A Note of Thanks:
Library Open House
A big thank you to everyone who dropped by during our Open House event on September 24th! We had a lot of fun, and loved seeing all the new faces.
If you couldn't make it, we're afraid the pizza is all gone, but we still have a few 2GB flash drives leftover! Drop by and ask for one and we'd be happy to oblige.
And if you signed up as a new subscriber to the newsletter, welcome!
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Featured new additions to our print collection:
- The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
- Dare to Lead by Brené Brown
- How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
- Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves and Our Society Thrive by Marc Brackett
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Books by Leah Price
- How to Be An Inclusive Leader by Jennifer Brown
- Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor by Steven Greenhouse
- Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation by John Freeman
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Featured Resource:
O'Reilly for Higher Education
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Formerly known as Safari Books Online, O'Reilly for Higher Education is an expanded digital platform, including a collection of over
40,000 e-book
titles, covering topics such as IT networking, project management, graphic design, business strategy, and more. The platform also provides access to more than 30,000 hours of video, interactive tutorials, and case studies.
How to access: Users must provide a valid academic e-mail address (ending in .edu) to access this database. Users may access from anywhere.
Want to download an e-book and read it offline?
Try the O'Reilly mobile app
! To use the app you must first login with your academic e-mail address
from this link
. After this initial login you may logon to the app with the same e-mail address and any password of your choosing.
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Some of the e-books available:
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This Month's Book Display:
Citing Your Sources
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Citing sources correctly is one of the most important aspects of academic writing. Failing to credit an article or book that's contributed to your research is plagiarism.
Citation may seem like a daunting task, but using a guide can make it much easier. Whether you need help with APA style, MLA, Chicago/Turabian, or additional styles, the library has tons of guides to put you on the right track!
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Free Google Chrome Extensions for Students
One of the features that makes Google Chrome such a popular browser is its vast library of add-ons and extensions. This includes tools that help students with research, writing, and perhaps most importantly, finding free stuff!
Below are a handful of Google Chrome extensions students (and others) will find very useful:
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Library Extension allows you to instantly see availability of books, e-books, music, and audiobooks from your public library as you browse. It works with hundreds of websites including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google Books, and Goodreads. Roanoke Public Libraries can be selected with this extension!
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Grammarly
helps to eliminate errors in your everyday writing on the internet. It will check your spelling, grammar, style and tone while using sites like Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, Google Docs, Wordpress and more.
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MyBib allows users to generate formatted bibliographies, citations, and works cited lists automated from any web page or online PDF. It can format in many different citation styles, including APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, AMA and more. Create projects to help keep your research and your citations organized.
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Google Dictionary allows users to double-click any word on a web page to view its definition in a small pop-up bubble. You can view the complete definition using the toolbar dictionary, and store a history of words you've looked up to reference them later.
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The
Google Scholar extension adds a browser button for easy access to Google Scholar from any web page. Google Scholar is a free web search engine that limits results to scholarly literature, like peer-reviewed and academic journals, books, theses, and more. The button will transfer information from the page you're on to Scholar, and can also format references to specific citation styles.
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Unpaywall is an extension that will automatically check to see if an article you're viewing on a website is Open Access. Open Access means it is content that is free and legal to read, download and share without restriction. It makes accessing free academic content easy and convenient. (This extension works
great in conjunction with Google Scholar)
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