Campus Closed Friday, January 20

Chemeketa Community College is closed Friday, January 20 due to regional flooding. Please check the Chemeketa Web Site for further information and updates.

Ebrary books now downloadable

Ebrary, the platform for most of Chemeketa’s electronic books, has now made its books downloadable. Most complete books are downloadable in Adobe Digital Editions format, which works on most computers and readers. Adobe Digital Editions is free software that you can download and install on your computer

Chapters and page ranges are downloadable as PDF documents, which can be used on most devices. The PDF documents are compatible with the Kindle, which cannot use Adobe Digital Editions books.

To download books, you must first create a free account in Ebrary. You must be signed into your Ebrary “Bookshelf” to see download options. Now when you do a search in Ebrary, you will see a Download button in the results. Clicking Download will show you your options for obtaining portions or a complete book.

For more information and complete instructions on downloading from ebrary, see Ebrary Support.

Textbooks, and other frequently asked questions

One of our most-frequently asked questions during the first few weeks of the term is “Does the library have my textbook?” The answer is, maybe. The library does not purchase the textbooks for Chemeketa courses, but instructors may place copies of textbooks on Academic Reserve in the library. To see whether the library has your textbook, use the Course reserves search to look up your course number. (Example: ART205). Most textbook reserves check out on your ID card for two hours of in-library use.

For how to obtain an ID/library card, how to use library computers, and other frequently asked questions, please see our Frequently Asked Questions About the Library page.

Welcome, Yamhill Library!

The Yamhill Valley Campus made its debut this summer, and among the new facilities is a library.

In the library, on the second floor of Building 2, you’ll find helpful staff, materials placed on reserve by instructors, netbook computers to check out, and access to the library’s resources.

You can search in the library catalog, and use it request books and other materials from Chemeketa’s main library, from the Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library System, and from Summit (the catalog of the Orbis Cascade Alliance of college and university libraries). ” Chemeketa Yamhill” is a pickup location option when requesting materials.

In addition to printed sources, the library offers access to nearly thirty thousand electronic books and articles from approximately 22,000 journals.

Hours for the YVC library are:

Monday – Thursday 9 am – 5:30 pm

Friday 9 am – 5 pm

Saturday and Sunday closed

 

What’s new in the library?

The library has made some changes over the summer; most student computers have been upgraded. The biggest changes are in electronic resources.

Where to find them: http://library.chemeketa.edu/information/database.php Off-campus users will need their MyChemeketa user name and password

What’s new in organization:

Database page menu

Option to group databases by type of content (e.g., articles, books, images, streaming media)

Citation help includes a guide to which databases do citations for you, and where to find that feature

 

Databases added this summer:

Biography Reference Bank – access to Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated, Current Biography, Biography Index and Junior Authors and Illustrators….also includes images and biographical information from full-text articles

Britannica Online – searchable content of the Encyclopedia Britannica

ebrary College Complete – 23,000 electronic books in many disciplines.

Image Quest – searchable database of more than two million images; all are rights-cleared for non-commercial, educational use

JSTOR Arts & Sciences I and III. Archive Collections of nearly 400 journals, strong in the humanities. Title lists & info are available at http://about.jstor.org/content-collections/journals

Oxford Art Online – complete contents of the 34-volume Grove Dictionary of Art along with Oxford art reference resources, including The Oxford Companion to Western Art, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, and The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics.

Oxford English Dictionary – the standard reference, online

Oxford Music Online has the updated versions of the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition, as well as other Grove and Oxford reference books.

Coming soon:

            Safari books online – access to full text of books on computer-related topics.

Oregonian no longer available

                Sadly, due a change in vendors, the library no longer has access to the full text of the Oregonian newspaper.

Powerspeak, Chilton Library Are Here

CCRLS has purchased two new online products and made them available to its member libraries.

Powerspeak is a language learning resource that offers instruction in Spanish, French, German, Mandarin, and English as a Second Language. The courses are fun and use a variety of methods to enable learning.

Chilton Library (ChiltonLibrary.com) offers automotive repair information based on the well-known Chilton manuals. The easy-to-use menus make it quick to find your vehicle and zero in on the part you want to maintain or repair. Procedures are clearly outlined an illustrated.

Use the barcode from your library card to log in if you are accessing the resources from outside a CCRLS library.

Online Reference Resources Added to Library

Users of Chemeketa’s online database pages will see several new products there.

Oxford Art Online offers the complete contents of the 34-volume Grove Dictionary of Art along with Oxford art reference resources,  including The Oxford Companion to Western Art, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, and The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics .

Another Oxford product, Oxford Music Online, offers a combination of Grove Music online with several Oxford reference resouces.

Grove Music online has the updated versions of the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition , The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd edition.

Oxford Music Online also includes the full content of The Oxford Companion to Music, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, and the Encyclopedia of Popular Music .

One of the most used of all Oxford publications is the Oxford English Dictionary.  The OED is the most complete historical dictionary of the English language.

Each entry contains an etymology, giving the origin of the word traced through various languages. Definitions of the word are given in order from oldest to newest, and each definition is followed by a series of quotations using the word, in chronological order. The online version also features a Historical Thesaurus, where the user can browse through topics and explore the history of a concept.

Off campus users will be prompted for a user name and password, and can enter their My Chemeketa user name and password to enter the ebrary site.

20,000+ E-Books Added

The library has added over 23,000 electronic books to its collection with ebrary College Complete, a selection of books in multiple subject areas.  The books will appear in the catalog soon, but in the meantime it’s easy to search in ebrary by going to http://proxy.chemeketa.edu/sites/go/ebrary, or by clicking the ebrary link on the library site’s alphabetical list of databases.

Off campus users will be prompted for a user name and password, and can enter their My Chemeketa user name and password to enter the ebrary site.

New Databases Available Online at the Library

Newly online at the Chemeketa Community College Library:

•  Wilson’s Biography Reference Bank (provides access to Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated, Current Biography, Biography Index and Junior Authors and Illustrators….also includes biographical information from full-text articles and images)    
• Britannica Online (searchable content of the general Encyclopedia Britannica) 
• Image Quest (searchable database of more than two million images…all images are rights-cleared for non-commercial, educational use) 
  

Access these databases and more from the Chemeketa Library website at http://library.chemeketa.edu/information/database.php.

Food for Fines

The Chemeketa library will be accepting food donations as payment of library fines from Monday, May 23rd through Saturday, June 11th. Each food item equals $1 in library overdue fines. Most wanted food items include peanut butter, jelly, boxed cereals, canned fruits and vegetables, chunky soups and chili, dry pasta and pasta sauce, tuna and crackers.