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Anthony Arcangeli
Information Services Librarian
Louise R. Lester Foundation Library
Beaufort County Community College
5337 US 264 East
Washington, NC 27889
Essential library resources for learning, research, and creativity.
SEARCH: A-Z Databases
Catalog- is comprehensive and contains all available media formats/source types.
Databases- many contain subject-based journals (periodicals), which publish scholarly articles. Most scholarly publications are peer-reviewed. Some databases contain primary sources, labs, ebooks, and/or other digital media. Most databases require access using either your Blackboard login credentials or a library card.
LibGuides are librarian-curated websites featuring library resources and educational content intended for faculty, students, and other researchers. Guides can be either informational (guides about library research, resources, and services) or research (specific curriculum-based guides).
Tools for Researchers
- JSTOR Research Basics
Welcome to the ever-expanding universe of scholarly research! There's a lot of digital content out there, and we want to help you get a handle on it.
- ProQuest Research Companion
Build information literacy and become skilled in research! This award-winning, cloud-based information literacy solution guides students through research projects efficiently.
- MLA Style Center
Welcome to the MLA Style Center. Access tips and resources for MLA writing, research, and documentation!
- Credo Reference: Research Quick Tips
Learn and develop lifelong skills to find, evaluate and use information effectively.
- Library of Congress: Research Guides
Research guides to the Library's general collections of books and periodicals, as well as general subject guides prepared by Library of Congress reference librarians, are listed here.
- Library of Congress Classification OutlineUse this outline for finding and discovering items. Typically, this is used to navigate library content areas when "browsing the stacks".
Resources for News & Current Issues
- JSTOR Daily
JSTOR Daily is an online publication that contextualizes current events with scholarship. Drawing on the richness of JSTOR’s digital library of more than 2,000 academic journals, thousands of monographs, and other materials, JSTOR Daily stories provide background—historical, scientific, literary, political, and otherwise—for understanding our world. All of our stories contain links to free, publicly accessible research on JSTOR. We’re proud to publish articles based in fact and grounded by careful research and to provide free access to that research for all of our readers. - ProQuest SIRS Issues Researcher
Research the pros and cons of current issues and enduring social issues through full-text articles, multimedia, primary sources, government documents and reference materials.
ACRL Framework for Information Literacy
Information resources reflect their creators’ expertise and credibility, and are evaluated based on the information need and the context in which the information will be used. Authority is constructed in that various communities may recognize different types of authority. It is contextual in that the information need may help to determine the level of authority required.
Information in any format is produced to convey a message and is shared via a selected delivery method. The iterative processes of researching, creating, revising, and disseminating information vary, and the resulting product reflects these differences.
Information possesses several dimensions of value, including as a commodity, as a means of education, as a means to influence, and as a means of negotiating and understanding the world. Legal and socioeconomic interests influence information production and dissemination.
Research is iterative and depends upon asking increasingly complex or new questions whose answers in turn develop additional questions or lines of inquiry in any field.
Communities of scholars, researchers, or professionals engage in sustained discourse with new insights and discoveries occurring over time as a result of varied perspectives and interpretations.
Searching for information is often nonlinear and iterative, requiring the evaluation of a range of information sources and the mental flexibility to pursue alternate avenues as new understanding develops.