News & Events

You can find the listing of new books as they are added to the library collection. We are also improving the library daily with links and resources. Look here for updates and announcements of our ongoing projects and acquisitions.

12/23/09: Newer and Better Search & Search Tools!

The library catalog search is now more powerful than ever. It can search the catalog via keywords, without limiting yourself to Titles or Authors. No need to take an extra step to find ISBN or a particular subject, just use the regular Keyword search and it will search all the information available for the items we have in the library. The new and more powerful search is also integrated into the FireFox and Internet Explorer browser search plugins. This will help you search our catalog without trying to find our website.

The installation process is easy. Go to our website: http://library.uwest.edu/ and follow the steps here, depending on your browser:

Firefox Search Toolbar

A customized library search toolbar and library search detector will help you get the most out of the library's resources. Download Firefox Extension.

9/14/09

Print directly from your laptop to the library's printers. No need to transfer documents from your laptop to a flash drive to print at the library. Download setup guides for Windows XP, VISTA, and guides for MACs.You can purchase more credits at the library, prices are available here.

8/28/09

Fall 09 workshops are here! Check here for details.

6/12/08

"Interlibrary Loan" is now "Document Delivery". In order to accomodate requests from on campus students and distance learning students alike, the name change reflects the ultimate goal of the library to bring documents to students as they are requested, regardless of source. Looking for a book or article that's not held in the library? The Document Delivery Service is here to bring that information to you.

3/27/08 Online Recall Submission

The library website can now handle your recall requests 24/7. Simply search for the book you want to recall, click on the link for book details, and following the instructions on your screen. No need to come down the library to fill out the form! We will notify you via email once the item is available.

Watch a short tutorial below:

1/9/08 80 Boxes of Books to the Books for China Fund

The library, in support of the Books for China Fund, has donated 92 boxes of duplicate and obselete edition books. The project aims to collect books from libraries with duplicate/discarded books and send them to libraries in China. Books from foreign countries are limited in many parts of China. This project aims to strengthen the library collections of institutions in China and help with the modernization of China, thereby promoting peace and prosperity in the world. (Revision 1/14/08)

8/24/07 ABI Inform Global - Electronic Database

You may select to search ABI Inform individually or search the collection of electronic databases as accessible through Proquest.


What is ABI/Inform all about? Here's the description from the source:

ABI/INFORM Global is one of the most comprehensive business databases on the market. It includes in-depth coverage for over 2,830 publications, with more than 1,850 available in full text. ABI/INFORM Global offers the latest business and financial information for researchers at all levels. With ABI/INFORM Global, users can find out about business conditions, management techniques, business trends, management practice and theory, corporate strategy and tactics, and competitive landscape.

Included in ABI/INFORM Global is ABI/INFORM Archive. This retrospective companion to ABI/INFORM provides cover-to-cover, full-images complete with illustrations and advertisements. The database contains complete runs of key business and management journals, providing a unique historical perspective on hundreds of topics, including corporate strategies, management techniques, marketing, product development, and industry conditions worldwide. Titles include:

• Academy of Management Journal
• Foreign Affairs
• Nation's Business
• Thunderbird International Business Review
• Journal of Marketing

Furthering our scope of content, we've signed agreements with major publishers including:

• Springer Verlag
• Sloan Management Review
• Sage Publications
• Palgrave Macmillan
• Oxford University Press
• MCB UP Limited (Emerald)
• Kluwer Academic Publishers

ABI/INFORM Global has expanded to include non-periodical content like:

• EIU ViewsWire--Coverage of business and economic events from across the globe
• Going Global Career Guides--Comprehensive overview for evaluating, selecting, and transitioning into a successful career in a foreign country
• ProQuest Business Dissertations--Access to over 18,000 full-text doctoral dissertations and master's theses
• Author Profiles from Scholar Universe--Broad range of author and institution information, with links to articles found in ProQuest
• Business Cases enhance the connection between library research collections and the classroom. There are over 5,200 documents available in ABI/INFORM from the following publishers: Ivey, Thunderbird, Idea Group, and Darden
• The Wall Street Journal, Eastern Edition--Full-text access to the premier business newspaper in North America, with backfile coverage to 1984
• Linking to Safari Business Books Online is the 'expressway to the best' for business users--linking the world's foremost business indexing to the top business monographs

8/13/07 UWest Library Search Plugin Debut

The library now has a search engine plugin for FireFox and Internet Explorer. In order to integrate the library experience with your research online, the library has made available a plugin for your browser. Currently, the plugin will search Title Keywords.

