McQuade Library Updates

Wonder what happens at McQuade between semesters? Here’s a snapshot of our greatest hits this summer!

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Try a new online resource specifically aimed at faculty research needs: RefAware.

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The trials are now over (APRIL 30)
Take a look at our newest trial databases:
1. ProQuest UK Historical Newspapers
England: The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
Ireland: The Historical Irish Times (1859-2007) offers full page and article images with searchable full text [...]

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Next time you look something up in the catalog, scroll down to the bottom of the screen–you may see a list of similar books and some tags. They’re coming from social cataloging system LibraryThing. Go here to see it in action.

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Please join us today at 3:30pm in the Perkins Periodical Room on the 2nd floor of the library for the 6th annual Tolle Lege reception honoring our Merrimack authors.
Speakers will include Bridget Rawding, Interim Director of the McQuade Library and Michael Bell, Vice President for Academic Affairs/Provost as well as the following of this year’s [...]

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Our newest database is a bit different–instead of journal articles and scholarly references, it contains photos, graphics, and sound clips from the Associated Press, all available for academic use in your paper or presentation.
So if you need a graph of foreclosures across the US,  a photo of Hilary Clinton, or a picture of an iPod, [...]

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Euromonitor GMID Passport Reference
This database includes country profiles & briefings, future demographic reports, consumer lifestyles reports and international consumer statistics. Useful to students of economics, sociology and political science as well as international business. You must be a current Merrimack student or member of the staff or faculty to use this resource.

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TRIAL REACTIVATED THROUGH FRIDAY NOV 7
The database vendor has agreed to extend our access to Passport through the end of the week to help those students who may need to doublecheck sources for citations.
McQuade Library has secured a trial of Euromonitor’s Passport GMID. Passport GMID is an award-winning online business information resource providing intelligence [...]

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You’ve searched McQuade Library’s online catalog and you’ve found a book you’re interested in reading. Instead of printing out the record, or writing down on scrap paper all the information you need, you can now text this information to your cell phone or BlackBerry!
Here’s how to do it:

Click on the “Send via Text Message” button [...]

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Use this database to search almost 300 electronic reference sources, and continue your research with links into our McQuade library catalog, our journal holdings, and our article databases. Check out the Concept Map for another way to see connections between topics.

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