March Book Madness - Championship Match

March Book Madness

CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH 

Voting March 30 – April 2 

 

Congrats to the 2 books moving onto the Championship Match for Ort Library’s March Book Madness 2017 tournament. 

 

The field has now been narrowed down to the Final 2:

Sherlock Holmes vs Murder on the Orient Express 

 

Voting for the CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH in the Ort Library’s March Book Madness begins today, Friday March 30.

 

The winner will be announced Tuesday April 3rd on the 3rd floor of the Ort Library. 

 

Vote for your favorite book to be crowned the Ort Library’s 2018 March Book Madness Champion. 

 

The library guide will have a tab for voting in the Championship Match and a tab that provides the results for the Final Four. 

 

The Guide can be accessed here: http://libguides.frostburg.edu/March-Madness18 

 

Good luck to the final two books as voting for the CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH begins! 

 

If you have any questions, please contact Theresa Mastrodonato at tmmastrodonato@frostburg.edu or 301-687-4425

March Book Madness - Final Four

March Book Madness - FINAL FOUR (Voting March 26-29)

Voting for the FINAL FOUR in the Ort Library’s March Book Madness begins Monday March 26.

We had some very close games during the Elite 8. It is now time to vote for your favorite book to move onto the Championship Match.

The library guide will have a tab for voting in the Final Four and a tab that provides the results for the Elite 8.

The link for the guide: http://libguides.frostburg.edu/march-madness18

Good luck to all the books as voting for the FINAL FOUR begins!

Frostburg Achievements Display

The Ort Library is pleased to announce the creation of a display to recognize the scholarly achievements of members of Frostburg State University.  Located in the main lobby on the third floor of the Ort Library, the display highlights academic publications and professional works authored, edited, produced, or created by members of the Frostburg State University community.

Library staff anticipate rotating the display annually to highlight faculty, staff, and/or student scholarship.  Although the current display relies heavily on FSU Professional Achievements booklets for its content, your submissions and suggestions are welcome. Please feel free to complete the form located at https://www.frostburg.edu/lewis-ort-library/userserv/forms/achievement/ or email libdisplay@frostburg.edu to share your ideas.

Spring Break Library Hours

The library will be operating on a shortened schedule during Spring Break beginning tomorrow, Friday, March 16, 2018. Library hours are listed below.

Spring Break Hours:

Friday, March 16 || 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday, March 17-18 || CLOSED
Monday - Friday, March 19-23 || 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 24 || CLOSED

Regular semester hours will resume on Sunday, March 25, 2018.

For questions or assistance, please contact the Circulation Desk at 301-687-4395 or the Reference Desk at 301-687-4424. The Library also offers 24/7 online chat reference through Maryland AskUsNow! at http://www.askusnow.info.

We wish you all a safe and happy Spring Break!

March Book Madness - Elite 8

Congratulations to all the books that made it to the Elite 8 during Ort Library's March Book Madness.

Make sure you vote for your favorites to move onto the Final 4. The Final 4 will be announced after Spring Break

 

The library guide has a tab for voting in the Elite 8 and a tab that provides the results for the Sweet 16.

The voting for the Elite 8 runs from Tuesday March 13 through Friday March 16

Voting can be accessed via the following link:  

http://libguides.frostburg.edu/march-madness18

Good luck to all the books as voting for the Elite 8 begins!

If you have any questions, please contact Theresa Mastrodonato at tmmastrodonato@frostburg.edu or 301-687-4425.

Explore these tools to help you manage your research sources!

Keeping track of your articles and other sources for research can become overwhelming at times.  Take a moment to consider some of the tools that are available to help you save information about your sources. Many of these tools will also be helpful when writing your paper through the use of Word plugins and assistance with citation formats*.

MyEBSCOhost

Through the library's OneSearch discovery service, you already have access to MyEBSCOhost.  By setting up an account, you can quickly save items in your search results for future reference. Your MyEBSCOhost folder can be organized into subfolders for different research projects and personal interest topics.  You may also set up search alerts and journal alerts to notify you when new items are found in one of your saved searches or when a new issue of your favorite journal or magazine is available! Learn more in the video at this link.

Mendeley

Mendeley is a freely available reference manager. You can quickly save your resources by setting up a Mendeley plugin for your browser.  You can also save or upload PDF copies of articles to your Mendeley account. Apps for IOS and Android are also available. You may also add a plug-in for Microsoft Word to automatically insert your in-text citations and update your reference list as you compost your paper!

Zotero

Another free reference manager is Zotero, which has many of the same features as Mendeley. It is made by Mozilla, and works exclusively with the Mozilla Firefox browser.

Zotero Quick Start Guide: https://www.zotero.org/support/quick_start_guide

And more!

The managers listed above are free, but there are also subscription-based tools that you may also be interested in exploring, such as:

• ReadCube - https://www.readcube.com/
• EndNote - http://www.endnote.com/
• Refworks - https://www.refworks.com

It is worth all of these to determine which tools fit best with your needs and your working style. It may take some time to get used to using these tools, but once you become accustomed to them, you may find that your research and writing process have become much less frustrating!

Good luck, and happy researching!

* A word of caution about using any of these tools to help with citing. While the formatting assistance is a great help, none of these tools are perfect in creating correct citations. It is important to review the citations yourself and adjust them where needed. The library has citation style manuals available, and of course there are several online resources that are helpful with this!

March Book Madness - Sweet 16!

Congratulations to all the books that made it to the Sweet 16 during Ort Library's March Book Madness.

 

We had some close "games" during the Round of 32. The "games" get tighter as we move into the Sweet 16. Make sure you vote for your favorites to move onto the Elite 8.

 

The library guide (http://libguides.frostburg.edu/march-madness18 ) has a tab for voting in the Sweet 16 and a tab that provides the results for the Round of 32.

 

The voting for the Sweet 16 runs from Friday March 9th  to Monday March 12th

Voting can be accessed via the following link:  

http://libguides.frostburg.edu/march-madness18

Good luck to all the books as voting for the Sweet 16 begins!

 

If you have any questions, please contact Theresa Mastrodonato at tmmastrodonato@frostburg.edu or 301-687-4425.