Library Tip: Job Searching

Looking for a job? Try our CareerWiki. (To view the wiki, click here or see the image below that shows you where the wiki is located on our library home page.)

The Twin Cities Campus Library has put together an online wiki, called the Saint Mary's University Career Guide, to help Saint Mary's students with job searching. Students and employees of Saint Mary's University can add links to jobs, career help, resume help, and anything else that will assist our students in finding and gaining employment.

Included in the wiki are resume tips and help, interviewing tips, multiple local job websites and postings, and cost of living/salary tools.

Because this is an open-access online tool, YOU can add your own tips, comments, interview or resume suggestions, and more. Meet other members of the site, invite your friends or classmates to join, and search for and view other wikis related to your field of study.

Take a look around the site—you may find some very helpful information, and perhaps the key to your next job!

Library Tip: Simultaneously search multiple databases!

Library Tip #2: Simultaneously search multiple databases!

Do you ever wish that you could search multiple databases all at once, thus eliminating the need to search one by one, through each database, to find the best information on your topic? Well, there is a way to do this through our EBSCO and ProQuest Databases.

EBSCO databases: When you go to a search screen in any EBSCO database, be sure to notice the line under the search boxes that says "in: Database Name". You can click the dropdown menu and choose multiple databases to simultaneously search! See the image below.

EBSCO databases include but are not limited to: Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, MasterFILE Premier, EBSCO MegaFILE, Mental Measurements Yearbook, and Tests in Print.

ProQuest databases: When you go to a search screen in any ProQuest database, be sure to notice the hot link under the search boxes that says "Select Multiple Databases." Select that link and you're taken to a page with multiple ProQuest databases. You can check the boxes next to the databases you'd like to search. See images below.

ProQuest databases include, but are not limited to: Criminal Justice Periodicals, ProQuest Education Journals, ProQuest Newspapers, ProQuest Psychology Journals, and Wilson Education Abstracts.

New face in the library!

The ever-expanding TC Library welcomes its 5th library guru, Anna Drennen. Anna is our new Interlibrary Loan Assistant. Swing by the library in the mornings and say hi. Or, order 40 books through ILL, to keep Anna on her toes! (Rather, please don't.)

Library Tip: Printing in the Library

Library Tip #1: Printing in the Library
Wondering how to jazz up your printing in the library, and save trees? Read on!

1. You can print on both sides of the paper by selecting File --> Print, and then selecting the Properties tab on the print screen. Click the box that says "Print on both sides."2. Wonder why your pdf won't print? Print pdfs is tricky; you have you use the buttons on the pdf screen. The buttons actually appear in the web browser window, so take a look around. The buttons also vary in appearance, but the "printer" icon is generally similar to the one picture below.
3. You instructor may occasionally place PowerPoint slides in Blackboard. These can be tricky to print, and even trickier to explain in a blog. Thus, if you have problems printing a PowerPoint presentation out of Blackboard, please ask the librarian at the reference desk for assistance. You can print multiple slides per page, as well, so be sure to request that printing feature as well.

Student Email Accounts

Students please take note: all online library correspondence is sent to your Saint Mary's University email account--not to your personal email account (hotmail, yahoo, earthlink, comcast etc.). This has been effective since early November 2007, in accordance with SMU's new policy of handling email accounts. Library correspondence includes (but is not limited to): 1. notification of when articles are available for your viewing online 2. notification of when books or print copies of articles ordered from other libraries arrive to our library 3. overdue notices 4. notification of when items on hold become available.

Database Access - Update

Access to databases from on campus has been restored. Until further notice, however, you will need your Saint Mary's username/password to log into databases.

Database access on campus

Access to databases from on campus is not working. From computers on campus, you are unable to access databases such as EBSCO and ProQuest. You should be able to access the databases from off campus. We will keep you posted about this issue.