Link to "Selected Internet Resources for Nurses and Nursing Students"

Welcome to the Distance Learning Library Services blog Nursing 605 students!

Here is a link to the Selected Internet Resources for Nurses and Nursing Students post.

I hope you enjoy our blog! Please let me know if you have any questions.

Want to Get Some Work Done on Memorial Day?

You can with the university Libraries!

Bracken Library will open at noon on Memorial Day! You can also rely on our regular Ask a Librarian services to handle your research and information needs as a reference librarian will be on duty.

For more information on our summer and holiday hours, see the Hours & Calendars page.

Online Learning in the News: Podcasting

A few links related to online learning and podcasting:

Podcast Lectures for Uni Students - A lecturer at West Yorkshire University has abandoned traditional lectures in favor of podcasts.

AU Washington Collge of Law Podcasting Success - Their 200+ episodes have been downloaded almost 65,000 times.

New Free Podcasting Application - A free PHP script that lets users upload media files via a web form and automatically create an RSS 2.0 podcast feed.

Podcast Alley - A Podcast directory that includes an online forum, podcast software and other podcasting information.

Current Database Trials

The following is a list of our current database trials:

• ArchiveGrid (Available through 5/31/2006)
• Descriptions of archival records held by libraries all around the United States. Items include historical documents, personal papers, and family histories.

• Associations Unlimited (Available through 6/17/2006)
  
• Associations Unlimited is the online version of Encyclopedia of Associations and is a directory of international, U.S. national, and local associations and non-profit agencies. Entries typically include the address, phone number, budget, number of members, narrative sections and other detailed information.

• Health and Wellness Resource Center (Available through 5/26/2006)
• Medical, statistical, health, and wellness information from reference books as well as full-text magazines, journals, websites, and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources.

• Historical Statistics of the U.S. (available through 6/2/2006)
• A package of web-accessible statistics relating to U.S. history and demography. Same content as the print and CD-ROM versions available in Bracken Library 1West.

• Oxford African American Studies Center (Available through 6/15/2006)
• Online reference books on African American Studies published by Oxford University Press. Also includes biographies, timelines, images, primary source documents, maps, selected websites, charts and tables.

Let me know if you think any of these would be useful to you. Also, be sure to let me know if you would like us to arrange a trial subscription for a particular database in your field.

Database of the Week

I will be spotlighting a new library database every Monday!

This week's database is the New York Times historical newspapers. The New York Times database allows you to search the complete text of the New York Times from 1851-2003 and retrieve PDF images of original articles, including photographs and drawings, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, and advertisements. Supplements, including the Magazine and the Book Review, are also included.

The content in this database will always be two years behind the present. For current New York Times articles, see LexisNexis Academic News (text only from 1980 to present).

Online Learning in the News

A few links to some news articles related to distance learning...

• Homework Help, From a World Away - Online students find cheap overseas tutors

• Managing Intellectual Property for Distance Learning - The University System of Georgia's formal protocol and assessment process for using intellectal property in online courses. For more on intellectual property and copyright law, visit the University Copyright Center.

• Online Degree Programs Take Off - As schools embrace online programs, students log on to expand their education as they work.

• Palm-Sized Digital Device Redefining the Classroom - It's the ipod's turn to redefine the way college students learn.

Create a Link from Your Blackboard Course to the Distance Learning Library Services Page!

1. Once in your Blackboard course, click on the Control Panel.





2. In the Control Panel, click on the "Other Web Sites" link in the "Content Areas" box.




3. Click on the "External Links" link located in the gray toolbar near the top of your screen.




4. Name the link and add the URL (http://www.bsu.edu/library/collections/distanceed/), review the availability options and click the Submit button.




5. Your students can now access the Distance Learning Library Services page by clicking the "Other Web Sites" link in the welcome screen of your course in Blackboard.

Summer Hours 2006

Over the summer, variations in the University Libraries hours correspond with the Summer Sessions and interim periods.

Basically, Bracken Library will remain open from 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. from Sunday through Thursday whenever classes are in session and will close at midnight during interim periods. Check the online calendar for weekend and holiday hours.

My personal hours will shift to 4 p.m. to 1 a.m. for the entire summer.

The Ball State University Libraries Are Cutting-Edge Cool!

A few of our newest technological feats...

• University Libraries' Toolbar - Download the University Libraries' toolbar for easy access to library resources and services in Internet Explorer and Firefox.

• RSS Feeds - RSS feeds allow you to view the headlines of news content from several sources in one location. The University Libraries' has several blogs (including this one) with RSS feeds. You can subscribe to these feeds and access them all at once through an online news aggregator, like Bloglines.

• MySpace - The University Libraries' has its very own MySpace profile! MySpace is a free online social community that allows its users to blog, join groups, send instant messages, promote events, share photos and much more. If you have a MySpace page, be sure to add us to your friends list!