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Library evaluates full-text database services
Wednesday,
April 8, 1998
ROBERT SCHOENBERG
Staff Writer
Starting April 7 and running through most of spring term, the
library will be running a test and evaluation of four full-text data
base services of which one will be chosen for use by students and
faculty on the campus computer system.
Available at the library will be toe database providers, Pro-Quest,
Electric Library, Information Access Company (IAC), and Elton
B. Stevens Company (EBSCO).
Shannon Stiles, reference librarian, said, “The database
providers we are testing have full text articles ranging from
popular magazines to scholarly and professional journals.”
The database can be accessed through any of the on-cam
pus computers and at home by students
taking part in the distance learning pro
grams.
The data services sometimes provide more
than just toe full text of articles. They can also
provide summaries and citations of journals and
magazines that they don’t have in their services.
Stiles said, “EBSCO says that it has
cess to.
“It's not intended as areplacementfor magazines currently sub
scribed to. In many instances toe article provided by toe services
are text only and do not include charts, graphs, photos or adver-
librarian, has been toe person contacting the database providers
and arranged for the free trial at the library.
Evaluation forms are available in toe library that students and
faculty can fill out to help toe librarians choose which service we
tiscmenfs.”
“The college is moving toward providing distafice edu
cation to sibdents, providing online^burses. We need to
will use.
“We have a wonderful opportunity this term," shesaid. "Never
again, as far as I can see, will we have four full-text databases
be able to
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‘We have recognized that toe assignments
services side by side, available to our patrons."
that instructors are giving their students are
requiring them to go beyond whabwe have
traditionally have in toe library,” $he added.
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Co-Editors-in-Chief: Christina Mueller and
1000 journals and magazines in full text,
but they also have as part of their data
base 3000 more journals and magazines
Feature Editor: Joel P. Shempert
that are available in summery or just the
Sports Editor: John Thorbum
citation. If we have an index that will give
us access to titles of articles in publica
tion then we can go about trying to locate
the full text. Using the same tools we al
ways use, checking to see if PSU has it,
checking to see if the University of Or
egon has it, we can do inter-library loans.”
The library budget allows for only one of toe
services to be purchased, so at this time toe four
services are undergoing evaluation by toe li
brary staff as well as students and faculty who
use any of toe four now online on toe computer
A&E Co-Editors: Jared Bezzant and Alex Mahan
system.
“We want to get as much feedback as we can
on toe usefulness of each service,” said Stiles.
The main purpose of toe full-text database is
to provide access to magazines and journal ar
ticles that students otherwise wouldn’t have ac-
Brad Zimmerman (ext. 2576)
Assistant News Editor: Jeremy Stallwood
Business Manger: Mairin-Anne Moore
(ext. 2578)
Copy Editor: Mike Garcia
Photo Editor: Timothy Bell
Cartoonist: Mark Hoffman
Advisor: Linda Vogt (ext. 2310)
Secretary: JoAnne Gale
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Spring terin Authors’ Night will fea
ture Portland area writers Tom
Spanbauer, Joanna Rose and Chuck
Palahniuk. The authors will discuss
and read their work Wednesday, April
29, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. in the
McLoughlin Hall Theater.
Garden plots are now being reserved
for the annual Green FingersCommu-
nity Garden Project. The college pre
pares the land, assigns gardens and wa
ters them twice a week. First pick on
plots goes to gardeners who partici
pated the previous year. The gardens
open in mid-May and remain open
through mid-November. For more in
Synesthesia Writing Competition:
The on campus literary magazine, Synes
thesia, is holding a writing competition.
Students may submit as many as three po
ems and one short story, up to 2,000words,
with a cover sheet that includes student’s
name, address, phone, social security num
ber and a one-paragraph biography. On
the entry itself, include only the social se
curity number on each page. Deadline is
April 15 at 5 p.m. Turn submissions in to
Kate Gray’s office, M232. Include a hard
copy and a copy on disk.
The college’s first annual Easter
Egg Hunt, sponsored by ASG, will
formation or to register for a plot, call
the Community Recreation Office at
be held on April 11, from 11 a.m. to 1
p.m. Children from birth to sixth grade
are welcome to attend the event at the
ext. 2211.
Community Center.
The Clackamas Collegiate Review,
Student Government and Instruc
tional Services sponsor College Con
versation, students chance to “ask the
Staff Writers and Production:
Laura Armstrong, Kristina Brooks, Adam Crum, Kim Harney,
Toni McMichael, and Robert Schoenberg.
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a journal of academic thought, invites
submissions from students. Political,
social, philosophical non-fiction top
ics are welcome. MLA citation rules
must be followed. Turn papers in to
the office of Dean Darris, M214. The
president” questions and bring up con
cerns. The conversation with Presi
dent John Keyser will be in CC127
Tuesday, April 14, 12-1:30 p.m.
deadline is April 16.
Chartwells
Invites you to lunch.
Or dinner or breakfast.
Open 7 a.m.-8 p.m. for all your needs.
The place to eat on campus!
Wednesday, April 8, 1998