Prepare to Meet...Your Spring Break!

We've got a week to get down to business and wrap up projects, or gather information for papers and presentations we'll be working on during the upcoming break. The problem for me is that the recent warm weather has been pretty distracting. I don't ever remember a Spring Break approaching when leaves were already sprouting on the trees, or seeing flowers emerging into full and brilliant bloom. I've always driven slightly south to get a feel for the weather we'd soon be enjoying.

I'd like to offer a couple of quick reminders about some library resources that can make your job a little easier. A word about Ebrary, our online book database with about 70,000 volumes. It's always been available from anywhere you have an internet connection, but now, Ebrary allows you to download an entire book to your computer and various other devices, where it will reside for two weeks, no internet connection required!

Another great option for finding articles is GREENR which stands for Global Reference on Energy, the Environment, and Natural Resources. I've worked with a number of students lately who are doing research in these subject areas who find that this database is chock full of articles from scholarly and popular periodicals, videos, podcasts, newspapers and more.

Remember that with most of the databases you can email articles to yourself, print them, even download them to a usb drive, which again allows access to academic level research without being connected to the internet.

So before you go out and smell the flowers, gather some great resources. It's your research bouquet from the NCMC Library!