The installation process is easy. Go to our website: http://library.uwest.edu/ and follow the steps here, depending on your browser:





Now no matter where your research takes you, you can search on the library website instantly. You may also switch back to the default search engine in the same area.

We will be adding a generalized search (not just for Title Keywords) in the near future.

7/18/07: New Database: Philosopher's Index

The Philosopher's Index is a bibliographic database with informative author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in the fifteen fields of philosophy, published in journals and books since 1940.

Records cite journal articles, books, contributions to anthologies, and book reviews. Nearly 570 journals are cited, from 43 countries, in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Czech, Hungarian, Polish and many other languages.

Topics covered include: aesthetics, axiology, philosophy of education, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of history, philosophy of language, logic, metaphysics, philosophical anthropology, metaphilosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of science, social philosophy, and the philosophy of religion.

Explore the database now.

6/13/07: Renewal Policy & Online ILLs

The new policy at the library allows for one renewal. This allows books to circulate to a wider audience and the book you've been wanting to read won't always be checked out! Thank you for your cooperation.

In addition, from now on, you may request an interlibrary loan online by signing into your account. We are making sure the library can expedite your requests as soon as you have them, even when we're closed.

5/16/07: New Functions at the Library

Now you can renew your books from online, anywhere, anytime, just log in to your account and hit the renew button, it's that easy.

For students and faculty that search for Chinese books, maybe you will notice that you can search in Chinese and get both Simplified and Traditional Chinese results.

A student kindly brought up the issue that our online catalog doesn't seem to search for alternative authors, such as editors and translators, in our books. Now you can! Search for 'Kessler' under 'Author' and you'll get to see 4 entries that were not available before.

More improvements to come!

4/18/07: Workshop Videos

Slides and videos for workshops are up at the workshop page.

3/30/07: Library Workshops

Sign up for library Workshops! Short hour long workshops to help you find and work with your resources.

2/12/07: WorldCat does citations

WorldCat now provides a citation function to help patrons with their bibliography. Make sure your pop-ups are enabled for the site. Find the book in WorldCat and click on 'Cite this item' to find APA, MLA, Chicago, Turbian, and other formatted citations.

11/20/06: Dr. Maquet donates 1,100 books to UWest library

Dr. Jacques Maquet, professor emeritus of the University of California, Los Angeles, has graciously donated 1,100 books to our UWest library. Dr. Maquet holds doctorate degrees in law, philosophy, social anthropology, and literature. He is also a writer, his books include "The Sociology of Knowledge", "The Premise of Inequality in Ruanda" and many more. "Monastic Communities in Sri Lanka and in other national contexts in Asia" and "Sociocultural significance of Buddhism for contemporary issues in Asia" are amongst his various projects.

Dr. Maquet's books will not only improve our existing humanities selection, but since a significant portion of the donated books are written in French, they will constitute a new foreign language collection for the library. Patrons of the library will soon be able to peruse through these new books as cataloging is currently underway.

08/17/06: Compact Shelves Done!

08/17/06: Our new compact shelves are complete! Come check it out!

8/2/06 Check out our E-book: Encyclopedia of Religion

The e-book Encyclopedia of Religion is the second edition of this highly regarded encyclopedia, intended to reflect both changes in academia and in the world since 1987, includes almost all of the 2,750 original entries -- many heavily updated -- as well as approximately 600 entirely new articles. Preserving the best of the first edition's cross-cultural approach, while emphasizing religion's role within everyday life and as a unique experience from culture to culture, this new edition is the definitive work in the field for the 21st century. An international team of scholars and contributors have reviewed, revised and added to every word of the classic work, making it relevant to the questions and interests of all researchers.

04/15/06 New Article & Reference Database - JSTOR

The Scholar Journal Archive has been added to our online database. You can now search for your research topics. The JSTOR database is mostly geared toward older reference journals, not the current issues. However, if you're looking for older reference materials that cannot be found on the library shelves, this journal database can provide you with high resolution scans and PDF files.

Access to this powerful database is now available off campus, so you may conduct your research 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, anywhere with internet access. Just head to our library website and look under "Online Resources" or click on this link. If you need more help, drop by the library.