Chances are, if you’ve used a library database, you’ve used one of the EBSCO databases. Some of the databases provided by the vendor EBSCO are available to Indiana residents through Inspire, and Ohio residents through OhioLink. At IU East, a third of our full-text journals are available through the EBSCO interface. In 2010, IU East… Read more »
Matt Dilworth
What We Aim to Accomplish
Probably, at some point in your educational career, you’ve thought about what you’re working towards. A career? Fame and fortune? Stability? Goals are good. They help us accomplish what we want and need to accomplish. The Library is committed to the goals IU East has established through the campus Learning Objectives. It makes sense –… Read more »
Streamlined Reference
If you’ve visited the library recently, you know we’re always fine-tuning things here. Our most recent change involves the reference books. These used to be split up into two sections – reference and biography books, in two different places. We’ve combined them into one easy-to-use collection. Both types of books now make up the first… Read more »
Disappearing Statistics: Why it should matter to you and what you can do about it
Some of you who have come to the library needing statistics for your research may have seen me reach for a book called Statistical Abstract of the United States. The Census Bureau, which has published it annually since 1878, has announced that it will discontinue producing it. It is, in the Census Bureau’s words, a… Read more »
Presidents’ Day
Today is Presidents’ Day, but just like on Martin Luther King Day, not many of us are going to celebrate by reading a biography of George Washington. This day has come to represent ideals far more than any one person’s life. The idea of liberty, of our national character, is more the spirit of this… Read more »
Say what?
On Saturday, February 12, numerous students from regional counties competed and presented speeches in 14 different categories at an Indiana High School Forensic tournament. The Library was a venue for Radio and Extemporaneous events and we enjoyed having these students and observing all the academic preparation that is involved. The photo featured in this blog… Read more »
E-Books are “real books” – really!
Don’t be fooled by the format – e-books are ‘real’ books in every sense that matters, and can make your course assignments easier and better! Practically everyone who has used the Internet has had some experience with e-books. You might not own a Kindle or an iPad but likely have read something interesting through GoogleBooks… Read more »
MLKJ Day
Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day! For many of us, it’s a day off, and easy to lose the significance of this holiday. Much like how on President’s Day and Columbus Day we don’t honor George Washington or Christopher Columbus personally so much as the main virtue their life exemplified – liberty and discovery, respectively… Read more »
Weather Resources
Has the bad weather got you down? Well, your library might not be able to make it any warmer, but we have plenty of resources to help you understand it! Among our encyclopedic databases, AccessScience has some good articles on weather and weather prediction. Science Resource Center has similar articles on weather mapping and forecasting,… Read more »
Tin Eye and Image Searching
When I was asked what my favorite recent website was for the last blog, I immediately thought of Tin Eye (http://www.tineye.com), a reverse photo lookup site, where you upload or link to a picture and it finds matches or near matches, regardless of whether they’ve been altered, cropped, or resized. If you’ll indulge me, I’d… Read more »