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FALL SEMESTER HOURS Constitution Day at the Library was a grand success! September 16, 2005: Constitution Day Panel featuring David Wagner, School of Law; and Jim Davids and Jeff Morrison, School of Government

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LIBRARY PRESENTS EXHIBIT OF REGENT’S EARLY HISTORY
HERE WE STAND – ON A FIRM FOUNDATION
by Donald Gantz, Special Collections and Archives

Regent Library and the Center for Teaching and Learning have created a digital exhibit of the early history of Regent University, to be available as a PowerPoint presentation on a monitor in the Library foyer beginning October 20.

Using documents and photographs from University Archives and Dr. Robertson’s recollections presented in recent chapels, the exhibit connects to Regent’s theme for the year – Here We Stand. The visuals and narration present highlights of the University’s early formation, campus, and buildings. It includes an aerial photograph of undeveloped land, an early map of temporary facilities scattered around Hampton Roads, the first convocation being held in an unfinished building, and the ground breaking for the $13 million library building, for which the funds appeared miraculously one month at a time.

But the foundation presented is more than land and buildings. It highlights the spiritual cornerstones of God’s step-by-step guidance in developing the vision for the university.

The exhibit is narrated by Dr. David Gyertson who has been involved in Regent’s development since the early years, initially as the first dean of students, later as President of the University, and now as Distinguished Professor of Leadership Formation and Renewal in the School of Leadership Studies.

Be sure to see the exhibit in the foyer of the Library building beginning October 20, and watch the streaming video of Here We Stand: On a Firm Foundation.

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Learning More About Library Experts
by Marta Lee, Assistant Librarian

On September 29, the library faculty attended an audio conference entitled "Library Experts: An Underutilized Online Learning Resource." The conference discussed how some universities make librarians part of their online and on-campus courses. Librarians, according to the presenter Michael Scheurmann, are a natural component to being part of college courses because they are able to address information needs that the courses bring to the forefront. Besides being highly educated and experienced in different subject areas, librarians know how to locate information quickly. They know which resources to best utilize for various research projects. They are able to quickly meet the information needs of students and end frustration.

Within the class, professors may establish "ask-a-librarian" threaded discussion questions to make it easy for students to make the initial contact with the librarian. Thus students have begun a relationship with the librarian that can last for their entire academic career. From this meeting the students have the needed contact for research assistance for the class that they are taking. In addition, they are able to ask questions regarding assignments, to find the best ways to search a resource and to eventually have some research guidance for writing that thesis or dissertation.

Not only do librarians fill the need as an intermediary between students and faculty but, they also bring their expertise to the classroom setting. Having a faculty-librarian partnership enables the students to build relationships and the librarian to better serve the students and collaborate with faculty. It also provides someone to ask questions rather than just the professor. Overall faculty/librarian collaboration in the classroom is a win-win situation for the faculty, librarian and student.

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Librarians Publish Article

The faculty and staff of the University Library congratulate librarians Marta Lee and Sandra Yaegle on the publication of their article “Information Literacy at an Academic Library: Development of a Library Course in an Online Environment.” It was published in the Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning. The article tells about the development and continued evolution based on student surveys of the Library’s Information Research & Resources course in Blackboard.

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Deeper into Databases

Journal Alert Services: How to Keep Up with the Literature in Your Subject Area
by Leanne Strum, Ph.D, Coordinator of Technical Services and Systems

Awareness and Alert services are a way to keep up-to-date with articles in your area of interest through regular email "alerts." Regent University Library provides access to “alert” services through its subscriptions to a variety of electronic resources. Alert services assist in tracking new publications and research in your area of interest. To set up an alert, you register your interest in a subject area. You will begin to receive e-mail notifications from publishers and journal vendors about pertinent materials, including hyperlinks to either the citation, abstract or full text article. If the text is not available online, you can determine whether the Library owns the journal by searching the library catalog or full-text journal title list, or complete an automated Interlibrary Loan request from our home page.

Regent University Library subscribes to a number of Indexes and Databases that make electronic alert services available to Regent University students, faculty and staff. This article will focus on EBSCO which provides access to the table of contents (TOCs) of new issues of journals as they appear. By using their email notification, you can keep up to date with the TOCs in your field from EBSCO journals. It is a simple process to set up an account.

Setting Up Your Journal Alerts Account

Choose the EBSCO database most related to your field. EBSCO databases available through Regent University Library include:
• Academic Search Premier
• Business Source Premier
• Communication & Mass Media
• EBSCO Online
• ERIC
• International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center
• MEDLINE
• New Testament Abstracts
• Old Testament Abstracts
• World History Collection
• PsycArticles and PsycInfo

From the Library's list of research databases click on “All Databases.” Choose one of the above databases. Most of these research databases will have a list of the journals they index that will indicate the database most useful to you for creating a Journal Alert.

