Gould Library News :: Carleton College

Extended Library Hours

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:15:22 -0600

The library will be open additional hours during finals. Library hours November 19-23 are:

Thursday, Nov 19   8 am-3 am
Friday, Nov 20       8 am-3 am
Saturday, Nov 21   9 am-3 am
Sunday, Nov 22     9 am-3 am
Monday, Nov 23     8 am-10 pm

Guide to Citing Sources

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:27:33 -0600

Need help citing your sources or creating a bibliography? Take a look at the library's guide to Citing Sources.

If you need more help, or want to talk with someone, stop by the Research/IT desk to meet with a librarian!

Featured Library Resource: JSTOR

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:21:05 -0600

JSTOR is an online collection of hundreds scholarly journals that spans many disciplines.

Word of the Week: ISBN

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:44:48 -0600

International Standard Book Number. Developed in 1966 and adopted as an international standard in 1970, the ISBN is a unique, ten- or (since January 1, 2007) thirteen-digit number assigned to every published book. Hardcover and paperback editions of the same book are assigned different numbers, and new editions of books are assigned a new ISBN number.

Though it is usually pronounced as individual letters, some people do pronounce it as a word: iz-bun.

New DVDs at the Library

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:14:44 -0500

This week's list of new DVD arrivals at the Library.

Featured Library Resource: AP Images

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:57:37 -0500

This week's featured resource is the AP Images database.

Word of the Week: Depository Library

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:21:46 -0500

A depository library is a library designated by the U.S. government to receive and keep some or all of that government's published documents. Gould Library is a depository library and has been since 1930. Our government documents collections are comprised of a total of 279,097 cataloged items in tangible formats:

paper (85,831 items on Level 1)
microfiche & film (184,119 items on Level 1)
CD-ROMS (2,034 items on Level 1)
maps (7,113 cataloged items on level 2, plus thousands of uncataloged maps, including all USGS topographics for all states)

as well as thousands of documents available electronically available.

Celebrate Open Access Week at Carleton

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:15:29 -0500

Carleton is joining others across the world in celebrating Open Access Week. Open Access (OA) is a movement that has been underway since 2002. OA is a growing international movement that encourages the unrestricted sharing of research results with everyone, everywhere, for the advancement and enjoyment of science and society.

New DVDs at the Library

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:32:39 -0500

This week's list of new DVD arrivals at the Library.

Featured Library Resource: Chicago Manual of Style

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:21:46 -0500

Online access to the venerable guide to publishing style, documentation, and citation, The Chicago Manual of Style, is available to the entire Carleton community.

Word of the Week: Boolean Operators

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:42:12 -0500

Boolean operators are words that specify the relationship between two or more search terms when doing keyword searches.

New DVDs at the Library

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:17:38 -0500

This week's list of new DVD arrivals at the Library.