Spring break ends

A warm welcome back to campus from the Library staff


On your way into the Library, check out the new display in the foyer, featuring the dozens of student workers who perform myriad, essential tasks at Stoxen Library.

Featured also is Mr. James Martz, volunteer in the fall of 2005. Jim Martz was a librarian at Stoxen Library from 1967-2001. He holds a Master of Library Science degree from George Peabody College, and an undergraduate degree from Dickinson State University. Thank you, Jim, for generously sharing your expertise and many decades of wisdom with your alma mater!

We are appeciative to all who work behind the scenes at Stoxen Library.

You asked for it, you got it

You asked for it – you got it! Many of you indicated that you missed our online listing of new materials available in the library. Well, it’s back. You will find it from our home page under Library Information, Services & Forms or follow this link http://www.dickinsonstate.com/lib_coldev.asp. The January listing is especially long as we are finally catching up with the backlog created by our new computer system. There’s sure to be something for everyone. Enjoy!

Award winning poet visits today's Business Policy classes

Award winning poet Ron Slate, on campus tonight for a reading (Beck, 8 p.m.) is shown here visiting Professor Debora Dragseth's Business Policy classes. His unique voice is informed by his world travels as a business executive. In more than twenty-five years in corporate business, he has been vice president of global communications for a major computer technology company and chief operating officer of a biotech startup.

New links on homepage

On the library homepage, we have added three links under the heading “More Helpful Links.” These three links are to either guides or tutorials on general research, plagiarism or copyright. Under the general research tools, there are tutorials for Academic Search Premier, CINAHL, Boolean connectors, evaluating the web, etc. There are also some general “this is how you do research” guides. The plagiarism list points to some really creative and “fun” sites that teach what is and isn’t plagiarism and how to avoid it. The copyright sites aren’t nearly as fun, but are extremely helpful if one is looking for copyright information. Although, all three categories have sites that are specific to particular universities, any of them have a wealth of helpful information. Kudos to Tyler Manolovitz (Library Evening Supervisor) for all his assistance in getting this up and running.