To Create New Journal Alerts

• Open the EBSCO database that best reflects your interests.
• Logon at Sign into my EBSCOhost.
• Click on the Publications tab at the top of the screen.
• Find the journal title for the alert alphabetically or by doing a browse search.
• Click on the title of the periodical to open the information screen.
• Click on the Journal Alert link in the upper right corner.
• Fill in the form:
o Choose the length of time you want the alert to be active.
o Supply your email address and a subject line for the email message.
o Select the email format your prefer.
o Select the link you wish for your email.
o Click Save and then Back if you wish to select another title.
• EBSCOhost will now run the search as new issues appear and email you the results.

To Review, Modify, or Delete Journal Alerts

• Open the EBSCO database where the Journal Alert was set up.
• Click on My Folder on the upper right of the screen.
• Click on Journal Alerts to access the edit screen. You can now see a list of your current. search alerts. Switch the search alert button to off to discontinue the alerting process. Click on modify search to modify an alert.

Need Help Setting up an Alert?

For questions regarding registering or setting up Journal Alerts, contact a reference librarian at the Regent University Reference Desk at (757) 352-4159 or the subject librarian for your school. They can also arrange for a demo of this service or provide individual assistance in setting up “Journal Alerts.” For more information on journal awareness and alert services click on Journal Awareness and Alert Services.

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Library Services for Undergraduate Students
by Harold Henkel, Assistant Librarian

What are peer reviewed articles, and how do I find them?

In colleges and universities it is common for professors assigning research papers to specify that a certain number of references used in the paper must come from peer reviewed or scholarly sources. Although not exactly synonymous, scholarly and peer reviewed are generally used interchangeably to indicate books and articles written primarily for an academic audience and that have been reviewed by at least one expert in the work’s field to ensure that it meets certain standards of professional scholarship.

Finding scholarly and peer reviewed articles is easy when searching the databases. Simply select this limiting option on the search screen. Doing so will ensure that the database returns only citations from scholarly and peer reviewed publications. Here is the search screen from Academic Search Premier:

The scholarly (peer reviewed) option is circled. Nearly all databases offer this option on the “advanced” search screen. If you choose to limit your search to peer reviewed publications only, you may want to go back and run the search again without this limiter, since many of the most important and credible publications are not peer reviewed. By running the search a second time you will avoid missing some potentially valuable articles for your research.

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Book Spotlight--How to Succeed at Being Yourself: Finding the Confidence to Fulfill Your Destiny by Joyce Meyer
Reviewed by Fotini Kontos, Assistant Librarian

Joyce Meyer’s new book How to Succeed at Being Yourself: Finding the Confidence to Fulfill Your Destiny consists of 12 chapters that teach us how to become the best we can be in life and not be satisfied with anything less. The author gives biblical principles to go by and shows that we will never sense fulfillment in life unless we reach the goal of being ourselves. If we follow Christ as an example we will succeed in life.

First we have to accept ourselves. People who don't like themselves “suffer in their minds, emotions and in their social and spiritual lives.” Studying the Word of God teaches us how to accept and receive God's unconditional love. Only then can we accept and love ourselves, in a balanced, godly way, and love Him in return. This also allows us to be healed and love others.

God has a plan for each of us. We have to fulfill our destiny. We cannot use our weaknesses as excuses because God transforms us all and creates us anew. Confronting criticism and judgment by others becomes easier if we understand that we have to answer to God in the end. We should not permit our decisions to be controlled by other people's opinions. We have to be confident in ourselves. Meyer reminds us that we can achieve that only if we have confidence in Christ. We should not fear or be defeated by any challenges, troubles, or difficult times that come our way, because with confidence in Christ we will learn that they will pass and God wants us to learn from them. By not fearing we are free to develop our potential and can be all that God wants us to be.

Meyer tells us to be faithful and receive God's grace and mercy. She reminds us that God is a loving and merciful God. He wants us to be whole, and he wants us to know who we are. We have to pray persistently in order to fulfill our destiny and we have to be determined to succeed at being ourselves. How to Succeed at Being Yourself tells us how to be free by casting out our self doubts and to have peace with God and confidence in Him and ourselves in order to succeed at fulfilling the plan He has for us. The book shows us the way to see who we really are and to have the confidence to pursue the person we want to become.

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A Gentle Reminder:

Don't be this person:

Please use the proper receptacle for your beverage:

Thank you!

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