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• Books, DVDs, and CDs

  Click Library Search to find books, DVDs, CDs, and other materials at ARCC and other Minnesota state colleges and universities. Use your StarID and password to log into Library Search when requesting items.

  Library Search

  Click MnLINK to find books, DVDs, CDs, and other materials at public libraries and private colleges in Minnesota. Use the barcode from the back of your student ID card to log into MnLINK when requesting items.

  MnLINK

• Scholarly Journals and Newspaper Databases

  Browse magazines & journals by subject with BrowZine
  How to use BrowZine - a short tutorial

  Databases
  ARTSTOR: Art images - ArtStor Quickstart Guide BREPOLIS: International Medieval Bibliography--(on-campus use only) Brepolis Guide BRITANNICA ACADEMIC EDITION: Encyclopedia content; articles, multimedia, biographies, and research tools BRITANNICA ORIGINAL SOURCES: Over 420,000 primary source documents, complete books, and authentic images eHRAF: World Cultures eHRAF User Guide EBSCO: Academic, Art, Business, CINAHL, PsycArticles, etc. EBSCO Tutorial GALE: Academic including Opposing Viewpoints, etc. Gale Tutorials GROVE MUSIC ONLINE: Grove Music Help Page JSTOR: Arts & Sciences and Music Collection JSTOR Tutorials LEARNING EXPRESS LIBRARY: Create your own account for this resource, where you will find tutorials and eBooks, and practice tests for various exams: Accuplacer, ACT, NCLEX, PTA, and more. How to create a free Learning Express Library Account Historical Minnesota Newspapers ProQuest Newspaper database  ProQuest Help
  Journals
  Please see a librarian if a year you need is not listed below. Annual Review of Medicine (2016 to present) Annual Review of Psychology (2015 to present) Annual Review of Public Health (2015 to present) Contemporary Literature (from on-campus PCs only) Geography Teacher Journal of Chemical Education (1924 to present) Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences (2011 to present) Journal of Geography Journal of Music Therapy  Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy (JOSPT) (1979 to present) Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (2014 to present)  Music Therapy Perspectives  Resurgence & Ecologist (1966 to present)

  • What is a scholarly journal (sometimes referred to a "peer-reviewed")?
  • Why shouldn't I just "google" my research...what's the big difference?
  • How can I determine if a website is credible?

• Streaming Videos

  Search Films-On-Demand, providing high-quality video and multimedia for academic, vocational and life-skills content. You'll need your StarID and password when viewing from off campus.

  Search Kanopy, an on-demand streaming video platform that offers viewers a large collection of award-winning films and documentaries. You will need to create a free Kanopy account and sign in to access the collection. You'll need your StarID and password when viewing from off campus.

• Library Video Tutorials

  Videos

  Films on Demand - Finding videos in Films on Demand (2:33 min. running time)

  Interlibrary Loan--Requesting Articles A brief tutorial of how to request a journal article through interlibrary loan (4:10 min. running time)  Downloadable instructions for accessing scholarly articles

  JSTOR Database  Using JSTOR, a digital library containing academic journals and primary sources (2:44 min running time)

  Kanopy--Part 1: Creating an Account Creating a Kanopy account in order to view streaming videos (1:52 min.running time)

  Kanopy--Part 2: Searching in Kanopy How to find videos in Kanopy; search tips; accessing citations (4:19 min. running time)

  LearningExpress Library Find practice tests and study materials for TEAS, NCLEX, Accuplacer and more in the LearningExpress Library(6:49 min. running time)

  Library Intro and Finding Online Journal Articles for Communication Studies, with additional information for concurrent students (14:54 min. running time)

  Opposing Viewpoints How to find information in the Opposing Viewpoint database (4:08 min. running time)

  Popular Magazines, Trade Journals and Peer-reviewed Journals A brief explanation of their differences (2:50 min. running time)

  Searching for Newspaper Articles in Proquest  Basic instructions about searching in ProQuest (7:56 min running time)

  Interactive Tutorials

  BrowZine - a brief tutorial about browsing online magazines and journals by subject with BrowZine

  Evaluating Online Resources

  Finding Current Journal Articles in Library Databases

  Finding Newspaper Articles in ProQuest

  Using Academic Search Premier

  Using CINAHL (nursing/allied health database)

  Using JSTOR

  Using Library Search

• Library Vocabulary

  Do you speak "library"? Use these links to learn about commonly used library terms and what they mean.

