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LibGuide/Research guide is a term librarians use frequently when describing their resources. Honestly, it’s a bit of jargon term. Essentially, what we are talking about is a mini-website filled with information resources around a particular topic so you can easily navigate to them when you need them. Here at Lenoir-Rhyne, all of our Research Guides tend to follow a familiar format. I recently put together an 8 minute video going over "the what and the why" of Research Guides so you can feel comfortable in using them for your research. This video also covers some important library basics as well. Students who haven’t used a library website in a while may find this particularly helpful refresher information. It discusses what a database is and when to use one as well the nature of academic journals and general library research.

I've been getting a lot questions about the new library website and library search lately. I want to cover a few Frequently Asked Questions about our new search service, Summon and share a video I made recently on how to use it. PLAY VIDEO HERE FAQs  Why do I get so many results? Summon searches about 100 online resources—most of our electronic collection and all of our ebooks!  That includes a number of large e-journal collections, not available through PowerSearch—scholarly journal collections from publishers like Wiley, Sage, Elsevier, and Springer.  We’ve also added selected open access content sources as well. The amount of “stuff” that is being searched is bigger than ever before. For this reason, be sure to take advantage of the various filters on the left hand side. When looking for research articles, students often select both "Full Text Online" as well as "Scholarly & Peer-Review” as the filters they automatically apply to ev

Spring is in the air here in Asheville, making it a very fitting time to celebrate   National Poetry Month. "National Poetry Month was inaugurated by the  Academy of American Poets  in 1996. Over the years, it has become the largest literary celebration in the world with schools, publishers, libraries, booksellers, and poets celebrating poetry’s vital place in our culture" (Poets.org). Not sure how you can participate? Check out  30 Ways to Celebrate National Poetry Month   to get some ideas. 11.  Attend a poetry reading at a local university, bookstore, cafe, or library. You can easily check #11 off your list at any of the upcoming WordFest events. WordFest is sponsored by Lenoir-Rhyne University Asheville, April 12th-14th and the festival director is LR's very own,   Laura Hope-Gill , Assistant Professor of Writing. "The 11th Asheville WordFest invites audiences and participants to venture deeply into spaces of tension and complexity in sea

Last year, Rachel put together this great flyer for spring break featuring library databases that you might use to fill your leisure time. There's the NC Live's Home Grown eBook Collection filled with popular novels and award-winning short fiction and poetry as well as the Mango Languages service. Language-teaching services are generally expensive, so this is a wonderful resource available to you through the library website. And, finally, there's Kanopy . Never heard of it? Well, listen up! This streaming service is absolutely chock full of entertaining and educational films for your viewing pleasure. It has over 30,000 documentaries, classics, and indie films (the Criterion Collection!). It also now contains the entire series of the Great Courses. The Great Courses is a series of college-level audio and video courses produced and distributed by The Teaching Company, an American company based in Chantilly, Virginia. The courses are divided into digestible indiv