Ferguson's Career Guidance Center has been enhanced with an exciting new feature: a career interest assessment tool that helps users explore occupations and industries that best match their personal interests. With this essential career discovery feature, users can identify and understand what interests them and then apply that knowledge toward choosing an occupation. The Career Interest Assessment tool is perfect for students exploring possible future occupations and for professionals seeking a new career path. The Career Interest Assessment tool is based on the O*Net® Interest Profiler™. By asking users to respond to a series of statements, it ranks the importance of six key interest categories: Artistic, Conventional, Enterprising, Investigative, Realistic, and Social. For each interest area, lists of related industries and occupations are provided, with links to information about each one from Ferguson's Career Guidance Center's database of more than 3,400 jobs and 94 industry articles.
Key features include:
Detailed 180-item questionnaire ranks each user's personal interest areas
Users may adjust their answers or retake the assessment at any time
Users may save their assessment results
Lists of related industries and occupations provide a springboard for career exploration.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Additions to Credo's General Reference Collection
Credo's General Reference collection continues to grow each month and now has nearly 500 titles. The following well-regarded titles were added in May:
The 9/11 Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO in History
Dictionary of Microbiology & Molecular Biology, Wiley in Science
A Dictionary of Travel and Tourism Terminology, CABI in Social Sciences
Encyclopedia of Energy, Elsevier Science & Technology in Science
Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications, Elsevier Science & Technology in Social Sciences
Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History, ABC-CLIO in History
Key Concepts in Critical Social Theory, Sage UK in Social Sciences
The library's link to Credo is http://www.xreferplus.com/home.do
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Historic Newsreels
This month, Films Media Group has added over 250 historic newsreels from United News to the FMG Digital Library. Focusing on World War II, these films offer an intriguing glimpse into American life during turbulent times. Useful as a primary source for historical and cultural research, each newsreel is segmented by subject for convenient searching and viewing, and can be integrated into custom playlists just like video content currently in your collection.
Titles are available immediately: in the "View By Subject" bar, click on the link "Archival Films & Newsreels" to browse over 1,200 newsreel segments, or use Advanced Search for keyword searches by selecting "Archival Films & Newsreels" in the "Subject" drop-down menu.
More archival film footage and newsreels will be available to subscribers soon.
FMG is available linked from the Library homepage at http://academics.tctc.edu/lynx
Titles are available immediately: in the "View By Subject" bar, click on the link "Archival Films & Newsreels" to browse over 1,200 newsreel segments, or use Advanced Search for keyword searches by selecting "Archival Films & Newsreels" in the "Subject" drop-down menu.
More archival film footage and newsreels will be available to subscribers soon.
FMG is available linked from the Library homepage at http://academics.tctc.edu/lynx
Thursday, May 6, 2010
State Library Publishes Day in the Life Report
(TCTC contributed our stats of March 30, 2010)
COLUMBIA, S.C. – South Carolina Common Cause, a group of librarians and representatives of South Carolina’s major library organizations united in concern for the support and progress of libraries of all kinds, presents this report to create awareness of the astonishing growth in library usage in this time of economic recession. David Goble, Director of the South Carolina State Library and founding member of the group, called for a shared effort from all of the State’s libraries to gather information about library services. Goble’s vision endorses a collaborative effort to improve library conditions for all.
According to Goble, “Nothing is as important to a free society as the provision of information to all who need it, young and old. South Carolina libraries, working together with a common interest and a common goal, can ensure the future of free access to information, to literature, and to library services. This survey demonstrates the power of libraries to meet the needs of South Carolina citizens, even in a single day.”
The results of the survey revealed that in one day, 162,760 people visit South Carolina libraries. A total of 408 of South Carolina’s K-12, public, academic, and special libraries responded to the survey.
The report is published on the South Carolina State Library’s web site: http://www.statelibrary.sc.gov/docs/newsroom/prdocs/day_in_the_life_2010.pdf. For more information, contact David Goble, Director of the South Carolina State Library at 803-734-8656 or dgoble@statelibrary.sc.gov.
COLUMBIA, S.C. – South Carolina Common Cause, a group of librarians and representatives of South Carolina’s major library organizations united in concern for the support and progress of libraries of all kinds, presents this report to create awareness of the astonishing growth in library usage in this time of economic recession. David Goble, Director of the South Carolina State Library and founding member of the group, called for a shared effort from all of the State’s libraries to gather information about library services. Goble’s vision endorses a collaborative effort to improve library conditions for all.
