Anoka Ramsey Community College

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• Summer Hours

  Summer Hours (academic year hours resume August 23)
  Coon Rapids Campus
  May 15 - May 31	CLOSED
  June 1 - August 4
  Monday/Tuesday for Grab & Go only	9 am - 4 pm
  Wednesday for Grab & Go only	10 am - 6 pm
  Thursday-Friday/Weekends/Holidays	CLOSED
  Aug 5 - 22	CLOSED
  Cambridge Campus
  May 15 - May 31	CLOSED
  June 1 - Aug 5
  OPEN THURSDAYS for Grab & Go only	9 am - 4 pm
  Aug 6 - 22	CLOSED

• Anoka-Ramsey Library Response to COVID-19

  Reference assistance and instruction will continue to be provided remotely for both campuses Monday thru Friday.

  The Coon Rapids and Cambridge campus libraries' physical spaces will remain closed spring semester.  All study rooms, seating areas, library computers, and stacks are off-limits. However, limited days/times are available for "Grab & Go" to pick up online requests:

  • Coon Rapids library Grab & Go:
    Stop in at the library desk during our open hours for heart monitors, item pickup and/or requests.
    • Monday & Wednesday: 9 am-4 pm 
    • Tuesday & Thursday: pick up/returns by appointment only, 9 am-4 pm
    • Friday closed 
    Heart monitors can be checked out and returned at the library front desk. Do not return them in the outdoor book drop.
  • Cambridge library Grab & Go:
    Place your request using our online catalog or contact the library/librarian. Pick up by arrangement during our Grab & Go hours: Tue and Fri, 9 am-4 pm.  Remote instruction and/or assistance is available Mon-Fri from 9 am to 4 pm.
    Follow these directions to request physical items for Grab & Go pickup, or request by phone during open service hours. To arrange pickup time, you may call the library (763-433-1950) or contact the librarian via phone (763-433-1358) or email. After you receive an email with a loan receipt, you may pick up your item at the library.
  • Have your ID card ready when you pick up your item. If you have not yet gotten your student ID, you can request one by emailing PhotoID@anokaramsey.edu.
  • Individual research, instruction, and database help from library faculty is available via phone, email, or Zoom.  Book a Research Appointment to get started. Library Chat is also now available!
  • Check out our Library Video Tutorials for brief videos on how to use specific library resources.
  • You may continue to request journal articles via our FREE interlibrary loan (ILL) service, and online delivery will continue to your college e-mail address. Contact Candice Young with questions. Physical item requests through ILL are also available.
  • All items currently checked out (other than heart monitors and reserve items) will be automatically renewed until the end of the spring semester (May 7). This does not include items from other institutions that are borrowed through ILL.
  • All physical items can be returned to our book drops.
    • In Coon Rapids, please return them to the outdoor book drop at Entrance #1 (on the north side, opposite the visitors parking lot) or the library circulation desk Mon-Thu 9-4. Heart monitors should only be returned at the library circulation desk.
    • In Cambridge, please return books and DVDs to the book drop at the library door. Heart monitors should be returned Tuesdays/Fridays 8-3:30.
  • If you have items checked out from non-ARCC libraries through ILL (interlibrary loan) and need to renew them beyond their current due date, please follow these steps:
    1. Go to http://www.anokaramsey.edu/resources/library/
    2. Click the My Library Account button.
    3. Click the StarID login option.
    4. At login prompt, use your StarID and password to log in.
    5. Once logged in, click on the dropdown arrow next to your name.
    6. Click on My Loans. Use the Renew link to renew each item.
    7. Check back in a few days for the lending library's response.
    8. Contact us with any questions about this process.

• 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

  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) Journal of Chemical Education (1924 to present) Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences (2011 to present) Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy (JOSPT) (1979 to present) Journal of Sport Management (on-campus use only) (1987 to present) Sociology of Sport Journal (on-campus use only) (1984 to present) The Sport Psychologist (on-campus use only) (1987 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

  Finding Online Journal Articles using EBSCO Databases for Communication Studies, with additional information for concurrent students (14:54 min. running time)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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.

• Credible Websites

  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. MLA Style Center
  • 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
  SPRING 2021
  E-BOOKS

  E-books can be found in EBSCO in the eBooks Collection, or by searching for the title in our Library Search. From off campus, use StarID and password to access.
  
  PSYCHOLOGY
  How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine, For Now
  Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, And Do
  Definitive Book of Body Language
  Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls

  HISTORY
  Walking the Old Road: A People’s History of Chippewa City and The Grand Marais Anishinaabe
  Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, And Politics
  How to Be an Antiracist
  Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist
  Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
  Black Women's History of the United States
  Heavy: An American Memoir
  Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
  America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s
  Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Hannie Schaft and the Oversteegen Sisters, Teenaged Saboteurs and Nazi Assassins 
  Braiding Sweetgrass
  As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance
  Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power
  His Truth is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
  Peculiar Imbalance: The Fall and Rise of Racial Equality in Early Minnesota:
  Voices of Rondo: Oral Histories of Saint Paul's Historic Black Community
  Degrees of Freedom: The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota, 1865-1912 

  ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES, ECOLOGY
  Environmental Justice in A Moment of Danger.
  Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming.

  SOCIAL SCIENCES
  Give People Money: How A Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, And Remake the World
  Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion--And the Future of Clothes
  What Color Is Your Parachute? 2020: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers
  Affirmative Action Puzzle: A Living History from Reconstruction to Today
  Cryptocurrency Mining for Dummies
  Facebook: The Inside Story
  Digital Minimalism: Choosing A Focused Life in A Noisy World
  How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
  Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
  Moving Up Without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility
  Ordinary Insanity: Fear and The Silent Crisis of Motherhood in America
  Psychology of Women Under Patriarchy
  Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
  Black and The Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, And Injustice in America’s Law Enforcement
  Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
  After Redlining: The Urban Reinvestment Movement in the Era of Financial Deregulation
  Your Happiness Was Hacked: Why Tech is Winning the Battle to Control Your Brain, and How to Fight Back
  Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
  Modern Slavery: A Reference Handbook
  White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
  Refugee Crises, 1945-2000: Political and Societal Responses in International Comparison

  POLITICAL SCIENCE
  How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
  Refuge Beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers
  American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction
  Undocumented Americans
  Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right
  Cruelty as Citizenship: How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy

  LAW
  First: Sandra Day O'Connor.
  Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for A More Unjust America.
  Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration.

  EDUCATION
  Teach Yourself How to Learn: Strategies You Can Use to Ace Any Course at Any Level
  Academic Advising: A Comprehensive Handbook
  Reading, Writing, and Racism: Disrupting Whiteness in Teacher Education and in the Classroom

  MUSIC
  Beatles and Sixties Britain
  Itake-Over: The Recording Industry in the Streaming Era

  LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
  Prison Truth: The Story of The San Quentin News
  Alpha: Abidjan To Paris; Translated by Sarah Adrizzone
  Testaments
  Sweat
  Water Dancer: A Novel
  Minority Women and Western Media: Challenging Representations and Articulating New Voices
  Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market; 2020
  Writer's Market; 2020
  Feel Puma: Poems
  Land of Big Numbers

  SCIENCE
  How We Teach Science: What’s Changed, And Why It Matters.
  Vanishing Ice: Glaciers, Ice Sheets, And Rising Seas.
  Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator.
  Field Notes from An Unintentional Birder: A Memoir.
  All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

  MEDICINE
  Crisis in The Red Zone: The Story of The Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, And of The Outbreaks to Come
  Flu Hunter: Unlocking the Secrets of a Virus
  What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, And Hope in An American City
  Authentic Aromatherapy: Essential Oils and Blends for Health, Beauty, And Home
  Woman's Ayurvedic Herbal: A Guide for Natural Health and Well-Being
  Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live
  Sound and Noise: A Listener's Guide to Everyday Life

  SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
  Chemical Age: How Chemists Fought Famine and Disease, Killed Millions, and Changed Our Relationship with the Earth
  Digital Preservation in Libraries: Preparing for A Sustainable Future
  
  

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• CONTACT THE LIBRARY

  Library Hours
  Coon Rapids 763-433-1150
  Cambridge 763-433-1950
  EMAIL THE LIBRARY 
  
  BOOK AN APPOINTMENT

  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
  763-433-1125
  AS, Anoka-Ramsey Community College