Video on publishing process

The graphics are corny but this is one of the best videos I've seen to describe how scholarly articles get published and end up in library databases. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/tutorials/idea_library/ . It's nice and short and could easily be shown in an English I class.

Talking Book & Braille Center

The RVCC Disability Services office is registered with the State Library's Talking Book & Braille Center.  Students with visual impairments can use their resources by visiting the Disability Services Office. 

Using Print-Friendly to print webpages

Recently when students ask for help printing "clean" webpages without ads, images, and awkward formatting, I've been recommending they use the Print Friendly and PDF tool at https://www.printfriendly.com/. It presents a printer friendly version of a webpage by removing ads and any unnecessary formatting and spacing, allows the removal of portions of text, and also offers an option to save the webpage content as a pdf.

Subject Headings for Special Collections

Below are the subject headings associated with our different special collections. You should be able to search these by subject to pull up a full listing of the materials in each location.

ROBESON

Paul Robeson Institute for Ethics, Leadership, and Social Justice Collection.

-- all titles should also has the following subject heading:

Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976.

-- media will also have one of the following local fields depending on the format:

RVCC DVD Collection.

RVCC Videocassette Collection.

RVCC Compact Disc Collection.



HIRSCH

Hirsch Holocaust and Genocide Studies Collection.

--media will also have one of the following local fields depending on the format:

RVCC Compact Disk Collection.

RVCC DVD Collection.

Hirsch Audiocassette Collection.

CD-ROM

RVCC Transparency Collection.

RVCC Videocassette Collection.



ESL

RVCC ESL Collection.

--all titles should also has the following subject heading:

English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers.

--media titles should also have:

RVCC ESL Audiobook Collection.

GRAPHIC NOVELS

GRAPHIC NOVELS

Reference help for nursing students.

I have created a research guide for helping nursing students. The guide is unlisted so it is not accessible through the 'Research Guides' tab, or in any other public way. The link is: http://library.raritanval.edu/sp/subjects/guide.php?subject=reffornurses and I will email this out to all reference librarians as well.

I've organized the guide by semester and class along with the requirements for resources, the assignments, typical topics that students choose, and faculty who usually teach the class in case you need to get in touch with them.

Students usually struggle with APA formatting and MS Word which I offer to help with  and give them a once over on their papers closer to the due date. You do not have to do this if you don't want to.

The big assignments for fall are for Nursing of Adults II (QSEN group project paper) and Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing (research critique paper). I have sample papers for these classes which I will have at the reference desk. They are NOT to leave the ref desk under any circumstances and students may not photocopy any of the sample papers. They can write ideas down when consulting them, but that is all. The sample papers are numbered- there are 3 sample papers for Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, and there are 5. Make sure all sample papers are back in the 'Nursing' binder.

Please don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions!
-Alyssa