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10th Floor
Houston Cole Library
Jacksonville State University
700 Pelham Rd N
Jacksonville, AL 36265
256-782-5250
256-782-5872
hwang@jsu.edu

Subjects: Agriculture, Applied Science, Design, Engineering, Family & Consumer Sciences, Law, Library Science, Military Science, Technology

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Welcome

Welcome to the Houston Cole Library Guide page! The Library Science page gives you links to key resources to help you start searching for information.

Key Resources

EBSCOhost
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A collection of databases covering various subject areas and directed at various age groups. Includes full text of newspapers and encyclopedias, ebooks and various images, pamphlets, and brochures.
EBSCOhost databases provided by the AVL
EBSCOhost's Education Databases
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A collection of EBSCOhost databases covering education areas. See list of available databases in this group.
EBSCOhost databases some of which provided by the AVL. Databases included in this group are Academic Search Premier, ERIC, Professional Development Collection, PsychINFO, PsycARTICLES, and Education Full Text.
Gale Databases
Journal articles in all subject areas. This is a listing of all of the Gale databases to which the Houston Cole Library subscribes or has access.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
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Indexes more than 600 library and information science periodicals and related research sources. Contains indexing beginning in 2000 and links to articles when available.
An EBSCOhost database
Library Literature & Information Science Full Text
Indexes articles and book reviews in more than 234 key library and information science periodicals. Indexing begins in 1984, full text in 1997.
An EBSCOhost database
ProQuest Databases
Electronic databases in all subjects.

Finding ebooks and online videos:

Research Tutorials

Library Tutorials 1: Starting Your Research
How to start your research from the library homepage.
Library Tutorials 2 --- Research Essentials: Effective Search Techniques
Boolean, keyword combinations, truncation, search a database, refining results, using Google more effectively, Quiz
Library Tutorial 3 --- Research Essentials: Finding the Right Sources
Selecting relevant sources, find and save a source, reading academic articles, analyzing and summarizing articles, take notes on an article, Quiz

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Mon-Thurs: 9 am - 10:30 pm
Fri: 9 am - 4 pm
Sat: 9 am - 4:30 pm
Sun: 3 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Library Catalog Basic Search

Find E-Journal (Serials Solutions)

Library Research Guide by Course

Information Search Made Easy: School library media & Library Science About the discipline, list of journals/magazines, Bibliographies/reading list, open access databases
LM 512 Children and Young Adult Literature Course guide to library resources for LM 512
LM 513 Management of Media Centers Course guide to library resources for LM 513.
LM 530 Librarian as Instructional Partner Course guide to library resources for LM 530
LM 531 Trends, Issues, Innovation & Leadership in Libraries & Schools Library resources for LM 531
LM 532 Collection Management, Cataloging, and Reference Course guide to library resources for LM 532
LM 612 Advanced Materials for Children and Young Adult Course guide to library resources for LM 612
Using Alabama Virtual Library Step-by-step PPT on how to use Alabama Virtual Library.