SuperSearch Launches!

Ever wish you had an easy button for library research? Well, your wish has been granted. On May 13, Twin Cities Library launched SuperSearch, a new search tool that will greatly simplify library research!
 
SuperSearch is a single search for articles, books, and more, and it enables you to:

• search articles, books, eBooks, streaming videos, assessment tests, and more all at once
• copy and paste APA and AMA citations into a reference list
• save searches and resources to your account
• organize resources into folders
• get email notifications when new articles on your topic are published

Watch the one minute video demo below -- before it goes viral. You can learn more about SuperSearch by reading the SuperSearch FAQs and SuperSearch Handout or view the SuperSearch interactive tutorial.
 
You can still access individual databases (e.g. Academic Search Premier) from the library website if that is your preference.

SuperSearch will be added to the Twin Cities Library homepage on May 13. Let us know what you think, so we can help you maximize this powerful resource.

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SuperSearch Quirks

As with any new product, you might experience some quirks and hiccups! Please let us know if you do and we will work to quickly resolve the issue. We'll list those issues here, and update you when they're fixed.

1. RESOLVED 5/17. Get Full Text error. You've found a great article and now you want to retrieve the full text. If you select Get Full Text, then "Get this article from....", you will get an error if you are using the browser Internet Explorer.
• Work-around. Use Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, or Google Chrome

April Snow Showers Bring....

May New Books! Come check them out.

• Punishing race: A continuing American dilemma / 2011
• Electronic portfolios: A guide to professional development and assessment / 2004
• The educational potential of e-portfolios: Supporting personal development and reflective learning / 2007
• Clean: Overcoming addiction and ending America’s greatest tragedy / 2013

Oh, and the DSM-V is slotted for release May 27th. 

TC Library will have a copy on Reference by the end of May.

2012M3 Semester Break

Library hours are reduced the week of Monday, April 29 - Friday, May 3. It's semester break and with the sudden arrival of spring, we librarians need to crawl around on the muddy grass looking for locusts.

PLEASE NOTE WE ARE CLOSED SATURDAY, MAY 4TH.

Hours:

April New Books

We just got our refund check from the government and let me tell you, was it a doozy!
So we bought you guys a bunch of new books. Here's a sampling:

• The invention of the white race / 2012
• Differentiation through Learning Styles and Memory / 2008
• Beginning interpretative inquiry: a step-by-step approach to research and evaluation /2012
• Integrative play therapy / 2011
• Police Crime Control Strategies / 2014
• Clean : overcoming addiction and ending America's greatest tragedy / 2013
• Virtual Team Success: A Practical Guide for Working and Leading From a Distance / 2010
• Learning ACT: An acceptance and commitment therapy skills-training manual for therapists / 2007
• Sexual offending and mental health: Multidisciplinary management in the community / 2008
• Treatment plans and interventions for depression and anxiety disorders / 2012
• Every officer is a leader: Coaching leadership, learning, and performance in justice, public safety / 2006
• The Criminology of Place: Street Segments and Our Understanding of the Crime Problem / 2012
• Putting Crime in its Place: Units of Analysis in Geographic Criminology / 2009
• Decoding the ethics code: A practical guide for psychologists / 2013
• Advanced methods for conducting online behavioral research / 2010
• Make your brain smarter: Increase your brain's creativity, energy, and focus / 2013
• Lean in: Women, work, and the will to lead / 2012

Search for these book in our library catalog. Sorry - it's been a super busy month so I'm not going to link to each record. Alas, how I've spoiled you in the past.

P.S. We also bought you an awesome new single search product called SuperSearch. Look for more information about it coming next month!

Roller Derby in the Library

We got new computer chairs in the library! They are beneficial for students' postures and for conducting chair races after hours. They also saved one librarian's back from having to carry weeded older editions of super-heavy nurse anesthesia texts. Come and have a seat.

National Poetry Month

It's National Poetry Month, and TC Library is getting in on the action! Check out our April book display for an abundance of poetry.
Actually, in our whole print collection, I could only find eight books that feature and/or focus on poetry. (Not part of our academic offerings or collection development policy.) So - to make up for this outrageous hole in our collection, I wrote you a poem.

What does TC Library not have?

Books with poetry and rhyme!

Instead we own books on therapy 
and management and crime.  

So if you want a book of poems, 

your routine from us must vary. 

Order some through ILL, 

or visit your public library.

We also have a bunch of poetry books in our eBook database. POETRY SLAM STARTS NOW!!!

Minnesota FoodShare

March is Minnesota FoodShare month and TC Library is excited to participate!

But actually, we participate year-round thanks to you and your generosity. You see, TC Library has a fun library-fine forgiveness program called Can Your Fine. This outreach program - the brainchild of Steve Swanson - is a library campaign that raises non-perishable food donations. Your donations go to the food shelf at Lutheran Social Services’ Center for Changing Lives, our next-door neighbors at 2400 Park Avenue.

How can you participate? Return an overdue book, donate three cans of food, and we will wipe the late fee off your library account. Can you be even more awesome? Return your book on time and donate non-perishable food anyway. It is Minnesota FoodShare month, after all!

Steve, Carrie, and Jane usually make the trek over to LSS about every other month with bags and boxes of non-perishable food items. Your donated food is distributed to Minnesotan families twice a month; over 150 households come to the Center for assistance. THANK YOU!!!!

Steve and Carrie gleefully dropping off some food items last summer. Hey Mother Nature. It's March 19th. Maybe you should start thinking about looking like this outside, instead of the white, wind-whipped tundra that is Minnesota today.