Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center trial over this weekend!!!

Hi MSCTC Students and Faculty,

This weekend, you have the opportunity to try a database that we are considering. The database is Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center by Gale/Cengage Learning. To go to this database, click here.

Please direct any comments you may have about the usefulness of this resource to Perry Werner.

For help using this resource, please contact your campus library.

Thanks~
Carrie

New Tools on the Blog!

Hi Everyone,

We've added two new things to the blog:

1) Access to the MSCTC library catalog via the MnPALS Plus search interface-just at the top of our right column
2) The MSCTC Library Follower area at the bottom of the right column-let others know you read the MSCTC Library World Blog.

If you want to bookmark/favorites/etc. the alternative library search screen, please use http://plus.mnpals.net/?library=CTC as the main address. For those of you who prefer to use the old catalog search interface, that is still available at http://msctc.mnpals.net/! As always, if you have any questions about searching with the catalog, contact your campus library-or use any of our Meebo widgets.

If you want to request a book via InterLibrary Loan (ILL), please use the old catalog search interface at http://msctc.mnpals.net/.

20 Best Websites To Download Free EBooks

From our Friends at the Librarians Internet Index:
20 Best Websites to Download Free E-books
August 2008 annotated list of websites where you can download books for free. Some sites listed focus on computer programming, Shakespeare, government texts, technology, and other subjects. Reader comments provide suggestions of additional sources. From a blog with tips for tech users, designers, and bloggers.
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/20-best-websites-to-download-free-e-books/

Bookshare.org Library Now Free to All U.S. Students with Qualifying Disabilities

Bookshare.org believes that people with print disabilities deserve the same ease of access to books and periodicals that people without disabilities enjoy. The Bookshare.org library provides print disabled people in the United States with legal access to over 40,000 books and 150 periodicals that are converted to Braille, large print or digital formats for text to speech audio. More about Bookshare.org
From ours friends at
LISNews Librarian And Information Science News

Moorhead Campus Library Information

Welcome back, students!

We hope you have had a good summer. To help you make studying plans for the upcoming semester, we have made a schedule of our hours for the next few weeks. To see it, please visit http://msctcmoorheadlibrarian.googlepages.com/msctcmoorheadlibraryhours. We are also still located in the E-hall right by the S(outh) 2 entrance.

Additionally:
-our campus library is also making fall IDs. (Yes, we now have the stickers for the Doyle's program in. For information on that program, please contact Student Government.)
-We will still be proctoring distance students, please email mhd-libproctor@minnesota.edu.

If you need anything else, please feel free to contact us.

Contact information:
-You can IM us-screenname msctcLibrarian (AOL & Yahoo)
-call us at 218/299-6530
-email mhd-libresource@minnesota.edu

See you next week!

Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2008

It's that time again...
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
2008 Results

Theirs was a New York love, a checkered taxi ride burning rubber, and like the city their passion was open 24/7, steam rising from their bodies like slick streets exhaling warm, moist, white breath through manhole covers stamped "Forged by DeLaney Bros., Piscataway, N.J."

Garrison Spik
Washington, D.C.

South Ossetian Separatism in Georgia

From our Friends at LII: May 2006 discussion that considers "the history of relations between the Georgians, Russians and Ossetians, the ethnic/cultural differences, the current interests/motivations of all sides, and the prospects for settling the dispute over the land," where "the South Ossetians of Georgia have been in conflict with the Georgian government since just before the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990's." An Inventory of Conflict & Environment (ICE) study from American University.
URL: http://www.american.edu/ted/ice/ossetia.htm

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

One of my favorite authors Alexander Solzhenitsyn,died Monday, August 3rd at age 89. He was the Nobel Prize-winning author whose books chronicled the horrors of the Soviet gulag system. Here are a few sites about author and his work.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

And from From Wikipedia