about any of the changes, please feel free to e-mail Fay Kallista at fkallista@argosy.edu or call 312-777-7651.

Free books available in the library!

Students are invited to take home any books designated to be removed from the library on a first-come, first-served basis, starting Sunday, November 28, through Thursday, December 2.

A list of designated books was e-mailed to all students, and can be identified on the shelf by a blue or green sticker on the spine. Please bring any books you’d like take to the circulation desk, as each item needs to be checked by library staff before they can be removed from the library. Items must be picked up in person, and cannot be put on hold to be picked up later. If you have any questions, please feel free to call the library at 312-777-7653.

Great News!

Beginning July 1, 2010, the Argosy University Library will have access to a new Electronic Library core collection provided to Argosy from ProQuest, CQ Researcher, Britannica Online and Mergent. With nearly 25,000 journals and 450 million articles, tapping in through your library’s website means finding key information that can help with all your research needs from anywhere, at anytime—on or off campus.

The following database collections are part of the new research tools which will be available to any Argosy faculty and students 24/7:

ProQuest Central:   ProQuest Central is a multidisciplinary database which contains over 160 subjects including core subject areas such as:

Business and economics

• Health and medical
• News and world affairs
• Science
• Education
• Technology
• Humanities
• Social Sciences
• Psychology
• Literature
• Law
• Women's studies

Other ProQuest databases included in the core collection include

ProQuest Entrepreneurship; CultureGrams; SIRS Issues Researcher; SIRS Renaissance;  Criminal Justice Periodicals Index; Arts and Humanities Full-Text; ERIC Plus Text; Literature Online; elibrary; RefWorks; Dissertations and Theses; PsycARTICLES; PsycINFO.

 

The ProQuest core collection will be live on July 1, 2010 and is currently available for trial use at: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/trials/edmc.shtml

 

With this new resource opportunity, the Argosy University library will be changing its online collections currently available.  This change of vendor and information sources will create some differences in the availability of full text and services, including My EBSCOhost. 

IMPORTANT: If you are a MyEBSCOhost user, please click here for instructions on saving the items in your MyEBSCOhost account. 

Online Library is now available through the Argosy University Student Portal

A link to the Argosy University “Online Library” is now available through the student and faculty portal. This is another option for searching the Argosy University core library collection which is also available through the Argosy University Chicago Library website at: www.auchicagolib.org

The portal Online Library allows you to search the core library collections without having to login separately to each database. You can also search mutliple databases at once using the “QuickSeach”  feature.  If you need additional help with using the Online Library, the following guides are now available online:

• How to use QuickSeasrch:   http://www.auchicagolib.org/quicksearch.pdf
• Choosing Individual Databases: http://www.auchicagolib.org/auodata.pdf

For campus specific resources, such as PEP, Psychiatry Online, Lexis Nexis, Chicago A to Z Journals, EBSCO interlibrary loan links, as well as news and workshop information specific to the Chicago campus, please continue to use the Argosy University Chicago Library website @ www.auchicagolib.org.

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