August 27, 2008 – 8:41 am
Welcome back LibLine readers!
Here at the HCC libraries, we’re excited about the upcoming semester! We’ll be bringing you lots of info here at LibLine to help you find the best information possible to help you succeed in all your classes this semester.
We’ll cover :
- How to get your library questions answered
- Getting your library barcode
- Finding books and articles to help you with your research
- How to cite those sources
And more!
Stay tuned - and thanks for reading!
Have anything in particular you’d like to see us cover this semester? Leave a note in the comments section below, and and we’ll make sure to cover it!
As the semester moves on, a lot of you are asking about citing your sources to make sure you don’t plagiarize accidentally. Here’s a little more on the topic.
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Information in libraries and in library databases has been selected by information professionals. This means that books you find in the library or articles you find in the library databases are likely to be reliable sources of information.
Information available on the World Wide Web, however, does not go through this careful selection process. Anyone can publish on The Web. Imagine using a website chock full of talk of alien abductions for an art history paper! Think it can’t happen to you? Read on!
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Google and Yahoo are convenient, but they won’t give you access to as many high-quality newspaper, journal, and magazine articles as the HCC library databases will. Look up complete electronic versions of articles from the Houston Chronicle, New York Times, U.S. News and World Report, Time Magazine, The Journal of the American Medical Association, and thousands of other publications that you would normally have to subscribe to in order to read! Often times you’ll be able to view both current articles and articles dating back several years.
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Aloha, and thanks for tuning in!
HCC librarians are proud to announce that we have expanded our “Ask a Librarian” service to give you more ways - and more times! - to reach us. You can ask us questions via:
- Instant Messenger (we’re hccslibrarian at hotmail, AIM, GoogleTalk and Yahoo!)
- Live Chat
- Email
- Phone
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Welcome back LibLine readers!
We’re excited about the summer semesters! We’ll be bringing you lots of info here at LibLine to help you find the best information possible to help you succeed in all your classes this semester.
We’ll cover :
- How to get your library questions answered
- Getting your library login and barcode
- Finding books and articles to help you with your research
- How to cite those sources
And more!
Stay tuned - and thanks for reading!
Have anything in particular you’d like to see us cover this semester? Leave a note in the comments section below, and and we’ll make sure to cover it!
Looking for some summer reading? In between the paperback mysteries and romance novels you might take to the beach, don’t forget that Houston Community College has chosen its 2008 Common Book:
Generation Debt: How Our Future Was Sold Out for Student Loans, Bad Jobs, No Benefits, and Tax Cuts for Rich Geezers - And How to Fight Back by Anya Kamenetz (Riverhead Books, 2006)
This book will be featured in an in-person discussion on Thursday, October 23, 2008 at HCC’s West Loop campus, as well as online discussions. Yes, we know October seems like ages away, but it will be here before you know it!
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As the semester wraps up, a lot of you are asking about citing your sources to make sure you don’t plagiarize accidentally. Here’s a little more on the topic.
Read More »
Information in libraries and in library databases has been selected by information professionals. This means that books you find in the library or articles you find in the library databases are likely to be reliable sources of information.
Information available on the World Wide Web, however, does not go through this careful selection process. Anyone can publish on The Web. Imagine using a website chock full of talk of alien abductions for an art history paper! Think it can’t happen to you? Read on!
Read More »
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