CARL Book Beacon: December 2011

Friday, December 30, 2011

Popular New Year's Resolutions

These New Year's resolutions are popular year after year. Find resources to help you achieve your goals.

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

CARL Website outage

Currently we are experiencing a web page outage. If you need access to our databases, see the following links. We apologize for the inconvience.

Search Summon using this URL
http://carl.summon.serialssolutions.com/

CARL databases through the E-Journal Portal
http://fw8pk7vf4q.search.serialssolutions.com/

CARL's catalog
http://comarms.ipac.dynixasp.com/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=carlcgsc&reloadxsl=true#focus

CARL's Digital Library
http://cgsc.cdmhost.com/cdm4/search.php

Full Text Electronic Journal List

fw8pk7vf4q.search.serialssolutions.com

CARL's Alternate web address
http://www.cgsc.edu/cac2/CGSC/CARL/

Friday, December 23, 2011

CARL Website outage

Currently we are experiencing a web page outage. If you need access to our databases, see the following links. We apologize for the inconvience.

CARL databases through the E-Journal Portal

http://fw8pk7vf4q.search.serialssolutions.com/

CARL's catalog

http://comarms.ipac.dynixasp.com/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=carlcgsc&reloadxsl=true#focus

CARL's Digital Library

http://cgsc.cdmhost.com/cdm4/search.php

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

New Virtual Reference Center from Gale

With Virtual Reference Center researchers can access more than 5,000 (and growing) eBooks in virtually any subject, including health, business, careers, history, literature, biography, science and many more. User's can navigate a list of subjects and titles from the homepage; view titles without performing a search; export citations (EndNote, ProCite, Reference Manager) as well as generate (APA, MLA, tagged format); bookmark and return to virtually any spot in the research via a persistent URL; translate content into more
than 11 languages such as Spanish, French and Portuguese; and utilize the ReadSpeaker technology (text-to-speech) which allows text to be read aloud to users and downloaded in MP3 format.

So if your having trouble finding eBooks and looking for starting information why not try the GALE Virtual Reference Center.

You can also find a link to the Virtual Reference Center on our Find Articles the Articles - Galegroup option on our webpage.

Monday, December 5, 2011

Kansas EZ Library replaces Overdrive ebook content

Kansas EZ Library is the new name for Kansas’ econtent, which will include audiobooks and ebooks. This service will replace the current Overdrive e-book and audio book the Kansas State Library currently provides.

Here is the link to the new Kansas EZ Library. http://www.kslib.info/digitalbooks

The current subscription to Overdrive through Kansas State Library will end today Dec 5th, 2011. If you have an AKO account you can still have access to Overdrive through the army library site.

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