You Oughta Be In Pictures!

Students, do you frequent our library? Would you like to be on TV? If so, then smile for your close up, because here comes your chance for a television debut!

The North Campus Library is looking for a few good library patrons to interview for pilot episodes of their upcoming MDC TV show. Regular library users are needed to answer questions and give their input on the air.

Interested? Just call the library reference desk at 305-237-1183 and ask for Assistant Library Director Valda Adeyiga for details.

See you on MDC TV!

March Library Display

Celebrate Women's History Month with some of the greatest female baseball players of all time. Created by librarian Beth Cloues, this walk through time proves that baseball is not just for the boys. "Women in Baseball" will educate and surprise you! The display will be available throughout March.

Library Hours: Monday -Thursday 7:45 – 10:00 p.m.
Friday 7:45 AM – 4:30 p.m.
Saturday 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

For more information, please call the library at 305-237-1142

Need Help Formatting That Research Paper?

The North Campus Library has free style guides that can help you format your papers and bibliographies.

These web sites may also be of help:

• The OWL at Purdue helps students throughout the writing process, from forming a thesis statement to the final finishing touches to the reference page. Click on "Research and Citation" for help with bibliographies.


• Research and Documentation Online by Diana Hacker is a comprehensive source for formatting and research needs. Sample papers are provided.


• The Long Island University C.W. Post Campus B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library offers color-coded style guides for the most commonly used bibliographic formats.


• Students just plug in their citation information; Landmark's Son of Citation Machine formats bibliographic entries in one easy click.

March is National Women's History Month

This year's theme for National Women's History Month is "Women's Art: Women's Vision." Celebrate Women's History at the North Campus Library by checking out some of these books:

Independent spirits :women painters of the American West, 1890-1945 /Patricia Trenton, editor. ND225 .I53 1995

Carr, O'Keeffe, Kahlo: places of their own /Sharyn Rohlfsen Udall
N8354 .U33 2000

Women, art, and society /Whitney Chadwick. N8354 .C48 2002

Art and feminism /edited by Helena Reckitt ; survey by Peggy Phelan. N72.F45 A78 2001

Women and the machine :representations from the spinning wheel to the electronic age /Julie Wosk. HQ1233 .W67 2001

Ladies first :40 daring American women who were second to none /Elizabeth Cody Kimmel.
[MCN] LADIES

Unbowed :a memoir /Wangari Muta Maathai. SB63.M22 A3 2007

Champions for peace: women winners of the Nobel Peace Prize /Judith Hicks Stiehm.
JZ5540 .S74 2006

Changing our world :true stories of women engineers /Sybil E. Hatch. TA157 .H4155 2006

How she does it: how women entrepreneurs are changing the rules of business success /Margaret Heffernan. HD6053 .H37 2007

Amelia Earhart :flying solo /John Burke. [MCN] AMELIA

Working women /Christina Fisanick, book editor. HQ759.48 .W675 2008

Feminism /Christina Fisanick, book editor. HQ1155 .F44 2008

Leading ladies :American trailblazers /Kay Bailey Hutchison. [MCN] LEADING

The invisible woman: gender, crime, and justice /Joanne Belknap. [RES] HV9950 .B45 2007

Take a trip through time this St. Patrick's Day as the reader explores Eire from ancient times to modern in Michael Jenner's Ireland Through the Ages. Begin with curious neolithic rock formations created by prehistoric inhabitants, foray through vernacular and majestic architecture, and end with the Irish Free State. From the book jacket:

The past in Ireland lives powerfully in the present. An amazing variety of physical remains, bearing the scars and trophies of Ireland's chequered history, tell of bygone personalities, endeavours and events. This beautifully illustrated narrative uses a multitude of these places as stepping stones through the ages to evoke the glory of Ireland's heritage.

Ireland Through the Ages can be found in the North Campus Library at DA 978.2 .J46 1992.

Spotlight Database: African American Experience

Learn about African American history this month and any month with one of our newest databases, African American Experience by Greenwood Electronic Media.

Read landmark documents, view their image index, listen to audio files, and much more with this comprehensive resource.

From the vendor:

The widest-ranging and easiest-to-use online collection on African American life ever assembled, The African American Experience is the definitive electronic research tool for African American history and culture from one of the most respected publishers in the field.

The North Campus Library offers this and over 100 more electronic databases for student use. These can be accessed from any Internet computer, even off-campus. All you need is your student ID number; the PIN is the last four digits of that number. When in the library, ask the reference librarian how to use the databases, or call the reference desk at 305-237-1183 for assistance.

New Databases Now!

North Campus Library has some new databases that are worth taking a look at. Here are just a few, with descriptions from the vendors:

American Song (Alexander Street Press) - a history database that contains 50,000 tracks and allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. The database will include songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more.

Tests In Print (Ebsco) - a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).

World History Collection (Ebsco) - offers a global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. World History Collection contains cover-to-cover full text for more than 130 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals. Full text dates as far back as 1964.

The North Campus Library offers this and over 100 more electronic databases for student use. These can be accessed from any Internet computer, even off-campus. All you need is your student ID number; the PIN is the last four digits of that number. When in the library, ask the reference librarian how to use the databases, or call the reference desk at 305-237-1183 for assistance.