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Student Response System–’Clickers’

July 5th, 2008 by librarynews

A turning Technologies representative will be on campus July 9 at 9 am – LTC 219.  If you can make time, please join us!

This student response system is designed to help engage the computer generation.  It can be used for everything from taking attendance, checking if students understood the reading, verifying if students understood the main concepts, giving you a sense of students’ base knowledge, etc.  The two Semester Research project managed by the Reed Group, LLC in partnership with Thomson Learning, Turning Technologies and the University of Illinois found that 87% of students were more likely to attend class and 72% more students were likely to participate in class.

Trials!

July 1st, 2008 by librarynews

2 New Trials:
CQ Global Researcher and IBISWorld

Access these new trials directly from our trial databases page.

CQ Global Researcher: Modeled after the award-winning CQ Researcher, CQ Global Researcher provides students with definitive, in-depth coverage of global affairs from a number of international viewpoints. Available exclusively online, CQ Global Researcher offers focused, readable, single-topic reports on vital world issues.  During this trial CQ Global reports are available through our CQ Researcher platform, check the right hand sidebar.

IBISWorld: “…provides independent, accurate, comprehensive, and up to date research on over 700 industries, including statistics, analysis and forecasts. We also have reports on  8000 companies, as well as Risk Rating Reports on every industry.”

June 23, Monday

June 19th, 2008 by librarynews

On Monday, June 23 the library will open at noon, not 9.  Due to a power outage, we will be opening later.

New library hours

June 11th, 2008 by librarynews

Beginning July 7, the library will have new hours:

Monday-Thursday: 9-6

Friday: 9-5

Saturday & Sunday: Closed

New library toolbar

June 9th, 2008 by librarynews

Instead of having to go back and forth on the Virtual Library page, you can install a toolbar in your web browser. This allows you to search straight from your home page. Right now it works with IE and Firefox (both pc and Mac versions).

http://concordiacspedu.ourtoolbar.com/