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Faculty and Staff Delivery Service Available
Winter Quarter 2009 Alden begin delivery service to faculty and staff offices. What started as a pilot project in the fall has officially become a new service for faculty and staff. To have library books delivered to your office, follow this link and find out how to sign up: 
http://www.library.ohiou.edu/serv/faculty-delivery.html 
Document Delivery Service from the [...]

Library Workshops:
Interlibrary Loan & Document Delivery
Date: Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008
Time: noon – 1 pm
Place: Alden 323
Instructor: Marne Grinolds, Suzi Mingus, and Jason Whited
Grad students, if you’ve ever had questions about how Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery really work, this workshop is for you. We’ll walk you through the new interface for making requests and answer [...]

Library Workshops:
Database Alert Services
Date: Thursday, October 2, 2008
Time: noon – 1 pm
Place: Alden 323
Instructor: Tim Smith
Many of our databases offer alert services, which can automatically let you know about new journal articles that meet criteria that you specify. Notifications can be in the form of email messages or through RSS feeds. This workshop will help [...]

RSS feeds for library news, journal articles, and more are available. Visit http://www.library.ohiou.edu/serv/rss/ for information.

Library Workshops:
Database Alert Services
Date: Thursday, October 2, 2008
Time: noon – 1 pm
Place: Alden 323
Instructor: Tim Smith
Many of our databases offer alert services, which can automatically let you know about new journal articles that meet criteria that you specify. Notifications can be in the form of email messages or through RSS feeds. This workshop will help [...]

You can now find scholarly journal articles via Google. However, if you want to be able to read the articles online for free, you’ll need to follow this set of tips from Alden Library:
http://www.library.ohiou.edu/find/articles-google.html

Use this database to find articles on social gerontology, including the psychology of aging, elder abuse, society and the elderly, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
http://infotree.library.ohiou.edu/single-records/4551.html

Use this database to find articles on violence and abuse, including family violence, sexual assault, emotional abuse, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
http://infotree.library.ohiou.edu/single-records/4553.html

Library Workshops
Get a Handle on Your Citations with Refworks
RefWorks for the Social Sciences
Date: Friday, April 25, 2008
Time: noon-2 pm
Place: Alden 323
Instructor: Chris Guder and Wanda Weinberg
RefWorks for the Arts and Humanities
Date: Friday, May 2, 2008
Time: noon – 2 pm
Place: Alden 323
Instructor: lorraine wochna and Tim Smith
Come get started with RefWorks, a web-based citation manager tool [...]

Library Workshops
Grant Sources
Date: Thursday, May 1
Time: noon – 1 pm
Place: Alden 323
Instructor: Chris Guder
We’ll explore how to locate sources for grants, with emphasis on the Foundation Directory.
Pre-registration is NOT required. Just come to Alden 323 at the day and time listed above.