VCL is now twittering …

or tweeting, or whatever.  If you’d like to follow our (more frequent) updates via the micro-blog called Twitter, please do so!

You can follow us at:  http://twitter.com/valibgw

Tests in Print Online now available!

A new database called “Tests in Print” is now available in ALADIN. This database, by EBSCO, includes information on over 4,000 instruments. In addition to test information, records in this database link to full-text reviews in Mental Measurements Yearbook, when available.

To access it, click on the ALADIN link above, log in, and then click on the subject category (under ‘Social Sciences’) for Tests and Mental Measurements.

Hopefully this will be a helpful resource for our off-campus dissertation students!

How do *you* want to communicate …

with the library, and how do you want the library to communicate with *you*?

The Virginia Campus Library wants to know, so we can tailor our communication options to best meet *your* needs!

To let us know, please complete this brief 2-question survey:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cjlnd0hFVnl5WUs5eHoyN1NPSGlPclE6MA..

Thank you, in advance!

6th ed. of APA Manual–coming soon!

The American Psychological Association will be publishing a new edition of its Publication Manual on July 1, 2009.

More details: http://www.apastyle.org/whatsnew.html

Homecoming 2009 @ the VCL!

Please mark your calendars for Saturday, May 2nd, the date of our second annual Homecoming Event. It’s a great opportunity to reconnect with classmates and faculty, network and socialize, as well as learn a few things! We are thrilled to have as our keynote speaker, Dr. Edward Gabriele, who promises to inspire us with his talk, “Understanding Research: Its Ethos, Its Passion and the Ground of Its Being.”  Dr. Gabriele’s biography

In addition, there will be workshops, and of course, food.

More details/agenda:  Homecoming 2009: The Spirit of Research

Please RSVP by e-mailing our main mailbox, virginia@gwu.edu, or by calling 703-726-8230.

Hope to see you there!

Gelman Library System launches new site!

The Gelman Library System has completely revamped their website, which now subsumes the Virginia Campus Library site. Please take a look & update your bookmarks!

http://www.gelman.gwu.edu/news/gelman-launches-new-web-site

The new VCL site is at: http://www.gelman.gwu.edu/virginia

[To access ALADIN on the new site, click on 'Articles & Databases.']

New guide for educational admin. students

A new research guide has been created for graduate students in the K-12 Educational Administration and Higher Education Administration programs.

It is available at: http://libguides.gwu.edu/edleadership

Please take a look! Comments welcome!

New ABD research guide

As a follow up to the HOL research guide, I’ve created a guide for those of you in ABD status (in higher education, human & organizational learning). This guide includes a tab/page on Electronic Theses & Dissertations and also lists retrospective databases for those of you doing your comprehensive lit reviews.

As always, your feedback is welcome!

http://libguides.gwu.edu/ABD

Dissertations & Theses @ GW

You may be aware of the ProQuest database, Dissertations & Theses (formerly Dissertation Abstracts from UMI). But did you know that you can now search a subset of this database that’s just GW dissertations and theses? Well, you can!

Once you click into the ProQuest dissertation database from ALADIN, you can then choose to just search GW dissertations. Just click on “Databases selected” at the top of the ProQuest search screen, and scroll down to Dissertations & Theses. You can then select Dissertations & Theses @ George Washington University (deselect the main dissertations database first). Once you’ve switched to that database, your search results will only include dissertations completed by GW students. (For example, you may want to view other dissertations chaired by your advisor at GW. You could also do a search on a general topic to see if other GW students completed doctoral-level research in your area.)

New research guide for HOL

I’ve created a research guide tailored to students in the Executive Leadership Doctoral Program in Human & Organizational Learning, listing those resources that I think are most important for research related to organizational learning, human resource development, etc. The article databases listed in the guide are linked directly to ALADIN resources, so all you need to do is log in, and you’ll be taken directly to that specific database.

Please check it out, and bookmark it for future reference:

http://libguides.gwu.edu/HOL