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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.

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• 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 Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy (JOSPT) (1979 to present) Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (2014 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

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

  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)

  Proquest  Basic instructions about searching in ProQuest (7:56 min running time)

  Interactive Tutorials

  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

• 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
  COON RAPIDS - PRINT

  EDUCATION
  Peterson’s Guide to Two Year Colleges, 2021

  HISTORY
  Intent to Deceive: Denying the Genocide of the Tutsi, by Linda Melvern
  Mussolini’s War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943, by John Gooch
  Taconite: New Life for Minnesota’s Iron Range: the History of Erie Mining Company, edited by Pamela Koch

  HPER
  Building a Wellness Business that Lasts, by Rick Strollmeyer

  LITERATURE
  African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song, edited by Kevin Young
  Evidence of V: a Novel in Fragments, Facts, and Fictions, by Sheila O’Connor
  Homie: Poems, by Danez Smith (2020 National Book Critics Circle Finalist; 2020 NAACP Image Award for Poetry Finalist)
  Picturing Worlds: Visuality and Visual Sovereignty in Contemporary Anishinaabe Literature, by David Stirrup
  Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, by Sandra M. Gilbert & Susan Gubar
  Sweeter Voices Still: an LGBTQ Anthology from Middle America, Edited by Ryan Schuessler and Kevin Whitenier, Jr.
  Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic, edited by Alice Quinn

  MUSIC
  Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary, by Sasha Geffen
  God Save the Queens: the Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop, by Kathy Iandoli

  THEATER
  The Best American Short Plays, 2018-2019, edited by John Patrick Bray

  WOMEN’S STUDIES
  Peace on Our Terms: the Global Battle for Women’s Rights After the First World War, by Mona L. Siegel

  CAMBRIDGE - PRINT 

  PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, RELIGION
  Listen Like You Mean It
  Chatter: The Voice in our Head
  Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
  White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity

  HISTORY
  Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
  From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin
  Endpapers
  The Sum of Us
  Down Along With That Devil's Bones
  Kamala's Way

  SOCIAL SCIENCES
  Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
  The Tyranny of Merit
  Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man

  POLITICAL SCIENCE
  The American Crisis: What Went Wrong. How We Recover
  Find the Helpers
  The Undocumented Americans

  LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
  Klara and the Sun
  Mexican Gothic
  Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck
  Before the Ever After
  Girlhood
  The Hill We Climb
  Remote Control
  We Are Water Protectors
  When You Trap a Tiger
  I Talk Like a River

  SCIENCE
  Life on Our Planet
  The Code Breaker
  Minnesota's Natural Heritage

  MEDICINE
  The Well Gardened Mind

  TECHNOLOGY/COOKING
  Ottolenghi Simple: A Cookbook

  E-BOOKS AND SERIALS

  Additional E-books can be found in EBSCO in the eBooks Collection, or by searching for the title in our Library Search. Use StarID and password to access if prompted.

  Advertising and the Transformation of Screen Cultures, by Bo Florin, Patrick Vonderau, and Yvonne Zimmermann
  The Affirmative Action Puzzle: a Living History from Reconstruction to Today, by Melvin I. Urofsky
  All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson
  Alpha: Abidjan To Paris; Translated by Sarah Adrizzone
  America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s
  American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction
  Annual Review of Medicine 2021
  Annual Review of Public Health 2021
  Apollo’s Arrow: the Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way we Live, by Nicholas A. Christakis
  As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance
  Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
  The Beatles and Sixties Britain, by Marcus Collins
  Bildhaan: an International Journal of Somali Studies 2001-current; 2005-18 also available in print in the CR library
  A Black Women’s History of the United States (Revisioning American History series)
  Caste: the Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson
  Cruelty as Citizenship: How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy, by Cristina Beltran
  Facebook: the Inside Story, by Steven Levy
  Feel Puma: Poems (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry series), by Ray Gonzalez
  Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder: a Memoir, by Julia Zarankin
  German Cinema in the Age of Neoliberalism, by Hester Baer
  Heavy: An American Memoir
  His Truth is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope, by Jon Meacham
  How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better than Any Machine…for Now, by Stanislas Dehaene
  I-Take-Over: the Recording Industry in the Streaming Era (Critical Perspectives on Music and Society series), by David Arditi
  Land of Big Numbers: Stories, by Te-Ping Chen
  Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
  Minor Feelings: an Asian American Reckoning, by Cathy Park Hong
  Minority Women and Western Media: Challenging Representations and Articulating New Voices (Media, Culture and the Arts series)
  Modern Slavery: a Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues series)
  Peculiar Imbalance: The Fall and Rise of Racial Equality in Early Minnesota
  Prison Truth: The Story of the San Quentin News, by William J. Drummond
  Reading, Writing, and Racism: Disrupting Whiteness in Teacher Education and in the Classroom, by Bree Picower
  Realist Cinema as World Cinema: Non-Cinema, Intermedial Passages, Total Cinema
  Refugee Crises, 1945-2000: Political and Societal Responses in International Comparison (Publications of the German Historical Institute series), by Jan Jansen and Simone Lassig
  Supreme Inequality: the Supreme Court’s 50-Year Battle for a More Unjust America, by Adam Cohen
  Teach Yourself How to Learn: Strategies You Can Use to Ace Any Course at Any Level
  The Undocumented Americans, by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
  A Woman's Ayurvedic Herbal: A Guide for Natural Health and Well-Being, by Caroline Robertson and Antonia Beattie

  OERs

  Advanced Community College ESL Composition: an Integrated Skills Approach
  American Literature I: An Anthology of Texts from Early America Through the Civil War
  Art Appreciation [Complete Collection of Lessons]
  Biomechanics of Human Movement
  Body Physics: Motion to Metabolism
  Brass Techniques and Pedagogy
  The Bright Continent: African Art History
  Climate Toolkit: A Resource Manual for Science and Action
  Contemporary Families: an Equity Lens
  Critical Employment, Ethical, and Legal Scenarios in Human Resource Development
  Digging into Archaeology: a Brief OER Introduction to Archaeology with Activities
  Exploring Movie Construction & Production: What’s so Exciting about Movies?
  History and Science of Cultivated Plants
  Howdy or Hello?: Technical and Business Communications - Revised Pilot Edition
  Interpersonal Communication: A Mindful Approach to Relationships
  Modern World History
  Monitoring Animal Populations and their Habitats: a Practitioner's Guide
  Moving Pictures: An Introduction to Cinema
  Multivariable Calculus
  Oral Communication for Non-Native Speakers of English
  Physical Geography
  Plato's Republic: An Introduction
  The Revolution in Cinematography Post Production And Distribution
  Small Group Communication: Forming & Sustaining Teams
  Teaching Low Brass
  The Western World: Daily Readings on Geography
  Writing for Change: an Advanced ELL Resource

• CONTACT THE LIBRARY

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  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

  LIZ FAIRCHILD

  Email Liz
  763-433-1117
  AS, Anoka-Ramsey Community College