Check Out GenderWatch at the MC Library

Gender Watch is a "full text database of...publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas"...[and offers] an important historical perspective on the evolution of the women's movement and the changes in gender roles."


Available from the Library Web page at www.montgomerycollege.edu/library

Did you know that Montgomery College Libraries provide 24/7 online access to an Education Journals database?

ProQuest Education Journals database gives users access to over 785 important educational publications, including more than 615 of the titles in full text. Offering complete information on hundreds of educational topics, this database provides complete text and images from journals such as Childhood Education, College Teaching, Harvard Educational Review, Journal of Athletic Training, and Educational Theory.

Image articles include all the charts, tables, diagrams, and other graphical elements often used to enhance the editorial value of articles that focus on education topics.

ProQuest Education Journals database covers not only the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education but also special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics.

Continue going back in time...this time with the Historical New York Times

ProQuest Historical Newspapers™-including the New York Times and Washington Post-offers full-text and full-image articles for articles dating back to the 1800's. As part of the ProQuest Historical Newspapers™ program, every issue of each title includes the complete paper-cover-to-cover, with full-page and article images in easily downloadable PDF format.

The Historical New York Times, provides content from 1851 to 2005 and includes over 20 million digitized pages.

Travel Back in Time...

The Proquest Historical Washington Post database provides access to digitized, full text articles for the Washington Post and the Times Herald from the years 1877 to 1990. Library users interested in history, genealogy, the arts and media, sociology, international politics, ethnic studies, business, culture, science, and technology will find this database a valuable and information rich resource to search. Users can target searches to specific article types, dates, and authors allowing them to retrieve the most useful content to meet their information needs. To explore this database go to Historical Washington Post

Today Show: Libraries Lend a Hand in Tough Times

This morning the Today Show ran a segment on the important role libraries play during the recession, using data and resources provided by the ALA and public libraries:

Libraries lend a hand in tough times
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/31237988#31237988

The ALA Public Information Office worked with the Today Show on this segment and has followed up to encourage NBC affiliates to take up the story locally.

Job-Seeking in U.S. Public Libraries
http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/ors/plftas/Issues%20brief-jobs.pdf
Using data from the Public Library Funding & Technology Access Study, the issues brief discusses the range of library resources available to job seekers and the challenges to maintaining these services. Additional briefing reports are at: http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/ors/plftas/Issues_Briefs.cfm. Get a free copy of the PDF by emailing Larra Clark at lclark@ala.org.

Advocating in a Tough Economy Toolkit
http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/advocacy/advocacyuniversity/toolkit/index.cfm
Get tips, tools and messages that work.

Also, we have set up a new section at the RV campus library for Career & Job Seeking Materials, located to the rear of the Reference Desk near the Current Topics section.

Looking for Unparalleled Online Access to Current U.S. Newspapers?

From coast to coast and from big-city headlines to local happenings, ProQuest National Newspapers captures it all. This collection provides full-text online access to many of the most respected and widely read national and regional newspapers in the U.S., such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post.

Got Questions? Try SIRS Researcher

Researcher is a general reference database containing thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues.

Articles and images are individually selected from more than 1,600 domestic and international magazines, journals, newspapers, and websites.

Special features include links to leading issues, dynamically updated news from national and international news services, and a map collection.

Click on the link to explore this database: SIRS Researcher

Need High-Tech Information? Computer Database can Help!

Are you looking for high-tech information? Check out the Computer Database, a fully searchable collection of over three million articles drawn from more than one thousand different periodicals. From the most seasoned techie to the general researcher, the Computer Database has loads of content to offer. Access the Computer Database by going to the MC Libraries’ A to Z List of databases link on the libraries home page.

Indexing for some periodicals goes back as early as 1980, and the database is updated daily. Full-text for more than 50 titles goes back to the 1980s, with a total of 435 titles available as full-text in the database—75 of which are peer-reviewed journals. About 90% of the titles covered are magazines or journals, nearly 200 of which are refereed or peer reviewed, with the remaining 10% of content coming from newsletters, newswires, and reports.

Just a sampling of topics covered in the Computer Database includes:

• Business and industry applications
• Computer graphics
• Consumer information
• Database management systems
• Hardware and software design, development, and reviews
• Peripherals
• Home computers
• New products
• Performance evaluations
• Programming languages
• Operating systems
• Phototypesetting
• Word processing

The database also includes descriptive and financial information for companies covered in the industry literature.