According to Goble, “Nothing is as important to a free society as the provision of information to all who need it, young and old. South Carolina libraries, working together with a common interest and a common goal, can ensure the future of free access to information, to literature, and to library services. This survey demonstrates the power of libraries to meet the needs of South Carolina citizens, even in a single day.”
The results of the survey revealed that in one day, 162,760 people visit South Carolina libraries. A total of 408 of South Carolina’s K-12, public, academic, and special libraries responded to the survey.
The report is published on the South Carolina State Library’s web site: http://www.statelibrary.sc.gov/docs/newsroom/prdocs/day_in_the_life_2010.pdf. For more information, contact David Goble, Director of the South Carolina State Library at 803-734-8656 or dgoble@statelibrary.sc.gov.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Films on Demand
Needing to understand a subject and want something other than a book? Then look at our new database, Films on Demand. Instantly watch thousands of videos--and tens of thousands of video segments--across all subject fields. See our home page for direct links to specific collections. Or go to Films on Demand website. As a reminder, if you are off-campus, you will need to enter your T number.
Monday, March 22, 2010
GeoSocial Apps
Questions about geosocial apps: See Stephen's Lighthouse at http://stephenslighthouse.com/ March 21, 2010 entry which discusses geosocial apps. He discusses:
1. Foursquare
(Works for iPhones, Blackberries, Androids)
2. Gowalla
(Works for iPhones, Blackberries, Androids, Palm)
3. Loopt
(Works for iPhones, Blackberries, Androids – US phone numbers only)
The apps are good for:
1. finding friends in close proximity to where you are – serendipitously. Hey, these are apps that have the potential to increase your face to face interactions!
2. getting coupons (and ads about sales and specials) in context that match the shops you’re in or near – like Starbucks, Lord & Taylor, or whatever.
3. finding new restaurants, bookstores and coffee shops nearby.
4. being told your books you have on hold are ready when you’re in the vicinity of your library!
5. finding your local library and programming.
6. figuring out how to get through the huge ALA, SLA or SXSW/NXNW conferences.
7. finding events in your area.
1. Foursquare
(Works for iPhones, Blackberries, Androids)
2. Gowalla
(Works for iPhones, Blackberries, Androids, Palm)
3. Loopt
(Works for iPhones, Blackberries, Androids – US phone numbers only)
The apps are good for:
1. finding friends in close proximity to where you are – serendipitously. Hey, these are apps that have the potential to increase your face to face interactions!
2. getting coupons (and ads about sales and specials) in context that match the shops you’re in or near – like Starbucks, Lord & Taylor, or whatever.
3. finding new restaurants, bookstores and coffee shops nearby.
4. being told your books you have on hold are ready when you’re in the vicinity of your library!
5. finding your local library and programming.
6. figuring out how to get through the huge ALA, SLA or SXSW/NXNW conferences.
7. finding events in your area.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Women and Social Movements, Scholar's Edition
March is Women’s History month. Alexander Street Press has madeand to celebrate, Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1600-2000, Scholar's Edition, freely accessible for the entire month. Click http://wass.alexanderstreet.com for access.
A mainstay of women’s history scholarship and teaching in universities worldwide, this online collection is edited by Professors Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin of SUNY Binghamton. This extensive collection of primary historic documents, books, images, scholarly essays, teaching tools, and book and Web site reviews documents the history of women’s activism in public life, and is one of the most heavily visited resources for women’s studies and for U.S. history on the Web. Organized around document projects written by leading scholars, the collection is a powerful research and classroom tool designed to help users develop the skills needed to analyze primary documents and conduct research. Document projects are organized around interpretive questions, each with 20-50 primary documents that address the question.
A mainstay of women’s history scholarship and teaching in universities worldwide, this online collection is edited by Professors Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin of SUNY Binghamton. This extensive collection of primary historic documents, books, images, scholarly essays, teaching tools, and book and Web site reviews documents the history of women’s activism in public life, and is one of the most heavily visited resources for women’s studies and for U.S. history on the Web. Organized around document projects written by leading scholars, the collection is a powerful research and classroom tool designed to help users develop the skills needed to analyze primary documents and conduct research. Document projects are organized around interpretive questions, each with 20-50 primary documents that address the question.
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