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Special access to COVID-19 academic resources

23 Wednesday Sep 2020

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Many academic publishers have opened up selected resources for free access during the coronavirus pandemic. Here are some we’ve added to the Library website:

  • Internet Archives eBooks typically give readers access to the full content of a book. Users must create their own account, then they can check out or put a hold on a title they want to read. Internet Archive eBooks are currently searchable through our WorldCat Library search, along with all our other print books and eBooks.
  • MUSE In Focus: Contextualizing Pandemic is a collection of more than 25,000 eBooks and 300 scholarly journals that “bring some historical, cultural, and social context to the COVID-19 crisis”.
  • JSTOR free access to selected COVID-19-related articles. This large collection can be browsed by topic.

Follow the Library’s COVID-19 guide to keep up to date on any other additional resources that become available, and for information on the Library’s many subscription databases and eBooks that we continue to make available to our students, staff, and faculty.

New Database Subscriptions!

19 Tuesday Nov 2019

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Databases, dsm 5, film studies, human services, nursing, psychology

Back in October the Library had trial subscriptions to three different databases, all requested by Kirkwood faculty. We are pleased to announce that we have decided to subscribe to two of these, and both will be available beginning in January 2020.

Please welcome the newest additions to the Kirkwood Libraries Databases collection:

1. Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text

This database provides a collection of scholarly and popular articles on film and television topics. It strives to be comprehensive and balanced, and as the title suggests contains the full-text of indexed articles. Besides the obvious uses in film studies, this content could also be used by students writing research papers in any number of different courses where a film or series is used as source material. As a bonus, this database is contained in the familiar EBSCOhost interface.

2. Symptom Media: Films for Mental Health Education

This collection of short educational and training films contains mental health simulations, and includes assessment tools related to DSM 5 and ICD. We heard positive feedback on this content from faculty in psychology, human services, and nursing & allied health.

Thanks to all the faculty who recommended these databases and gave us feedback on their potential usefulness for our students. Check the library website in January to try them for yourself!

Summer Updates to Library Resources

14 Wednesday Aug 2019

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credo instruct, Databases, Gale, Opposing Viewpoints, PsycArticles

Welcome back!

Over the summer there have been some mostly-minor changes to our online information resources, including all the Gale-owned databases, PsycArticles database, and the Credo Instruct tutorials collection.

  1. Gale databases (this includes Academic OneFile and Opposing Viewpoints) had some big changes. First, their interface has been updated (improved!) with the aim of making them more consistent and more modern, and to ensure they meet accessibility requirements. The downside for some faculty is that the links to any bookmarked or otherwise linked articles from these databases are most likely now broken. You will need to go back into the database and grab that new link to put in Talon. Directions for inserting links to database articles are here in our Faculty Services guide. Just ask me (kate.hess AT kirkwood.edu) if you have any problems with this process. I’m happy to help!
  2. PsycArticles has also changed its link. If you have copy and pasted a direct link to the database or to articles within the database into your Talon, you will need to update those links. The content is still there, but the links have changed.
  3. Credo Instruct has added several new tutorials to their trove of research, critical thinking, and other information literacy tutorials, videos and quizzes. New tutorials are:
    • Research for Persuasive Writing
    • Selecting Appropriate Digital Sources
    • News Reporting vs. Opinion Pieces in Journalism
    • Evaluating Digital Sources Using Lateral Reading
    • Digital Privacy
    • Paraphrasing, Quoting, and Summarizing

Remember you can find out about all the resources and services the library provides to faculty over at our Faculty Services LibGuide. Best of luck in your new semester!

 

Do you know about our debate books?

02 Monday Oct 2017

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CQ Researcher, Databases, Debate Books, Do you know, Library Newsletter, Newsletter, Opposing Viewpoints

Library Shelves with books with pink debate books on them

Our Debate Books Collection

Do you have to make a persuasive or argumentative speech? Do you have to write a persuasive or argumentative research paper? Or do you assign one? Do we have the both the book section and databases for you.

The most important step in researching a persuasive speech or paper is to select your topic. It should both interest you and be a topic that there are clearly at least two sides to.

HINT: Do NOT choose topics such as abortion, death penalty, etc. Everyone writes about those and your instructor would be in a much better mindset when grading your paper if you don’t make them read their 5,000th paper on one of those topics. AND you will write a better paper if it’s something that you’re at least a little bit interested in.

How do you find different and interesting topics? That’s where are debate books section comes in. It is mostly made up by two major series, Opposing Viewpoints and Current Controversies. Both series design books on a particular subject, which is then broken down to more detailed sections and then to questions for and against. Anyone of these questions would make an excellent topic. As a bonus they also give you the opposing viewpoint so you can argue against it.

The Debate books are found in a section in both the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City branches of Kirkwood Library Services. Their design makes them the easiest to browse in paper. They don’t circulate. However, we do also carry two online options.

The first is CQResearch which gives in-depth background reports that are useful for any project. You can also search for Pro/Con sections within these reports that argue both sides of an issue side by side.

The second is the Opposing Viewpoints in Context database which is put out by the same company that produces the series of books. You want to look for Viewpoints which are the same as the essays in the books. The also have direct access to a limited selection of journal articles, new articles, statistic reports, etc. which show up in a basic search. Unfortunately on the website the essays and articles aren’t paired pro and con so you may have a harder time finding the opposing viewpoint. Also, it can be hard to find all the articles within a book. Make sure you have the names of the essays from the table of contents if you want to find everything in a book online. Some recent titles may not be available online even if they are available in paper.

Ask a reference librarian if you need more help.

Close-up of a part of a shelf of debate books with pink labels

Important Notes

The Library link has returned to the bottom of the Kirkwood homepage. After moving off the page right before the semester started and staying off for a couple of weeks we were finally moved back into the second column of the list at the bottom of the page.

