Did you know that 690 items were added to the Library catalogue in the past month alone?
If you want to check out what is new, go to our New Books page to see items added the the past 1-4 months.

The J. William Horsey Library will be holding the following two FREE workshops on the following dates:

Find a Topic and a Book @ the Tyndale Library
Monday, October 4th, 2010
West Room 2084, Main Campus
1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Are you interested in learning how to find books and e-books at the Tyndale libraries?  Are you interested in learning practical tips on how the navigate the collections and to develop a topic for your research paper at the same time? If so, we invite you to come out for this workshop on finding books at the library.

In this practical workshop you will learn how to effectively use the Tyndale library catalog, OnTRAC, to find books and e-books available through the library. You will also be introduced to the Library of Congress subject headings and how you can use those subject headings to help you focus on a topic for your paper.

Research Strategies and Scholarly Journals
Tuesday, October 12, 2010th
West Room 2084, Main Campus
10:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.

Do you need to find scholarly journal articles but don’t know where to start? Are you overwhelmed with the amount of information that is available electronically through the library? In this workshop you will learn what scholarly articles are and how to find them through the Tyndale libraries. You will also learn how to develop an effective research strategy that you can use to find the best scholarly journal articles through the Tyndale libraries.

If you are interested in signing up for one of these workshops, please contact:

Mark Mueller, Education Librarian
Telephone: 416-226-6620 (ext. 2227)
E-mail: mmueller@tyndale.ca

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature is now available for all Tyndale library users to access online.

To access from any computer connected to the Tyndale network:

http://www.oxford-childrensliterature.com/?authstatuscode=202

If you are off campus, first visit the library’s e-resources and e-books page at:

http://www.tyndale.ca/library

Second:

Look up Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature in the Oxford DRS tab.

This resource contains over 3,000 entries written by an international roster of more than 300 authors, the Encyclopedia comprehensively documents and interprets the books read by children throughout the world. With a global perspective that pays attention to significant international trends and the multi-cultural expansion of the field, it includes brief biographies of every major author and illustrator. Also included are feature essays on all genres of children’s literature, individual works, and prominent trends and themes, as well as general essays on the traditions of children’s literature in many countries throughout the world.

Have you ever tried to visit a website only to get a “Not found” message?

Chances are the site has either closed down or moved to another location. This could be especially annoying if the website contained some stellar content or a directory of links to some other important websites.

If this has happened to you, there are a couple of methods that you can use to retrieve to that old website and access the much needed information.

One way is to first look up that site using Google search and then click on the “Cached” link in the results list. Using this method you can retrieve a snapshot of what the Web site looked like when it was indexed last by Google.

This method is useful if the site closed down or moved very recently - the last 1 or 2 days. Google indexes its web sites quite frequently and the chances of you retrieving the same “Not found” message become greater as the days go by after the site closes.

The other method is to use the “Way Back Machine” tool on the www.archive.org website. Simply enter the URL (web address) of the site into the search engine and press the “Take Me Back” button.

The Way Back Machine will then search for the site in its archive of well over 150 billion web pages.

This is probably the best method - aside from contacting the author(s) - of retrieving a closed down and/or relocated website because some of the websites in the archive go back up to 15 years. What’s even better is that the outside links in the site are archived as well.

To cite the page using APA try following one of the examples below:

Press, M (08-16-2007). Canadian Education on the Web. Retrieved on May 6, 2009 from www.archive.org, archived at web.archive.org/web/20080109054933/http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/canedweb/.

Visit the Tyndale Library Blog every week for more research tips. You can also visit one of our friendly reference staff at one of the Tyndale Libraries.

The Library has reserved some choice volumes for this sale. Everyone is looking for a deal. Your opportunity comes up on Feb. 17, 2009 at 1 p.m. It’s the annual library book sale, held in the Horsey Library on the main campus. The Library receives selective donations. We often find that we get duplicate copies or there are copies we don’t need. The best of these are saved for a BIG book sale. Prices range from $5.00 to $20.00  per volume. As the sale progresses over a couple of weeks the prices drop. For best selection come on the first day. All paperbacks are $5.00.

This year we are only having one sale. Some faculty members have also contributed books to the sale including Dr. Ian Gentles who specializes in European and urban history.