  Library Multilingual Glossary

  Library Term Definitions

  ELL Library Vocabulary

• Pro & Con Sources

  Opposing Viewpoints is the premier online resource covering today’s hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration, to violent video games. This cross-curricular research tool supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes. Its informed, differing views present each side of an issue and help students develop information literacy, critical thinking skills, and the confidence to draw their own valid conclusions. 

  CQ Researcher provides in-depth analysis on newsworthy social and political issues, including background information, chronologies and pro/con features in its coverage. For more information, see the CQ ResearcherTutorial.

• Topic Ideas

   Just getting started with ideas or need ways to develop your topic?

  • Roam the shelves in the library. Books are categorized by the Library of Congress Classification system (LC chart), a subject-based alpha-numeric convention.
  • Encyclopedias (try Britannica Academic) cover the entire range of human knowledge in brief. A search for a basic concept recalls every mention of that concept in the encyclopedia, indicating different contexts for it and some of the fields of study that have explored it. Subject specific encyclopedias cover the knowledge base of a single discipline in brief.
  • Check your textbook for a bibliography of books and articles consulted.
  • Browse topics in a library database:
    • CQ Researcher has a "hot topics" section at the far right on the homepage.
    • Opposing Viewpoints categorizes their topics by subject overview at the homepage.
  • Government Information: Scan by topic to find government information and services on USA.gov.

• Other Resources for Research

  Agricola  USDA National Agriculture Library	Minnesota Statutes Minnesota Statutes, Session Laws, and Rules
  Britannica Academic  An accurate, current, and comprehensive resource for college-level learners	NASA PubSpace  Public access to peer-reviewed papers from NASA-funded research
  CIA World Factbook  Information on 267 countries/entities	National Library of Medicine  Access to PubMed, MedLine, MeSH, and more
  Federal Digital System  US government information	Occupational Outlook Handbook  Information about careers, employment, salaries & more
  Global Climate Change  Vital signs of our planet	Science  U.S. government science information
  Khan Academy (Subject Tutorials)  Free tutorials and personalized learning	Statistical Abstracts  Information from the U.S. Census Bureau
  Minnesota Compass  Trends and data on the topics that impact Minnesotans' quality of life	United Nations Demographic Yearbook  Demographic and social statistics gathered from national and international sources
  Minnesota Court Forms  Downloadable court forms from the Minnesota Judicial Branch website	United Nations Statistical Yearbook  Downloadable yearbook - an annual publication
  Minnesota Legislative Manual  From the Secretary of State website - downloadable MN Blue Book	USA.gov  Official website of the United States Government
  State of Minnesota  Official Minnesota state website	U.S. Census  Census Bureau data about the nation's people and economy
  Minnesota Reflections  Over 50,000 Minnesota-specific primary sources & items	White House  Official website of the White House

• Citation Guides

  Citation Help

  Tutors in the ARCC Writing Center can help you with citations and references.

  • Virtual Tutoring Hours: Monday–Friday, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
  • Website: http://www.anokaramsey.edu/resources/tutoring-services/
  • Email: writing.tutoring@anokaramsey.edu

  Style Guides

  After using any of these resources, always double-check your citations against the most current published guide. Below you will find resources for the most commonly used citation styles from the style guide homepages, as well as, the Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL).

  • APA - American Psychological Association style is most commonly used to cite sources within the sciences. APA Tutorial
  • MLA - Modern Language Association style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities.
  • CMS - Chicago Manual of Style covers a variety of topics from manuscript preparation and publication to grammar, usage, and documentation. CMS Quick Chart
  • Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)  provides writing resources and instructional material for MLA and APA styles.

  Frequently Asked Questions How do I cite a Tweet or other social media? Or YouTube? What is plagiarism and how do I determine if I'm at risk of doing it? Which websites are considered credible and how can I evaluate my results?

  pla·gia·rize: to use the words or ideas of another person as if they were your own words or ideas to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source to commit literary theft : present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source Source: Merriam-Webster.com, 2017

   

• OER Resources

  What Are OER Textbooks?

  Click to read the MinnState guides about OER:
  Quick Guide to OER for Students
  Using OER Through Covid-19

  Where to Begin Searching for OER

  Minnesota State Opendora - OER materials created by MinnState faculty

  Community College Consortium for OER - open texts for community colleges in a variety of subjects

  MERLOT Project, advanced search by material type

  OER Commons - links to texts in Biology, Business, Math, and Psychology

  Open Textbook Library - University of Minnesota’s OER textbook library

  OpenStax - peer-reviewed texts for students

  Directory of Open Access Journals - search or browse for free journal articles

  CORA: Community of Online Research Assignments - an open access resource for faculty and librarians, intended to be a collaborative space for adapting and experimenting with research assignments.
  
