Library Survey Prize Winners!

Posted 5/2/13

Thanks to everyone who took the Library Survey!  Your responses will help us to improve Library Services!

• $25 Wal-Mart Gift Card - Chrispin Ogama

• $25 Bricktown Brewery Gift Card - Kelly Hogan

• $25 Staples Gift Card - Michael Little

• Dinner at McAlister's - Cara Alonzo, Monika Ringbloom

• Lunch at Chicago Deli - Paul Mikelonis, Julia Davidoff

If you have questions or need help, email librarian@stgregorys.edu or call us at 405-878-5111  

Take the Library Survey by April 29

Posted 4/17/13

Prizes will be awarded May 1st at 3pm live in the library (you do not need to be present to win). 

• $25 Wal-Mart Gift Card

• $25 Bricktown Brewery Gift Card

• $25 Staples Gift Card

• Dinner at McAlister's

• Lunch at Chicago Deli

If you have questions or need help, email librarian@stgregorys.edu or call us at 405-878-5111  

Book Cover Art Contes Winner!

Posted 3/18/13

Hello and Welcome Back!   It’s an exciting new day at St. Gregory’s University, and made even more so by the announcement of the library’s first Book Cover Art Contest winner!. 

We had some wonderful, detailed entries this semester and I want to let everyone who entered know that the library staff received many compliments on behalf of the artists’ work.  The contest ballots were removed from the voting bag, and tallied.  It was a very, very close competition between all the contestants, but I am happy to report that the winner of the James J. Kelly Book Cover Art Contest is:      

 Jeremiah ‘Pud’ Ross!

Thank you to everyone for entering.  Mr. Ross’ work will be exhibited in the center of the library during the Spring and Summer semesters.  Please come see us (and our winning entry) soon!

For more information, e-mail Elizabeth Lipes  elipes@stgregorys.edu

New LIRN database expand your scholarly article search!

Posted 3/18/13

The Library has expanded its article databases to include the LIRN suite of resources.  LIRN includes access to:

• Infotrack - Business, computer science, criminal justice, general academic, health and wellness, law, literature, newsletters, newspapers, opposing viewpoints, and reference with student resource center, Gale Virtual Reference Library and the InfoTrac OneFile.

• Ebrary - Selected periodicals, reference books, maps, pictures, and newspapers from around the world, along with transcripts of news and public affairs broadcasts.

• CREDOreference - a general reference solution for learners and librarians. Its full-text, aggregated content covers every major subject from the world's best publishers of reference.

• Pubmed - 21 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

• And many more!!

Please try out this amazing collection and let us know what you think!  If you access this database from off campus you will need to use your off-campus login.

If you have any questions, or problems accessing the database please email us. librarian@stgregregorys.edu
 

New eBook database with over 100,000 titles!

Posted 1/30/13

The Library has had eBooks available for several years, but we are doing a trial of a new database with over 100,000 full-text eBooks available to you in 24 subject areas. The database may be accessed from the Library’s web page or by clicking here: eBook Academic Collection

Please try out this amazing collection and let us know what you think!  If you access this database from off campus you will need to use your off-campus login.

**You can also download books to your mobile Device!**
Just follow these instructions

Learn more about how to use eBook Academic Collection on the library's "How To" page.

If you have any questions, or problems accessing the database please email us. librarian@stgregregorys.edu
 

Book Cover Art Contest

Posted 1/23/13

Beginning from now until February 18, 2013, students can come to the SGU library (2nd floor of BH) and take an item from our collection of extraneous book covers up at the front desk. From that material, he or she can create a piece of artwork (mixed media collage, pencils, oils, watercolors, etc.) featuring some aspect of the book cover chosen and the artists’ own perceptions of the James J. Kelly Library. The pieces are due by February 18, 2013, and will be hung up in the library for students to vote upon. 

The winner will be announced March 18. The winning work will hang in the library for the rest of the Spring semester, and during Summer semester.

This is a great opportunity to show off the talents of the students at St. Gregory’s.  If you are interested, come into the library to pick up a book cover and sign up for the contest. The theme is perception, and there are tons of excellent seats to settle in and sketch some ideas—as well as excellent light in the periodical section!

For more information, e-mail Elizabeth Lipes
elipes@stgregorys.edu

Tutorials for Online Resources

Tutorials for a number of online resources have been added to the library's "How To" page.  New tutorials include:
 

·         ATLA Tutorial - An overview of ATLA emphasizing the use of the hierarchical scripture authority available in the ATLA Religion Database from St. Gregory's University Library.

·         ProQuest Tutorial - In three minutes you will be able to find scientific articles and information using the ProQuest Science Journals database at St. Gregory's University Library.

·         How to use JSTOR - A tutorial covering the basics of the online database JSTOR at St. Gregory's University Library.

·         LexisNexis Easy Search - A brief, three minute overview of the LexisNexis database.  Includes accessing the database and use of "easy search".

