Check out a Book?

Crowder College students must have a student identification card to check materials out at the Circulation Desk in the Bill and Margot Lee Library. Since Lee Library shares an online catalog with other Missouri academic libraries, you may go to other member libraries and use your CC identification card to request circulating materials. For example, CC students at the Webb City campus may go to the MSSU, Joplin library or students at the Nevada campus may go to the Cottey College library and check materials out using their CC student ID card.

Loan Periods

Length of the checkout period will vary depending on the types of resources and the institution. At CC, the normal checkout period is three weeks for circulating books, three days for videocassettes, and seven days for back issues of periodicals. All other materials, including reference books, special collections, and current issues of periodicals must be used in the library. Circulating items may be renewed online by simply creating a PIN account or by contacting the circulation desk. Check your due dates on borrowed materials and return library materials promptly. Fines accrue at five cents per day per item.

To monitor your own library account to view and renew books online, go to the SWAN library catalog home page and click on “View your library account”. Fill in the appropriate information and submit to create the PIN for your records.

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Find a Book?

1. Search path: www.crowder.edu/library/library.html > SWAN library catalog

2. Search Crowder College (CC books only), SWAN library collections (nine library holdings in the cluster), OR MOBIUS (62+ Missouri library catalogs) union catalog.

3. Materials requested via SWAN or MOBIUS are generally delivered within three days to the pickup library of your choice. For example, CC Webb City students may request pick up at the MSSU library in Joplin.

4. Search the online catalog using various options, such as, author, title, subject, keyword, call number, plus others.

5. Electronic books (ebooks) can be searched via the netLibrary database or the SWAN library catalog. Creating a free account from a campus networked computer allows you to access any ebook from any computer with Internet access. NetLibrary can be accessed under “research databases” on the library web page or by going directly to www.netlibrary.com.

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Find an Article?

The Bill and Margot Lee Library provides research databases that allow students to search for articles on various topics. Some of the databases provide full-text articles, just as they appeared in print, while others provide only an abstract (summary) and citation. A research database is a proprietary database that allows access to the periodicals online. It is NOT the Internet.

1. Search path: www.crowder.edu/library/research_databases.shtml Research databases.

2. Scroll down to view the list of available databases. EBSCOhost is a good database to access periodical articles covering a large range of subjects with many full-text articles. NewsBank allows you to access Missouri newspapers and regional newspapers. Grolier Online provides access to encyclopedias and world newspapers. NetLibrary provides direct access to ebooks in our collection. ProQuest provides access to the New York Times newspapers from 1851 to the current date. ABC-CLIO is a good location for citations to history articles. Merriam-Webster provides an online dictionary. FirstSearch databases provide access to WorldCat. CountryWatch provides comprehensive information on 192 countries of the world, plus a map gallery.

3. Click on EBSCOhost > EBSCO databases. EBSCO provides a list of available
databases. Academic Search Premier is the largest database with many journals and full-text articles. Masterfile Premier is also a good starting point. Do not hesitate to explore the databases to find information on your chosen topic.

4. The EBSCO databases allow you to limit your searches to full-text articles, Crowder College holdings, by publication title and type, and other limiters. Search your topic first before using limiters such as the full-text, etc.

5. There are many articles that are not full-text in the databases and Lee Library does not subscribe to the source. To request the article, print or email the citation to the librarian (mlargent@crowder.edu). A copy of the article will be obtained for you via interlibrary loan services. It takes about two weeks to obtain the article.

6. Several databases may be searched simultaneously by simply checking the box by the name of the database and clicking on continue.

7. Type the search topic in the “find” box. Click “Search”. The next screen will list articles. If the phrase “HTML” or “PDF”, or Linked Full Text appears in the article citation, simply click on one of those phrases and the full-text article will appear.

8. You may choose to read, print, or email the article to your personal email account.

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Cite Resources?

Citation guides:

http://www.ifla.org/I/training/citation/citing.htm
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Citations.html
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html

Using MLA format:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html
http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citmla.htm

Using APA format:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_apa.html
http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citapa.htm

Citation Generators: will build your citation based on source information and citation style (APA or MLA). Sites may be free or pay a fee for the service. It is the student’s responsibility to verify the style according the proper style manual available in the library or online.

http://www.stylewizard.com
http://www.noodletools.com
http://www.easybib.com
http://citationmachine.net

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