Library

Check out a Book?

Crowder College students must have a student identification card to check materials out at the Circulation Desk in the Bill and Margot Lee Library. Since Lee Library shares an online catalog with other Missouri academic libraries, you may go to other member libraries and use your CC identification card to request circulating materials. For example, CC students at the Webb City campus may go to the MSSU, Joplin library or students at the Nevada campus may go to the Cottey College library and check materials out using their CC student ID card.

Loan Periods

Length of the checkout period will vary depending on the types of resources and the institution. At CC, the normal checkout period is three weeks for circulating books, three days for videocassettes, and seven days for back issues of periodicals. All other materials, including reference books, special collections, and current issues of periodicals must be used in the library. Circulating items may be renewed online by simply creating a PIN account or by contacting the circulation desk. Check your due dates on borrowed materials and return library materials promptly. Fines accrue at five cents per day per item.

To monitor your own library account to view and renew books online, go to the SWAN library catalog home page and click on “View your library account”. Fill in the appropriate information and submit to create the PIN to access your records.

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Find a Book?

1. Search path: www.crowder.edu/library/library.html > SWAN library catalog

2. Search Crowder Collegefor CC books only, SWAN library collections for the ten library holdings in the cluster, OR the MOBIUS union catalog for member libraries in the consortium.

3. Materials requested via SWAN or MOBIUS are generally delivered within three days to the pickup library of your choice. For example, CC Webb City students may request pick up at the MSSU library in Joplin.

4. Search the online catalog using various options, such as, author, title, subject, keyword, call number,plus other search options.

5. Electronic books (e-books) can be searched via the EBSCO database e-book collection or the SWAN library catalog.

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Find an Article?

The Bill and Margot Lee Library provide research databases that allow students to search for articles on various topics. Some of the databases provide full-text articles, while others provide only an abstract (summary) and citation. A research database is a proprietary database in that it is privately owned and password protected. Since we subscribe to these databases, students and staff have access to the periodicals online.  You will find your authorizations for home use under your Blackboard account.  A research database is NOT the Internet.

1. Search path for research databases:  www.crowder.edu/library/research_databases.shtml

2. View the list of available databases. EBSCOhost is a good database to access periodical articles covering a large range of subjects with many full-text articles. NewsBank allows you to access Missouri newspapers and regional newspapers. Grolier Online provides access to encyclopedias and world newspapers. ProQuest provides access to the New York Times newspapers from 1851 to the current date. Merriam-Webster provides an online dictionary. FirstSearch databases provide access to WorldCat. CountryWatch provides comprehensive information on 192 countries of the world, plus a map gallery. Gale Cengage provides access to the popular Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center.

3. Click on EBSCOhost > EBSCO databases. EBSCO provides a list of available
databases. Academic Search Complete is the largest database with many journals and full-text articles.

4. The EBSCO databases allow you to limit your searches to full-text articles, Crowder College holdings, by publication title and type, and other limiters. Search your topic first before using limiters such as the full-text, etc.

5. There are many articles that are not full-text in the databases and Lee Library may not subscribe to the source. To request the article, print or email the citation to circ@crowder.edu indicating your name and the purpose of the request. A copy of the article will be obtained for you via interlibrary loan services. It takes about 7-10 days to obtain the article.

6. Type the search topic in the “find” box. Click “Search”. The next screen will list articles. If the phrase “HTML” or “PDF” appears in the article citation, simply click on one of those phrases and the full-text article will appear.

7. You may choose to read, print, or email the article to your personal email account.

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Cite Resources?

Citation guides:

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Citations.html

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

http://lib.utsa.edu/Instruction/citeitright/index.html

Using MLA format: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html

Using APA format: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_apa.html

Citation Generators: will produce citations based on source information and citation style (APA or MLA). Sites may be free or pay a fee for the service. It is the student’s responsibility to verify the style according the proper style manual available in the library or online.  Lee Library subscribes to EasyBib – School edition to help improve information literacy by providing students with the tools to do research papers and create a works cited page.span>

http://www.stylewizard.com
http://www.noodletools.com
http://www.easybib.com (subscription to School Edition with enhanced functions)
http://citationmachine.net

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