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

University Center Library Links

 Library Links for University Center Students:

Caldwell College
            Remote Database Access:
            http://libanswers.caldwell.edu/a.php?qid=441391
            General Information
           http://www.caldwell.edu/library
           Reference Desk:  973-618-3497
           Email: ask@caldwell.libanswers.com

Fairleigh Dickenson University
           Remote Database Access:
           http://view.fdu.edu/default.aspx?id=1850
           General Information
           http://view.fdu.edu/default.aspx?id=1841
           Reference Desk: 973-443-8516
           Email Form: http://view.fdu.edu/default.aspx?id=1849

Felician College
           Remote Database Access:
           http://www2.felician.edu/about/facilities-resources/library/library-services#off
            General Information:
            http://www2.felician.edu/library
            Reference Desk: 201-559-6071
           Email: library@felician.edu

Kean University
            Remote Database Access:
            http://library.kean.edu/raritan.html
           General Information
           http://library.kean.edu/
           Login for Librarians is available in Ref Log
           Contact: Chrisler Pitts by email at cpitts@kean.edu or by phone at 908-737-4613.
           Reference Desk: 908-737-4629
           Email Form: http://library.kean.edu/forms/webreflibrarian.htm

Rutgers
            Remote Database Access:
            http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/how_do_i/connect_from_off-campus
            General Information
            http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/
            Reference Desk (Alexander) 848-932-7509
            Email Form:   http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/help_email
            

Legal Research Refresher

Legal Research summary:



Legal citation follows the format 177 N.J. Super 244. The first # (177) is the VOLUME the student must go to. The letters indicate which set of reporters they need to use. The second # (244) is the page number the case begins on. If the citation looks like 177 N.J. Super 244, 246, the third number (246) is referring to a specific page number in the volume, so in this case, it would be making reference to a quote on page 246.

Abbreviations for reporters:

N.J. New Jersey Supreme Court Reporters (beige books)

N.J. Super New Jersey Superior Court Reporters (green books)

U.S. US Supreme Court Reporters (black books)

After volume 254 of the US Reporters, our collection changes to the “Lawyer’s Edition,” “L.Ed.” Lawyer’s Editions have their own volume numbers which are different from the Reporter volume numbers. If you are looking for a US supreme court case that is in, for example, volume 300, you need to find the Lawyer’s Edition volume that contains 300 US. On the spine, you will see the a large volume number (the Lawyer’s Edition Volume) and below that it will indicate which of the US Reporter volumes are contained in that Lawyer’s Edition volume.



Shepardizing:



If a student needs to “find a case that follows” or “shepardize” a case, they are looking for cases that came after the initial case and either upheld or reversed the decision in some way. This is done using the Shepard’s New Jersey Citations books. Each Shepard volume covers a specific range of both NJ Supreme Court and NJ Superior Court cases. The student needs to find the Shepard’s volume that includes the volume of the reporter for their original citation. When you open the book, the top of the page will say either New Jersey Reports or New Jersey Superior Court Reports, so they have to make sure they are in the section of the correct section of the book for the case they are Shepardizing. There are volume numbers on the top left and right of the pages. These indicate which volume within the reporter the pages cover. The bolded numbers on the page are the second number that appears in a citation, the page number. Below each bolded number is a series of case citations. These are the citations that follow that case. A student must then go to the NJ or NJ Super Reporters and look up that citation in order to find out any more information about the case (like the year it was decided). There are specific instructions for the Shepardizing question on Maria’s worksheet in the blue binder at reference that I mentioned above.

Printing Unofficial Transcripts

 If a student is trying to print an unofficial academic transcript from Lion's Den and only the first page is printing, try this:

Use Chrome to access the transcript in Lion's Den.
Highlight the entire transcript
Use Ctrl+P to bring up the print dialog box

The entire transcript should show in the print preview.