Reference Workshops at the Downtown Los Angeles Campus Library
In response to student requests, the Library Staff at the Downtown Los Angeles campus are offering reference workshops to help students with their classroom, project, and dissertation needs.
The LA Library is now offering students the opportunity to sign up for Library Database and Resource Sessions. Each session will be 30 min and provides training on database and library resources to better utilize research tools. Each session can be customized to fit the individual’s need or a complete overview of TCSPP’s research tools.
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If you are interested, please contact: Oliver Cutshaw (ocutshaw@thechicagoschool.edu) or Kelsey Regan (kregan@thechicagoschool.edu) with the selected date or time listed below.
Library Database and Resource Sessions
Thursday March 24 Friday March 25 Saturday March 26
2:00pm 2:00pm 2:00pm
2:30pm 2:30pm 2:30pm
3:00pm 3:00pm 3:00pm
3:30pm 3:30pm 3:30pm
4:00pm 4:00pm 4:00pm
Thursday April 7 Friday April 8 Saturday April 9
2:00pm 2:00pm 2:00pm
2:30pm 2:30pm 2:30pm
3:00pm 3:00pm 3:00pm
3:30pm 3:30pm 3:30pm
4:00pm 4:00pm 4:00pm
Thursday April 21 Friday April 22 Saturday April 23
2:00pm 2:00pm 2:00pm
2:30pm 2:30pm 2:30pm
3:00pm 3:00pm 3:00pm
3:30pm 3:30pm 3:30pm
4:00pm 4:00pm 4:00pm
New Book List
A new Ebook list has been added to the finding guides page. It contains a number of subjects across several disciplines. The list was generated after compiling a list after searching each topic through the Chicago School's online library catalog. The intent of the list is to highlight the availability of online resources to our academic community so that these resources may be better utilized.
Subjects include: Management and Organizational Diversity for I/O. Autism and Bi-polar under Disorders. Child Development and Lifespan under Life Cycle. Criminal Psychology for Forensics. Family Violence and Play Therapy under MFT. And many more.
The Finding Guides page also provides information on how to use the online catalog for searching and additional information regarding the library resources.
Frontline Videos
Watch Frontline Videos Online
PBS has access to Frontline Videos covering many topics concerning Social Issues which may be of interest to students or faculty. Two of the videos, The Meth Epidemic and Inside the Teenage Brain, are titles the library currently owns and has available for checkout. Students and faculty with web access may view these videos from anywhere and do not require any password or subscription.
Dissertation Resources
Remember that all TCS students, faculty, and staff have access to full-text dissertations via the ProQuest Database. ProQuest can be accessed on our Library Web Page under Search our Databases section of Library Resources.
Cyberbullying resources on our E Brary database
Message from our E Brary vendor. Notes some interesting resources, ie. E books, on Cyberbulling.
Dear Customers, Partners and Friends:
According to the U.S. National Crime Prevention Council, 43% of teens have been the victims of cyber bullying in the past year.
To help parents, educators, and others better understand, prevent, and take action against this growing concern, ebrary is pleased to subsidize a collection of open access e-books on cyber bullying and enable other organizations to contribute materials as long as they have copyrights.
Available today at http://site.ebrary.com/lib/cyberbullying, ebrary’s Cyber Bullying Searchable Information Center includes such titles as Click, Click, Who’s Really There?: Protect Your Family from Online Predators, Pedophiles, Privacy Loss and More, by Koh (LHK Publishing, LLC, 2006); Bullying Prevention and Intervention: Realistic Strategies for Schools, by Susan Swearer (Guilford Press, 2009); and Keep Your Kids Safe on the Internet, by Simon Johnson (McGraw-Hill, 2004). It also includes a growing selection of documents uploaded by ebrary employees from authoritative sites including the Pew Internet & American Life Project, U.S. Department of Justice, and other agencies.
ebrary encourages organizations to upload their own relevant materials, right from their computers, with DASH! (Data Sharing, Fast). Interested organizations may email tish.wagner@ebrary.com for a complimentary DASH! account. Customers of Academic Complete, College Complete, Public Library Complete, and Government Complete can get started on their own DASH! collections by emailing dash-support@ebrary.com.
The Cyber Bullying Searchable Information Center is just one of a growing number of open access collections created by ebrary employees and customers with DASH! A listing of additional, freely available collections is provided at http://www.ebrary.com/corp/accessCollections.jsp. If you are an ebrary customer and would like to add any of these collections to your existing channel, please email site-update@ebrary.com.
We hope the Cyber Bullying Searchable Information Center proves to be a valuable resource for better understanding and addressing this important issue. We welcome your feedback at dash@ebrary.com.
Sincerely,
The ebrary Team
Downtown Library Hours
During the month of August the Downtown Library will be closed on the Weekend. We will be open Monday through Friday 9-5. When the Fall Session begins we will resume our Weekend Hours.
Dissertation Resources
APA to Create New Tests Database
APA has begun developing a new research database for tests and measures to be called PsycTESTS™. The database is expected to be ready in the second half of 2010.
PsycTESTS will serve as a repository for the full text of unpublished test and measures. The idea behind it is to reduce the need for researchers and students to recreate tests (and thus duplicate work already done) when they cannot find a test that fits with their research.
Here is a link to a fuller article on the new database: