Library
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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.
Click MnLINK to search 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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Databases ARTSTOR: Art images - ArtStor Quickstart Guide
BREPOLIS: International Medieval Bibliography--(on-campus use only) Brepolis Guide
eHRAF: World Cultures eHRAF User Guide
EBSCO: Academic, Art, Business, CINAHL, PsycArticles, etc. EBSCO Tutorial
GALE: Academic, Opposing Viewpoints, Science, 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.
Historical Minnesota Newspapers
ProQuest Newspaper database ProQuest HelpJournals 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?
- EBSCO Journal Database Tutorial (an external link)
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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.
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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. For more information, see the Opposing Viewpoints Help Page.
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.
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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. In the reference section of the library you'll find:
- Encyclopedias 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. A search here can familiarize you with some of the different contexts within which your topic has been discussed in a discipline. Reference materials cannot be checked out of the library, but you are welcome to make photocopies or take notes.
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Your textbook introduces a topic to non-specialists and generally includes 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.
- Roam the shelves in the library. Books are categorized by the Library of Congress Classification system (LC chart), a subject-based alpha-numeric convention. In the reference section of the library you'll find:
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After using any of these resources, always double-check your citations against the most current published guide.
Style Guides
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
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
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NEW ACQUISITIONS
SEPT - OCT 2019
COON RAPIDSFEATURED WEBSITES
Digital Transgender Archive (DTA)
https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/
--international in scope, DTA seeks to educate and encourage collaboration between research institutions and grassroots organizations
--search by subject or mapGLBT Historical Society Digital Collections
https://www.glbthistory.org/online-collections
--content from the print edition of the Bay Area Reporter newspaper, the oldest published LGBTQ newspaper in the U.S.
--open access to the Linda Alband Collection of Randy Shilts Materials, Crawford Wayne Barton Papers, Marie Ueda Photographs, and the Gay Life Radio series.New York Public Library Digital Collections of LGBT Materials
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/lgbt-materials-in-the-new-york-public-library#/?tab=about
--“one of the most significant LGBT archives in the U.S.”
--archives from the International Gay Information Center, dating back to the 1950’s, the Gay Men’s Health Crisis and a selection of activist photographyVictorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive
https://shakespeareillustration.org/
--illustrations from 4 sets of Shakespeare’s works, selecting from comedies, histories or tragedies
--search by acts, characters, genre, location, play title and title page
--Licensed under Creative CommonsPRINT BOOKS
AFRICA
Democracy in Ghana: Everyday Politics in Urban AfricaANTHROPOLOGY
Being Indigenous: Perspectives on Activism, Culture, Language and IdentityART
Art After Stonewall: 1969-1989
The Art of Mesoamerica: From Olmec to Aztec
Drawing for Interior Designers
Photography: History, Art, Technique, by Tom Ang
BUSINESS
Barron’s Real Estate Licensing Exams
Coffee: From Bean to Barista
The Handy Accounting Answer Book
Investment Banking Explained: an Insider’s Guide to the Industry
Kochland: the Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in AmericaECONOMICS
Consent & Trade: Trading Freely in a Global MarketEDUCATION
The Home Education Handbook: a Comprehensive and Practical Guide
Let the Children Play: How More Play Will Save Our Schools and Help Children ThriveHEALTH, PHYSICAL EDUCATION, AND RECREATION
Open Water: the History and Technique of Swimming
Sports Injuries GuidebookHISTORY
Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War (donation)
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the Crusades
City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk
The Conquest of Ruins: The Third Reich and the Fall of Rome
Domina: The Women Who Made Imperial Rome
From Spinster to Career Woman: Middle-Class Women and Work in Victorian England
Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
The Hardest Lot of Men: The Third Minnesota Infantry in the Civil War
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
Koreans in Minnesota (the People of Minnesota series)
Making and Remaking the Balkans: Nations and States Since 1878
Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior
Nero: Emperor and Court
Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium
Scottish Queens, 1034-1714: The Queens and Consorts Who Shaped a Nation
Stalin and Stalinism
Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg: this is Our Territory, by Gidigaa Migizi
Sand & Steel: The D-Day Invasion and the Liberation of France
The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924
Women in the American Revolution: Gender, Politics, and the Domestic World
The World of the Crusades: An Illustrated HistoryINTEGRATIVE HEALTH AND HEALING
Rx for Hope: An Integrative Approach to Cancer CareLITERATURE
Black Indian: A Memoir, by Shonda Buchanan
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the Crusades
The Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English
Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares, a Memoir, by Aarti Namdev Shahani (donation)
History of Wolves, by Emily Fridlund (Two Rivers Reading Series Visiting Author Fall 2019)
How we Fight for Our Lives: a Memoir, by Saeed Jones (donation)
In the Country of Women: a Memoir, by Susan Straight (donation)
Jane Austen and Comedy
Like a Love Story, by Abdi Nazemian
My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction, by Arundhati Roy
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent
Of Latitudes Unknown: James Baldwin’s Radical Imagination
Queer Voices: Poetry, Prose, and Pride
Reading Homer’s Odyssey
Reconceiving Nature: Ecofeminism in Late Victorian Women’s Poetry
Self-Determined Stories: The Indigenous Reinvention of Young Adult Literature
Trans Love: An Anthology of Transgender and Non-Binary Voices
Tucker Lake Chronicle: 13 Months in the North Woods, by Joan Crosby
The Victorian World: A Historical Exploration of LiteratureMEDIA
Media Persuasion in the Islamic StateNURSING
Anti/Vax: Reframing the Vaccination Controversy
Content Mastery Series Review Modules: Adult Medical Surgical Nursing, Community Health Nursing, Fundamentals for Nursing, Maternal Newborn Nursing, Mental Health Nursing, Nursing Care of Children, Nursing Leadership and Management, Nutrition for Nursing, Pharmacology for Nursing (on reserve for students)
The Dying Experience: Expanding Options for Dying and Suffering Patients
Family Guide to Mental Illness and the Law
Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth
Rx for Hope: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care
Transitions of Care for Patients with Neurological Diagnoses (Nursing Clinics of North America series)
Understanding Mental Illness: A Comprehensive Guide to Mental Health Disorders for Family and FriendsPHILOSOPHY
The Assisted Reproduction of Race
The Dying Experience: Expanding Options for Dying and Suffering Patients
Ethical Veganism, Virtue Ethics, and the Great Soul
Finishing Our Story: Preparing for the End of Life
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus AureliusPOLITICAL SCIENCE
Democracy in Ghana: Everyday Politics in Urban Africa
Media Persuasion in the Islamic State
The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924PSYCHOLOGY
Biofeedback and Mindfulness in Everyday Life: Practical Solutions for Improving Your Health and Performance
Family Guide to Mental Illness and the Law
Fat Talk: A Feminist Perspective
Gender, Sex, & Sexualities: Psychological Perspectives
Let the Children Play: How More Play Will Save Our Schools and Help Children Thrive
Mindfulness for All: The Wisdom to Transform the World, by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Understanding Mental Illness: A Comprehensive Guide to Mental Health Disorders for Family and FriendsRELIGION
The Meaning of My Neighbor’s Faith: Interreligious Reflections on ImmigrationSCIENCE
Are We There Yet? : The American Automobile Past, Present, and Driverless
Bird Species: How they Arise, Modify and Vanish – also available open access at https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-91689-7
Grasslands and Climate Change
Microbiology: With Diseases by Taxonomy (donation)
Outbreak: Foodborne Illness and the Struggle for Food Safety
Rainforest: Dispatches from Earth’s Most Vital Frontlines
Tucker Lake Chronicle: 13 Months in the North Woods, by Joan CrosbySOCIAL SCIENCE
Climate Technology, Gender, and Justice: The Standpoint of the Vulnerable
Grasslands and Climate Change
Gender and Food: A Critical Look at the Food System
Gender, Sex, & Sexualities: Psychological Perspectives
Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth
Social Poverty: Low-Income Parents and the Struggle for Family and Community Ties
Social Sciences Research: Research, Writing, and Presentation Strategies for Students
You Don’t Look Like a Lawyer: Black Women and Systemic Gendered RacismSUSTAINABILITY
Climate Action Planning: A Guide to Creating Low-Carbon, Resilient Communities
Handbook on Household Hazardous Waste
Natural Resource Conservation: Management for a Sustainable Future (donation)
Urban Food Sharing: Rules, Tools and NetworksTHEATRE
Real Theatre: Essays in ExperienceWOMEN’S STUDIES
Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World’s Most Notorious Jewel Thief
Fat Talk: a Feminist Perspective
Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement
Fighting for NOW: Diversity and Discord in the National Organization for Women
From Spinster to Career Woman: Middle-Class Women and Work in Victorian England
Women in the American Revolution: Gender, Politics, and the Domestic World
Women’s Activism, Feminism, and Social Justice
Women’s and Gender Studies in India: Crossings
You Don’t Look Like a Lawyer: Black Women and Systemic Gendered RacismWRITING
How to Write Technical Reports: Understandable Structure, Good Design, Convincing PresentationCAMBRIDGE
Reference
Walker’s Mammals of the WorldHistory
Why?: Explaining the Holocaust
Gandhi: The Years that Changed the World 1914-1948
Vietnam’s American War
The Relentless Business of Treaties
Reimagining Equality: A New Deal for Children of Color
Chinese-ness: The Meanings of Identity and the Nature of Belonging
Enrique’s Journey
The Harvest of American Racism
My Grandmother’s Hands
Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching
The Chosen Ones: Black Men and the Politics of Redemption
Slavery in the North
Frederick Douglass: America’s Prophet
They Said No to Nixon
The Last Republicans
Smoketown
Dirty Doc Ames and the Scandal That Shook Minneapolis
Scandinavians in the State HouseRecreation
The Postmodern Joy of Role-Playing GamesSocial Sciences
Critical Statistics
The Business of Cannabis
Gichi Bitobig, Grand Marais
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Snakes in Suits
Getting a Life: The Social Worlds of Geek Culture
Appified
Boy Erased
The Remarkable Rise of Transgender Rights
All the Single Ladies
The Moment of Lift
A Seat at the Table
White Fragility
Regulating the Lives of Women
Fixing the Poor
The True American
The #MeToo Movement
Gender, Power, and Violence
Communities that Care
Compulsory: Education and the Dispossession of Youth
Homeward Life in the Year after PrisonLaw
The Schoolhouse GateEducation
Takeover: Race, Education, and American DemocracyMusic
Light Come ShiningFine Arts
The Little Book of Manga Drawing
The Anime EcologyLanguage and Literature
A Stranger’s Journey
Beasts at Bedtime
The Hollywood Jim Crow
Improv Nation
The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel
Blankets
American Born Chinese
Washington Black
The Guest Book
The Prince of Los Cocuyos
The Art of the Wasted Day
The Overstory
The Nickel Boys
The Lost Girls of Paris
Bridge of ClayScience
Climate Analysis
Sydney Brenner’s 10-on-10
Dragonflies & DamselfliesMedicine
Dying of Whiteness
Doing Harm
The Art of Mindful Relaxation
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
The Art and Science of Mindfulness
Essential Guide to Aromatherapy and Vibrational Healing
Chi Nei Tsang and Microcurrent TherapyAgriculture
Fresh from the Garden
Gunflint BurningTechnology
Reduce, Reuse, Reimagine
The I-35W Bridge Collapse
Space 2.0
Folk Masters
The Poison Squad
Save Me the PlumsNaval Science
Whaleback Ships and the American Steel Barge CompanyBibliography and Library Science
Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South
Muslims in Story
Digital Curation Fundamentals
Supplementary Information
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