Entries Tagged as ‘Electronic Resources’

November 20, 2009

Search EBSCOhost journal databases from your mobile phone!

Milligan College Library patrons with Internet-capable smartphones (e.g., iPhone, BlackBerry, Palm) and wireless handheld devices (e.g., iPod touch) can now search our EBSCOhost online journal databases on the go!
Point your device web browser to http://m.ebscohost.com/. This will take you to EBSCO’s service selection page for Milligan College. (The following screenshots were taken from an Apple [...]

September 9, 2009

New and recently added electronic resources

The Library is very excited to announce the addition of several new and recently added electronic resources to support research for Milligan College students and faculty.

ACM Digital Library is a premier resource of citations, full text journals, conference proceedings, transactions and newletters covering all aspects of computing hardware and software, research, and the computer and [...]

July 17, 2009

Meet our new Librarian Assistant!

Please join us in welcoming Jack Weinbender, our new Librarian Assistant, who began work with us on June 15th.
Jack is a first-year student at Emmanuel School of Religion.  He recently graduated from Johnson Bible College in Knoxville with a B.A. in Biblical Studies and a minor in Audio & Radio Production.  Following his junior year [...]

July 10, 2009

What we did on your summer vacation, Part 1

“So, what do you, like, DO at the library all summer?” is one the most frequent questions students and faculty ask library staff as one school year ends and another begins.  I mean, it’s only reasonable to expect that library staff  play Scrabulous and Minesweeper in an empty library all summer while kindergartener-sized tumbleweeds roll [...]

April 7, 2008

New Look to JSTOR

JSTOR has unveiled a sleek new look on April 7, 2008! Most veteran JSTOR users will find that the basic and advance search screens retain many of the old features, while adding a few new twists.
Highlights of the new features:

In Advanced Searching, searchers can now specify that search terms be within a certain [...]

March 30, 2008

I didn’t know we had THAT in the Milligan Library…

As Milligan’s resident reference librarian, I am aware of some really great resources. Some of these are located physically in the library, some are available online through a subscription, and some are free out on the Internet. I hope to have occasional posts highlighting interesting resources that are often overlooked by students and [...]

February 11, 2008

Website Tweak Simplifies Search for Library Journal Holdings

The Library collection includes not only books, and non-print media (CDs, DVDs, etc.) but also journals and magazines. Journals and magazines are an important medium of written communication.

Popular magazines inform or entertain general audiences on a wide variety of topics and interests (e.g., current news, computers, or cats).
Professional journals and magazines report on news and [...]