Library Resources
Today, news content seems to be everywhere on the Internet. That is, until you need that specific article for your class assignment. The reality is that, all too often, news websites are making it easier for you to find news stories, but then charging you for these articles when you want the full text. Penn…
The Libraries offer many online resources for your research needs. But not everything is online. What if you want a book or CD from the library, or a book that Penn State Libraries don’t have, or an article where you only found the abstract online? Penn State Libraries can help. The Libraries offer a delivery…
For many Penn Staters, the Lion Shrine symbolizes Penn State pride. Every commencement, hundreds of students put on their cap and gown and wait in line for photo opportunities with the giant limestone icon! It’s hard to imagine Penn State without the Lion Shrine! But in the late 1930s, when the shrine was first proposed…
The Penn State University Libraries and our Learning Design and Advising units teamed up to create orientation videos for the World Campus website. These introductory videos show you the breadth of services offered by the library, especially as they relate to students at a distance. You will learn about borrowing materials and how to get…
by Stephen Woods, associate librarian “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your front door. You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.” – Bilbo Baggins, from JRR Tolkien’s Fellowship of the Ring Ideas taken out of context can…
by Alice Whiteside, information literacy librarian with the Penn State University Libraries Are you working on a multimedia project for a class this semester or putting together something spectacular for the Sustainable State Video Contest? Many of you probably know that you can get articles (from scholarly journals, newspapers, and magazines) through our library databases,…
Many thanks to Rachel Schneiderman, Humanities Librarian for Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, Linguistics, Latin American Studies and Latina/o Studies at Penn State University Libraries for this helpful information on linguistics research. Are you in a Penn State World Campus course on linguistics or Ibero-American Civilization? Are you studying sociology, world music, anthropology, women’s studies or…
Many thanks to Marcy Bidney, Assistant Librarian, Head of the Donald W. Hamer Maps Library at Penn State University Libraries for sharing these great tips on Penn State resources for geographic information. Don’t stop reading this blog if you think maps or geographic information have nothing to do with your course of study. I’m here…
Thanks to the career librarian at UP Career Services, I learned a new way for Penn State students to learn about career paths using the Hoover’s Guide and LinkedIn. Here’s how: Step 1: Make sure you’re logged into LinkedIn. Step 2: Log onto Hoover’s Online via the link on the Business Databases page of the…
Many thanks to Daniel Hickey, business and information sciences librarian at Penn State University Libraries for sharing these tips on researching specific companies. Penn State has librarians that specialize in every academic discipline, as our information literacy librarian, Emily Rimland, mentioned in her last post. Oftentimes the in-depth research guides we create can point you…