  

  OER Resources by Discipline

  CHEM: CLUE - Chemistry, Life, the Universe and Everything

  ENGL: 88 Open Essays - Google Docs 

  GEOG: Open Geography Education

  GEOG: Syllabus, Quizzes and Exams | OER Repository  

  MATH: Getting Started with Math OER 

  MATH: MyOpenMath - self-study sources for students; pre-built courses based on open texts for instructors

  MATH: Stitz Zeager Open Source Mathematics 

  PSYC: Noba Project - Psychology OERs 

  STEM: PhET: Free online physics, chemistry, biology, earth science and math simulations 

• New Books

  NEW ACQUISITIONS

  FEATURED WEBSITES

  Library of Congress National Book Festival videos

  Public Domain 2022 – Books, Sound Recordings, Movies, and Musical Compositions
  January 1, 2022, is Public Domain Day: Works from 1926 are open to all, as is a cornucopia of recorded music: an estimated 400,000 sound recordings from before 1923

  E-BOOKS
  

  The Chemical Age: How Chemists Fought Famine and Disease, Killed Millions, and Changed Our Relationship with the Earth, by Frank N. Von Hippel
  Land of Big Numbers: Stories, by Te-Ping Chen
  My Slipper Floated Away: New American Memoirs, edited by Justine Hope Blau
  Reading, Writing, and Racism: Disrupting Whiteness in Teacher Education and in the Classroom, by Bree Picower
  Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science, by Maya J. Goldenber
  

  OER

  American LGBTQ Rights Movement: An Introduction

  Ancient Greek I: A 21st Century Approach

  Antiracism Inc.: Why the Way We Talk about Racial Justice Matters

  Black Matters: Introduction to Black Studies course

  Culturas Hispanas a Través de la Pantalla

  Fundamentals of Music Theory

  Liquidity, Markets and Trading in Action

  Race and Ethnic Relations in the U.S.: An Intersectional Approach

  Slavery to Liberation: The African American Experience

  Writing for Change: an Advanced ELL Experience

  COON RAPIDS - PRINT

  ART

  The Art of Still Life: a Contemporary Guide to Classical Techniques, Composition, and Painting in Oil, by Todd M. Casey

  HISTORY

  Against the Tide of American History: the Story of the Mille Lacs Anishinabe, by W. Roger Buffalohead; Priscilla Buffalohead; Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. and Joycelyn Shingobe Wedll (donation)
  Arrival of the First Africans in Virginia, by Ric Murphy

  LITERATURE

  The Best American Short Stories 2021, edited by Jesmyn Ward
  The Secret of the Old Clock, by Carolyn Keene
  We March, by Shane W. Evans (donation)
  Yeh-Shen: a Cinderella Story from China, retold by Ai-Ling Louie, illustrated by Ed Young (donation)
  

  PHYSICAL THERAPIST ASSISTANT

  Documentation for PTAs, by Wendy D. Bircher
  Fundamental Orthopedic Management for the PTA, by Robert Manske
  Umphred’s Neurorehabilitation for the PTA, by Rolando T. Lazaro and Darcy A. Umphred

  PSYCHOLOGY

  Courage After Fire: Coping Strategies for Troops Returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and their Families, by Keith Armstrong, Suzanne Best and Paula Domenici (donation)

  RELIGION

  Walk Humbly with Your God: Simple Steps to a Virtuous Life, by Fr. Andrew Apostoli (donation)

• CONTACT THE LIBRARY

  Library Hours
  Coon Rapids 763-433-1150
  Cambridge 763-433-1950
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  Faculty Librarians
  

  GINA PANCERELLA-WILLIS 
  Coon Rapids

  Email Gina
  763-433-1197
  MS, Drexel University

  BA, Franklin and Marshall College

  BARBARA SANDARIN 
  Coon Rapids

  Email Barbara
  763-433-1466
  MLIS, St. Catherine University

  BA, Mount Mary College

  JULIANA BONER
  Cambridge

  Email Juliana
  763-433-1358
  MLIS, Dominican University

  BA, St. Catherine University

  Library Staff

  TJ GUINEY
  Coon Rapids

  Email TJ
  763-433-1279
  MLIS, St. Catherine University

  SARA CARMAN
  Cambridge

  Email Sara
  763-433-1883
  MLIS, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign