Clark College Libraries: News

Due to recent updates logging on to your summit account has changed slightly. The following steps will show you how to log in from the Cannell Library website: Step 1) Click on the “My Summit Account” link. Step 2) Click on the link that says, “Click here to Sign On.”   Step 3) Select Clark [...]

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Over the quarter break the Cannell Room on the first floor of the library has been updated to a Smart Classroom. This upgrade provides many features for instructors. One feature is a multimedia lectern fitted with a touch-screen control system enabling  users to draw on an image on the screen and project it for larger view. The system [...]

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It’s almost the end of the quarter and time is running out to request interlibrary loan books and articles from the Cannell Library for spring quarter!  Effective 6/11/2009, the interlibrary loan form will be unavailable until the start of summer quarter.  Students should ask a Reference Librarian about other options for getting books and articles quickly. Use the Ask a [...]

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Library fines are quick and easy to pay online using Cannell Library’s e-commerce system. If you have any problems please contact the Cannell Library at 992-2504. To pay your fines online follow these easy steps: Go to the Cannell Library homepage at http://www.clark.edu/Library/ Click on My Library Record / Renew Books in the top right [...]

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Textbooks we have are for 2 hours use in the library. Unfortunately, the library cannot afford to buy textbooks. If you would like a textbook to be available that we currently do not have, you can ask your instructor to provide a copy to place on reserve. Alternatively if you have a textbook that you [...]

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It’s the end of the quarter and time has run out to request interlibrary loan books and articles from the Cannell Library for winter quarter effective 3/12/2009!  Students should ask a Reference Librarian about other options for getting books and articles quickly.  Use the Ask a Librarian feature, call 992-2375 or come by the Reference Desk before the end of the quarter.  [...]

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Gale Cengage Learning free online resources now include biographies of women who have changed our world. On March 1, 2009, Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia—which includes over 1,700 biographies, 300 thematic essays, and 1,400 photographs and illustrations—went live on Jewish Women’s Archive website, jwa.org.

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The Cannell Library has a new crop of online encyclopedias available through the Gale Virtual Reference Library database. Check them out! Encyclopedia of Counseling Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology Encyclopedia of Global Health Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change Encyclopedia of Obesity Check back in January 2009 for these two additional titles: Encyclopedia of Drugs, [...]

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In response to student requests, the library recently purchased four Texas Instruments TI-84 Plus Silver edition calculators. Students may check out a calculator for 2 hours, for use in the library only. Ask for them at the Check-Out Desk.

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ARTstor images are available for use in presentations for educational or other noncommercial uses in the software environment of your choice. High quality digital images — large sized JPEG files — can be projected either in the ARTstor online environment or in a variety of offline environments such as OIV, PowerPoint and Keynote. Users can [...]

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