News and Events at CUA Libraries

University Libraries open 9am – 5pm, Mon – Fri during August Intersession

August 5 – 24 (August Intersession)	Mon–Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
Mullen Library * Stacks close 30 minutes before the building.	9am–5pm	9am–5pm	CLOSED	CLOSED
All campus libraries * Physics Library by appointment	9am–5pm	9am–5pm	CLOSED	CLOSED

Please see Summer Session Hours for holiday and special collection hours and Campus Library Hours for more information. Here is a PDF of the Libraries Summer Schedule.

A new look for ALADIN!

As of August 1, 2007, the libraries will be rolling out a new interface for the ALADIN catalog and MyALADIN (library account information). We hope that the changes and added features will assist library patrons with their searching needs. If you would like to submit a comment or question about the new interface, please click here: http://libraries.cua.edu/form/contact.cfm.

Brepolis Medieval Bibliographies is now available through ALADIN.

Search the International Medieval Bibliography and the Bibliographie de civilisation médiévale simultaneously!

Brepolis Medieval Bibliographies

The International Medieval Bibliography is a citation index to the European Middle Ages (400–1500). Disciplines covered include: Art History, Classics, English Language and Literature, Medieval European Languages and Literatures, History, Archaeology, Theology, Philosophy, Arabic and Islamic Studies, Music, Theatre and Performance Arts, Rhetoric and Communication Studies. Coverage is 1967 – present.

The Bibliographie de civilisation médiévale (BCM) is a bibliography of monographs and select conference proceedings, essay collections, and Festschriften. The BCM covers over 40,000 titles from 1958 to 2005 and focuses on the Central Middle Ages with coverage to expand eventually to the Early and Late Middle Ages.

The International Directory of Medievalists is available in this package. The International Directory of Medievalists is the continuation of the printed editions and contains 15,000 names and addresses from over 70 different countries with their fields of study.

Use Google Talk to send an IM to a CUA librarian.

Mullen Library has added Google Talk to it's collection of instant message services through which you can chat live with a librarian. If you have a Gmail or Google Talk account add cualibrarian1 as a friend! We will continue to offer IM reference services through AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger and Yahoo Messenger as well. For more information please see Instant Messaging.

Big success on Food for Fines!

CUA Libraries would like to thank all students, staff, and faculty that participated in Food for Fines. Over forty people contributed twelve boxes of food, for a total of close to 400 cans. Emmaus Services for the Aging is very grateful for the donation, which will be used to stock their "Feast for All Senior Market". At the market seniors are given free credit to shop for items of their choice. The success of Food for Fines would not have been possible without the generous donations of so many CUA community members or the support of Mullen library and Campus Ministry staff. Thanks so much.

If you have any questions or comments, please drop us a line at http://libraries.cua.edu/form/contact.cfm.

Book Sale Returns to Mullen

Due to popular demand, Mullen Library is reopening its “Book Store.” Starting Monday, April 16, used books will be available in the Circulation area on the main floor, priced at 50 cents or a dollar. Exact change is required. New books will be added regularly, so stop by often.

Abbreviationes is a new database available through ALADIN.

Abbreviationes is a dictionary of medieval Latin paleography consisting of over 70,000 entries for looking up abbreviations. One can search by abbreviation for a word or vice versa. The advanced search feature allows for: case-sensitive searches, searches with wildcards in the search terms, Boolean searches, and fuzzy searches. Please use Internet Explorer browser to display characters properly.

Please read the Spring 2007 issue of CUA Libraries Online.

The Spring 2007 issue of the CUA Libraries newsletter, CUA Libraries Online is available.

Mental Measurements Yearbook is a new database available through ALADIN.

The University Libraries recently subscribed to a new electronic databases, "Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY)". This database contains the most recent descriptive information and critical reviews of new and revised tests from the Buros Institute's 9th through 16th print yearbooks. It covers more than 2,200 commercially-available tests in personality, developmental and behavioral assessment, achievement, education, speech & hearing, etc. Compared with the printed versions, the online version provides easier and more powerful keyword search function.

Please note, the print versions of MMY will still be kept in Mullen's Reference Reading room with call number "L103.4.P8B96M5". The 1st through 8th yearbooks will be ONLY available in the print versions.

WRLC Digitization: Archives Presents Images of CUA from the late 19th and early 20th Centuries

ACUA Photograph Collection

This collection includes photographic collections from the American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. These collections contain images and prints of the Catholic University of America buildings and grounds, faculty, students, and University community from different periods of it's history. So far, this collection contains images from the 1890's and 1917 - 1921; additional images will be continually added to this collection.

Literary Reference Center is a new database available through Aladin.

Literary Reference Center is a full text database that combines information from major reference works, books, and literary journals. The LRC contains: "full text for 26,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism, 140,500 author biographies (including 14,300 in-depth bios), 350 literary journals, 530,000 book reviews, 32,000 classic and contemporary poems, 13,500 classic and contemporary short stories, and 4,000 author interviews."

Search For Articles With Google Scholar

The CUA library catalog and many of the article databases CUA subscribes to are now accessible through Google Scholar.

If you are located on campus visit http://scholar.google.com and begin searching. If you are off campus you will need to set the preferences so that Google will show you the resources that CUA provides. Please go to http://scholar.google.com, beside the search box, click Scholar Preferences. Enter CUA in the text field next to Library Links then click on the Find Library button. Check the box in the front of our university name, then click Save Preferences in the lower right corner.

Within Google Scholar you may conduct searches by keyword, author and article title. There is also an advanced search with more options. In the result list, when you see Full-Text@CUA, that means we have access to the electronic copy for the article. Click on Full-Text@CUA , then click on the word Go under a database that is listed as having the full text. If the article is not available electronically or the result is a book you will see Resources@CUA. Click on Resources@CUA, then click on the word Go next to ALADIN Catalog (WRLC). This will search the catalog to see if the item is located at CUA or another WRLC school.

Google Scholar is good for conducting simple searches across a broad number of databases. For complex or in depth searching we recommend that you search individual databases through ALADIN. Also keep in mind that while many databases are represented on Google Scholar, those who do not participate in the SFX link resolver are not.

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MODIFIED: August-02-2007