September 2006 newsletter online

You can read the latest issue of the Library Insider at http://www.bsu.edu/library/virtualpress/libinsider/. The newsletter will keep you up-to-date on the latest news and events at the the Ball State University Libraries.

This month's issue included information about new library funding, additions to the music collection, the increased availability of full-text journals through the University Libraries' online databases, instructions on how to care for optical discs, and more. Read all the articles in the September 2006 issue online.

Resource to try: McClatchy-Tribune Collection

Ball State University users can access the McClatchy-Tribune Collection from the University Libraries' databases page: http://www.bsu.edu/ libraries/ electronicresources/ databases.asp. The database, formerly known as the Knight-Ridder Collection, includes newspaper articles published in the last 90 days. You will find over 100 newspapers from around the nation and published by McClatchy in the database; this includes the Chicago Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, Seattle Times, and others.

You can search the database for keywords or browse by publication. For example, this sample keyword search of the database will find articles on Sept. 11th remembrance activities. You can also browse publications by title and date; for example, this link takes you to all the articles from the July 4, 2006, issue of the Chicago Tribune.

Off-campus users will be prompted to enter their BSU username and password in order to access the database.

If you have questions or would like additional information on library resources, please contact Stacy. To find out more about the University Libraries' latest resources, check out the News & Events blog.

Nursing Blogs

Welcome Nursing 605 students. Take a look at one of the blogs listed below and make a short post (no more than a paragraph) to this blog (i.e. The Distance Learning Services Blog).

Comment on one of the following:

a.)Strength of blogs for professional communication
b.)Weakness of blogs
c.)Whether or not you feel blogs are useful and why

Alternatively, if you already regularly visit a blog, tell us the name of the blog and either
How it benefits you or what you like about the blog.

Nursing Blogs

Code Blog - tales of a nurse
Head-Nurse
About a nurse
Tales of an aspiring nightingale
The Nurse Practitioner's Place
Third Degree Nurse
University of Arizona College Nursing Blog

Labor Day hours

Bracken Library will open at noon on Monday, September 4, 2006.

For a complete listing of the University Libraries' hours, please see http://www.bsu.edu/library/article/0,,14625--,00.html.