·         LexisNexis News Search - A short tutorial about searching for news articles and news sources in LexisNexis.  Includes searching national sources (such as the New York Times) and local state papers (The Oklahoman, Tulsa World, etc.).

·         LexisNexis Case and Legal Search - A three minute tutorial about how to search LexisNexis Academic for court cases and legal sources.

·         LexisNexis Company Search - Learn to find and compare company information in little more than two minutes with this tutorial.

These user guides provide a basic explanation of how to utilize several reliable information resources.  Go to our "How To" page for more online tutorials.  You can also visit the library's YouTube page to watch any of the tutorials listed above.
 

Books for Traditions and Conversation (TC) Available in the Library

Several of the titles on the reading list for Traditions and Conversations (TC) courses are available in the St. Gregory's University Library.  The library staff has created a reserve collection of several TC titles and would like to announce that the collection is available for student use. 

The collection is located at the circulation desk.  Because of the overwhelming demand for these titles, books can only be checked out for two hours at a time and must be used in the library.  Some audio book titles are also available

Titles for TC that are in the collection are as follows:

• Antigone by Sophocles

• The Communist Manifesto by Carl Marx

• Complete tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

• Divine comedy : The inferno

• Epic of Gilgamesh

• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

• Grimms' Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm

• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

• Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin

• The Odyssey by Homer

• Othello by William Shakespeare

• The Republic by Plato

View Library Survey Results and Response

Posted 06/04/12

The library survey was administered through Survey Monkey and was distributed online through email and a link on the library’s homepage. Data was collected from April 17 through April 26, 2012. 127 individuals took the survey: 34 CAS students; 38 CWA students; 25 Staff; 13 Adjuncts; and 17 Faculty.

View the survey results, summary and library response below.

• Complete Survey Results

• Survey Summary

• Library Response to Survey Results

Tutorials for Online Resources

Posted 03/15/12

Tutorials for a number of online resources have been added to the library's "How To" page.  These user guides provide a basic explanation of how to utilize several reliable information resources.  Go to our "How To" page for complete information.

On-Campus Wireless Access

Due to restrictions placed on the SGU Guest wireless network, computers using it cannot connect to the library server. As a result, students cannot access library resources from their laptops if they are using the SGU Guest wireless network.

To access library resources wirelessly, students must take their laptops to the Help Desk so St. Gregory’s technicians can put them on the secure wireless network. If students do not wish to register their laptops, they will need to connect their laptops directly to the internet through the use of an Ethernet cable in order to access library resources.

This issue only affects students trying to connect to library resources while on the SGU Guest wireless network. If you have questions or are experiencing any other problems accessing library resources, please email us at librarian@stgregorys.edu or call 405-878-5111.

New Databases

The library has added a number of new electronic resources:

• ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials provides indexing of  journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion. 

• JSTOR provides access to leading academic journals and other scholarly material on a variety of topics, including history, political science, sociology, biology, art, literature, and health policy.

• LexisNexis Academic provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, medical, and reference information sources, most of them available in full text. 

• MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations on subjects such as literature, literary theory & criticism, and dramatic arts.

• ProQuest Science Journals covers hundreds of topics relating to both the applied and general sciences

Go to our Databases & Electronic Resources page for more details and to view a complete list of library databases.

Database Trials

Trial versions of the following databases are being considered for purchase by the James J. Kelly Library. Please explore these databases while they are available, and contact the library if you have any suggestions or comments.

ATLA Catholic Periodical and Literature Index (Trial ends December 27, 2011)

Provides indexing of periodicals, essay collections, church documents, papal documents and electronic resources expressly addressing the practice and intellectual tradition of Roman Catholicism.

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials (Trial ends December 27, 2011)

Provides indexing of  journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion.  Also provides full text access for more than 285,300 electronic articles and book reviews from 150 journals selected by leading religion scholars in the United States.

MLA International Bibliography (Trial ends December 27, 2011)

Offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations on subjects such as literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, historical aspects of printing and publishing, rhetoric and composition, and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature.

View all Databases & Electronic Resources >>

New Students take on "Project Benedictine" challenge

Students had a chance to get creative in the library during new student orientation when they were challenged to build a three-dimensional model of Benedictine Hall.

See pictures >>  

New Off-Campus Logins

SGU students, faculty and staff will now be able to gain remote access to all electronic resources by logging in to the library's proxy server.  For more information, see our About Off-Campus Access, Frequently Asked Questions, and Troubleshooting pages.

New Computer Basics Tutorials

Learning Express Library provides interactive tutorial courses on computer & internet basics. These tutorials use non-technical language, are straightforward and self-paced. To access the tutorials, click the Learning Express Library on the library's Databases & Electronic Resources page and register.  

Comments or Suggestions?

If you have any comments or suggestions about the James J. Kelly Library, please email us or submit a comment form.