JSTOR (Journal Storage) is an electronic archive of academic journals. JTCC subscribes to four of JSTOR’s collections, which gives students and faculty to approximately 550 journals. The collections are particularly strong in the humanities, notably history, language, literature, political science, art, and philosophy. JSTOR journals work on a moving wall system; there is a time [...]
The Midlothian library has been open for nearly two months and is even more popular than the old library. The new library is located on the second floor of the new Science Building, in room C202. The new space features:
120 networked computers, all with Vista and Office 2007
Comfortable seating
More open study tables
Four [...]
The Modern Language Association published a major update of the manual this year. MLA style is a popular citation style at John Tyler; this change will affect multiple disciplines.
This 7th edition has changed the rules for citing sources to make things clearer in electronic sources and bibliographies.
No underlining. MLA now asks for italicizing the titiles [...]
Mark Vieira’s book Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood, published in 1999, offers a fascinating window into a Hollywood era that many people know little about. It focuses on films made between 1929 and 1934 when studio filmmakers often ignored what became known as the Hays Code. This was basically an attempt by the major studios to head off government [...]
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Preparing the bibliography of a paper can be a detailed and time-consuming process. BUT technology can make the process a bit less painful. The EBSCO databases have citations tools built into the system–use them!
Below is a screen shot from a journal article from the database. The yellow page (circled in [...]
Scholarly Journals are magazines that publish new findings, research and commentary from people in the academic field of study. Unlike popular magazines (like People or Sports Illustrated) scholarly journals have few photographs, have longer articles with in-depth analysis, and often treat a narrow element of a larger subject. Articles like this are excellent sources for [...]
The library is not just books! John Tyler’s Libraries have Google, but we also have databases, audio books, eBooks, WiFi and live chat help. John Tyler’s Librarians are happy to help you with your research, formatting your paper, or even issues with your laptop.
Plus, we can help prevent accidents like this one:
Google vs. The Library
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