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10/04/2024
profile-icon Mark Duncan
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Save the date for the Library Open House! Come to Plough Library on Tuesday, October 22 from 11am-1pm during the Open House! We’ll have games & puzzles, food & prizes, comic books, a station to suggest names for our new plants, material from the archives, and opportunities to meet your library staff and learn about the library’s resources!

 

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10/02/2024
profile-icon Kay Cunningham
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Ann Youngblood Mulhearn's Social Justice From Outside the Walls: Catholic Women in Memphis, 1950-1970 is a recent addition to Plough Library's collection. Given the time frame, it should come as no surprise that space is devoted to activist Allegra Turner, her husband and sons, Brother Terence McLaughlin, and the integration of CBHs.

You can find it in the LaSallian Collection, call number 282.768 M85 2024.

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Welcome to a new school year! We are excited to see everyone back on campus and to meet new members of the CBU community. Visit the library to check out our books!

Here are some books we've added to the collection so far in 2024, sorted by subject:

New Titles in Literature and Rhetoric 2024

New Titles in Technology, Art, History, Biography, and Geography 2024

New Titles in Social Sciences, Language, Natural Sciences, and Math 2024

New Titles in General Works, Philosophy, Psychology, and Religion 2024

You can also check out our New and Popular Books shelves on the main floor at Plough Library, right across from the Library Service Desk.

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08/15/2024
profile-icon Kay Cunningham

Each year we encourage you to check the links for any library resources included in your courseware. This year, however, we have an entirely new proxy prefix, so all your URLs need to be updated. 

Our new prefix is: 

https://christianbros.idm.oclc.org/login?url=

For databases, you can grab the correct links from the Library’s A-Z list. For links within databases, on the other hand, you will need to make new permalinks. Some databases, e.g., Films on Demand, Academic Video Online, and SciTech Premium, already include our prefix in their permalinks, so you can just copy and paste them. Others, like the EBSCO databases, do not. For these permalinks, all you need to do is add our prefix yourself! Here are some examples:

https://christianbros.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=3024159&site=ehost-live&scope=site

https://christianbros.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bsu&AN=177241587&site=ehost-live&scope=site

If you need help, come by the library and we’ll be glad to show you what to do. You can also send us your old URLs, and we’ll send replacements.

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05/17/2024
profile-icon Deborah Babb
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UPDATE: Access has been restored to most of Plough Library's online resources, including databases, ebooks, and ejournals. If you experience any further access issues, please contact Kay Cunningham at 901-321-3430 or kay.cunningham@cbu.edu.


Due to unforeseen events, most of the library's online resources are temporarily unavailable, both on and off campus. We apologize for any inconvenience.

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03/15/2024
profile-icon Deborah Babb
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The Same Page, the official newsletter of Plough Library, is back with our first issue since fall 2019! We invite you to read it online (it's a PDF) and see what's new, as well as services and resources you may have forgotten we offer.

In this issue:

  • From the Director                          
  • What Do You Love about the Library?
  • Relax at the Library
  • Group Study Rooms
  • Start Growing with the CBU Seed Library
  • The New York Times
  • Memphis Business Journal
  • Library Staff News
  • Refworks is Leaving June 30th
  • March Madness of Books
  • Instruction Services
  • Electronic Resources Updates
  • Beverly & Sam Ross Gallery
  • From the Br. I. Leo O’Donnell Archives
  • Explore the Library!
  • Check Out These Books

 

 

 

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03/13/2024
profile-icon Deborah Babb
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UPDATE: The north stairwell is now open, as is the northwest corner of the top floor. You can now go up and down those stairs and browse all of the bookshelves upstairs.

Plough Library is getting a new air conditioning system installed. While work is completed, you may notice some loud noises as well as a lack of heat and A/C. Thank you for your patience!

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02/08/2024
profile-icon Deborah Babb
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Plough Library group study room with tables and chairs and wall mounted computer and monitorDid you know Plough Library has two group study rooms in the northwest corner of the main floor?

These rooms are designated to support CBU students in their academic work. If not reserved, students may use a group study room but must share it with others who also wish to study.

Each room comes equipped with:

  • Floor-to-ceiling whiteboard wall
    • Check out dry erase markers and an eraser from the Library Service Desk.
  • Wall-mounted computer and monitor
    • Check out a bag that comes with a keyboard, mouse, and remote from the Library Service Desk.

Group Study Room Reservations

CBU students may request a group study room reservation from library staff for groups of 4 or more people for 2 hours maximum per day.

The library hopes to have an interactive online reservation system up and running by fall 2024. For now, reservation requests may be made at the Library Service Desk, by chat (available through the library homepage), by phone at (901) 321-3432, or by email at library@cbu.edu.

Please Note: We ask that you not bring any food into the group study rooms. Thank you!

 

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02/07/2024
profile-icon Deborah Babb

CBU's subscription to RefWorks will end on June 30, 2024.

If you have references in RefWorks that you wish to save, you will need to transfer your sources out of RefWorks by June 30, 2024.  It is easy to export collections into any other citation manager. Free citation managers include Zotero and MendeleyZotero is the citation manager that Plough Library will use going forward.


Using Zotero: This page from Plough Library's Citing Sources guide has more details on how Zotero works.

If you have questions about transferring sources out of RefWorks into another citation manager, please contact Kay Cunningham, Library Director, at kay.cunningham@cbu.edu.

 

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02/06/2024
profile-icon Deborah Babb

Do you have a garden and want to plant some vegetable or flower seeds? CBU students, faculty, staff, and alumni can now get free seeds at the CBU Seed Library. Located on the main floor of Plough Library in a vintage card catalog cabinet, these seeds are free to take and use. Take what you need, and after your harvest, you can save seeds from your yield (if possible), or donate different seeds to keep the exchange going. Simply complete the online form to let us know which seeds you take — and start planting!

We currently have the following seeds: Arugula, Coriander, Cosmos (mixed variety), Cucumber (Marketmore 76), Dill, Green Beans, Marigold (large yellow), Oregano, Parsley (flat leaf), Radish (Nelson), Watermelon (Moon & Stars), and Zinnia (mixed and Benary's Giant).


CBU Seed Library Form

Use this form to record your seed checkouts, donations, or what you pledge to return at the end of the growing season.


About the CBU Seed Library

Launched in fall 2023, the CBU Seed Library is a partnership between the CBU Community Garden, the Student Sustainability Coalition, and Plough Library. Seeds are generously supplied by Alpha Omega Veterans Services Urban Farm & Garden.

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