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Plenty of students come to college without having learned much about using a library. Because of this, you’re subjected to library tours and class sessions on research methods. Much of this goes right by you because you won’t care about it until you need it. So here’s most of what you’ll need to know to succeed in the LCC library.
Checking Out Materials Magazines and Newspapers
Finding Materials in the Library Library Web Pages
Online Sources Kansas Library Card
Research Tips Interlibrary Loan
Rules and Regulations Library Staff
Checking Out Materials
Books may be borrowed for 2 weeks and then renewed for two weeks unless they’re needed by another patron. All reference books or books on reserve may be used only in the library. Reserve materials may only be used in the library unless the instructor has indicated differently. Pamphlets from the vertical file may be borrowed for 1 week. If you wish to borrow library materials, you’ll have to show your student ID or other picture id. Nothing will be checked out if you do not have id.
Magazines and Newspapers
Magazines and newspapers are not to be removed from the library. If you need an article, it may be read in the library or photocopied. Photocopies are 10 cents each. We have a microfilm reader printer/printer to access some of our older magazine issues. Students may also use the copy machine to copy magazine articles available in hard copy. Copies from these machines are 10 cents a page.
Finding Material in the Library
Books are arranged by the Dewey Decimal System. You locate materials through the Web catalog. Books are arranged by their call number on the shelves. You’ll find each book’s call number on a label near the bottom of the book’s spine. The Web catalog is available at http://www.labette.edu/Library/crdctlg.htm You can look up materials by author, title or subject. Click on the desired link to see the full record. If you can’t find the book you need, ask a library staff member. If you didn’t find anything on your topic, broaden your search topic. If you need help with your search, you can also ask a library staff member for help.
To find magazine articles, you use periodical indexes. These indexes are located on the index table. Reader’s Guide, Social Sciences Index, Education Index, Kansas Periodical Index, Humanities Index, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Essay and General Literature Index, and Short Story Index all list magazine articles by subject. Once you have located an article, look in the Library Periodical Holdings List to see which ones that the library owns and to determine in what format the article is available.
Library Web Pages:
LCC library has established Web pages to assist students in researching their class assignments. The URL for the pages is:
http://www.labette.edu/Library/index.htm
From this page, students can connect to a number of good subject guides to links to Internet resources. These links include government sites, ready reference tools and search engines.
Online Sources:
On campus and remote access is available for connecting to the AccessScience, Encyclopedia Britannica, First Search, Infotrac, JSTOR, Micromedex, Newsbank Newsfile, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center, ProQuest, Reference Suite, Standard and Poor’s NetAdvantage and Wilson OmniFile Full Text Select. AccessScience provides the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, over 2100 science biographies, and news stories from Science News. First Search gives online access to WorldCat, a Web catalog to millions of sources. The Reference Suite is a group of databases that contains over 80,000 full-text articles and selective articles dealing with historical events back to the 40’s. There are also full text newspaper articles. Newsbank Newsfile offers full text articles from many Kansas newspapapers, including the Parsons Sun and page image of the Kansas City Star. It also offers full text of other major newspapers and magazines. Infotrac, ProQuest, JSTOR and Wilson Omni File provides you with online access to indexing. The databases offer the full text of articles as well as many articles in page image format. Periodicals in this format have been scanned into the database. Micromedex offers reference materials for nursing students. NetAdvantage has company profiles and articles related to business. If you have any problems with the databases, need more information or would like information about off campus access, contact the Library.
Kansas Library Card:
Additional resources are available with a Kansas Library Card, which may be obtained at any Kansas library. To obtain a card, just present your driver’s license to a library staff member, who will give you a card with a pin number. The cards are valid for one year and can be renewed. After obtaining the card, go to http://www.kslc.org and type in your pin number and birth date.
Research Tips
When searching for articles on the computer-based sources, you should use the online sources first because the printouts are free. While the electronic indexes cover a large number of magazines, you’ll find some periodicals covered in the print sources that the electronic sources do not cover.
Interlibrary Loan
If you are still unable to find the information that you need, you may want to use our Interlibrary Loan services. LCC is connected with other libraries in a system that gives any LCC student access to resources all over the country. If we can identify an item, we can probably borrow it from somewhere. Usually the time frame is two to four weeks.
Email Reference
We also provide an email reference service. Send us your topic and where you are stumped and we will do some searching for you, or request a book or magazine article that you find in your research and we will do the interlibrary loan for you. You can access the email reference service from our Web page at http://www.labette.edu/Library/emailref.htm
I B DEAD
I B DEAD is an acronym that stands for Indexes, Bibliographies, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Almanacs, and Directories. When you look for information, the way you search will be determined by the kind of information you need.. Need statistics? Try the almanacs. Need names or addresses? Directories. Need definitions of unfamiliar terms? Dictionaries. Need lists of books on particular topics? Bibliographies. Many subjects have their own dictionaries, almanacs and directories. Indexes will steer you to magazine articles. For broad background you’ll want to start with encyclopedia articles. There are also subject encyclopedias.
Rules and Regulations
Please refrain from using tobacco, cell phones and food in the Library. Please keep all food and drinks away from the computers and only have bottled water in the Library.
There will be a 10 cents a day fine for materials that are returned late. There will be a $1 a day fine for any interlibrary loan material that is returned late. Holds will be placed on the patrons account for items not returned, copies not paid for and any fines.
The book return is located outside the northwest entrance to the main building.
Library Staff
Scotty Zollars, Library Director
Phylis Coomes, Library Assistant
Matt Heflin, Library Aide
Genelle Mead, Library Aide
Erlene Cares, Library Aide
Library Hours
Spring and Fall: (Unless Posted Otherwise)
Mon.-Thurs., 8 AM - 8:30 PM
Friday, 8AM - 4:30 PM
Sat & Sun., CLOSED
Summer: (Unless Posted Otherwise)
Mon. & Tues., 7AM - 7 PM
Wed & Thurs., 7 AM - 4:30 PM
Friday - Sun., Closed