Top Circulated and Purcashed Computer Books

The following are some of the most frequently checked out and purchased computer books for the past few months according to library journal. We don’t have them in print but we do have them in ebook format.

Check them out below.

Top 10 Library Services

Besides answering questions for you, here are 10 top library services we offer:

1. Research consultations. Yes we will actually help you do your research for any and all of your papers.
2. Scanning
3. Group Study Rooms
4. Projector
5. Library Mini Classes- come and learn something cool
6. Help with papers and citations
7. Tutorial Videos
8. Resources by subject and other helpful hints handouts
9. Interlibrary Loan- have any book from any library sent here.
10. Class presentations to help you write the best papers ever and be information literate and savvy.

Access World News

Learn how to use Newsbank and access thousands of newspaper articles.

Salem Health Encyclopedia

The Salem Health Encyclopedia is a great resource for finding information about common and not so common health problems and diseases. It is also available online for easy searching.

Have you used this database? What did you think of it?

The Six Pixels of Separation

Have you heard of the six degrees of separation? The concept that you are only six degrees away from meeting anyone who you want to meet or who you need to meet in order to make your business or any other endeavor you have in life a success. Well, now that social networking is here, you can learn to use it to create an environment where you are only six pixels of separation away from anyone you want to meet.

In this fascinating, helpful and highly interesting book, Mitch Joel who owns a social media marketing firm talks all about the various ways that any business or individual can use social networking sites to connect your business to everyone literally. He also talks about the up and coming trends with mobile marketing and how to best prepare your business to take advantage of this trend.

Take a few hours and read this book and you will not be sorry you did. Every business owner who is marketing with social media or really any business owner should digest this treasure of a book and discover how you can make your social networking a much more powerful tool for your business.

Do you have an iphone?

There are so many useful applications for all kinds of things on iphones available today that the library would like to know, Do you have an iphone?

Do you have an iphone?
(polls)

Library Mini-Classes

The library is offering mini-classes again this semester. Come and learn about Twitter, Facebook for business, Blogging for Business and Web Design. You can sign up on our website, http://library.ldsbc.edu under mini-classes or you can come and sign up in person. If you have questions or need more info please email abrown@ldsbc.edu

Facebook in the Classroom?

So you think facebook is only for fun and games? Well if you came to my facbeook for business mini-class that I taught this summer you learned that it is also being used for business. But what about facebook in the classroom? Could that really be? Well in fact, yes there are lots of ways to use facebook in the classroom.

I fact there are 100 of them to be exact.

Online College gives us this great list. I’m linking to it above and I have to say that many of them are quite feasible. So if you are thinking that facebook is just for play, maybe it’s time you thought otherwise?

Library Brochures

Have you picked up any of our library brochures? We have them available for you to take home, read and use to learn about all kinds of library databases and other library resources. You will find them near the display board on the 4th floor of the library, at the third floor reference desk and on the display shelves near the physical collection of books.

Examples of some of our brochures include:

Interior Design Resources
Medical and Health Resources
Business Resources
Ebsco Databases
How to Cite Your Sources
How to Use Google
Careers and Majors
Ebooks
Library Catalog
Research Library

and many more. If you can’t find the one you need or want, ask us. We can find one.

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