If you use APA in your classrooms there has been a change in how doi format. Learn more.

There has been a change in the Iowa City Kirkwood Library’s hours. They are now:
Mon-Th: 7:30am-9pm
Fri: 7:30am-5pm
Sat: 11am-4pm
Sun: Closed

Major Databases Changes came July 1st

Links to Some of The Books Recently Added to the Collection:

Agriculture and Agribusiness
Alex Awards 2016 – check out these best fiction and nonfiction books written for adults at an popular reading level
Best Books from School Library Journal for 2016 – check out these books which are a mixture of picture books and young adult books.
Collections of True Stories About Women
Culture Smart! Book Series Updates
Directors, Movies, Actors
Memorial Day Books about Veterans and the Armed Forces
Top Science Books of 2016 by the Smithsonian
YALSA 2016 Best Books for Young Adults – check out these fiction books selected to appeal to college age students by librarians who work with them
Odds and Ends 37
Odds and Ends 38
Odds and Ends 39
Odds and Ends 40

Our Special Display This Month

Hispanic Heritage Month

Banned Books Week will be September 24-30, 2017. Contact the library for a button to wear. Stop by during Banned Books Week or the week after to check out this year’s display. (See last year’s display.)

Check out this list of Cultural Events happening at Kirkwood this fall.

Our Database of the Month

Major Databases Changes came July 1st

Books and Authors

EVENT – SPECIAL HOURS

Kirkwood Campuses Closed at Noon on Fridays through July 28th. This Friday closure pattern will carry over to next summer. Dates are not yet available, but will likely run from the beginning of summer classes through the end of July next year also.

Research Tips

Librarians Wrote Articles in The Communique last year. Watch for our articles in upcoming issues.

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New Databases Joining Us This Fall

22 Tuesday Aug 2017

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Credo Reference, Databases, Films on Demand, Gale, Global Road Warrior, Kanopy, New Databases, PsycArticles

Off the Front Page

Earlier this month the library was bumped from the list at the bottom of the Kirkwood main page. We’re still at the same address, but the link on the Kirkwood homepage is gone. Here’s how to find us now.

What’s Going On With EBSCO?

The State Library of Iowa opened the state’s package of databases to bidding for the first time and the winner wasn’t long time favorite EBSCO. Instead Gale came in the winner with an assortment of different databases offering similar coverage and some things we never had before – like a language database – at a lower price than EBSCO’s bid. Check out the new databases and be aware that while we continue to have the EBSCO databases for right now they may disappear next summer as negotiations continue.

Since we aren’t sure on how long we’ll keep EBSCO in addition to Gale, we’ve removed the direct link to EBSCO from our library homepage. You can still get access through the All Kirkwood Databases page which is linked on our homesite right where the Ebsco link used to be. The full EBSCO list is available under E and Academic Elite which is the bed and butter database for EBSCO is under A.

Please make sure to keep an eye on any links you may have made to articles in our databases.

Standalone Databases

Databases that we purchase stand alone outside the package, such as the language and literature module of JSTOR or our two film databases Kanopy and Films on Demand among others, will not be effected by this switch.

In the spring we had added two new databases. One is Credo Reference which is a great place to start your research. It’s a collection of reference books in ebook format, but also provides a mind map and brings up results from our other databases all in one place. Find it through our website OR by just googling your topic followed by the word Credo.

The other is Global Road Warrior. It provides profiles of countries around the world. If you use it for actual travel rather than reports or presentations, be sure to also check out the traveler’s language packets in Transparent Language Online database.

Finally be especially aware if you use PsycArticles that while we still have the database, we’ve switched providers so the interface will be different and links will have changed.

The Gale List

Try out the all Gale Database list to see just what we get from them. Here are some highlights and their Ebsco equivalent names.
Academic OneFile
– Their equivalent of Academic Elite in EBSCO, the place to start for scholarly articles.
Books & Authors  
– Helps you find information about your favorite book and what you should read next.
Business Insights: Essentials  
– Where to start for company and industry information and reports.
Chilton Library
– Need information about fixing your car? Here you go.
Educators Reference Complete
– Information for college instructors, teachers, and future teachers about education research and publications that offer ideas for improving your teaching.
General OneFile 
– Their equivalent of Masterfile Premiere, the place to start for popular and news magazines, etc.
Health & Wellness Resource Center
– Their version of Health Source: Consumer Edition. It provides health information aimed at a popular reading audience.
Health Reference Center Academic
– Their version of Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition. It provides health information aimed at serious research for papers and those in the medical profession.
Informe Académico
– A research database in Spanish.
Infotrac Newsstand 
– 1,000+ newspapers and news wires from around the world, plus some news blogs and television shows. Includes some major U.S. papers (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Boston Herald, Christian Science Monitor, Denver Post, etc.) but coverage is strongest in English-speaking British Commonwealth countries (Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, South Africa, etc.). Also includes three major Spanish-language papers from Mexico (El Norte, Mural, Reforma). *
Infotrac Student Edition
– This is aimed for high school use and so has easier reading materials than what is generally found in the other databases as a whole, but some titles will overlap with the advanced databases. It’s a mixture of publications specifically for young adults and some easy reading adult titles. While not acceptable for assignments requiring scholarly journals, it should still be OK for other assignments.
Kids InfoBits
– This is definitely aimed at a low reading level, but if you’re learning English or know someone that is this database might be just the ticket.
Research in Context
– This is reference materials that are above Kids InfoBits in reading level, but not at the college level. It includes Discovering Authors, U.S. History, Science and Biography, and the entire contents of the Junior Reference Collection. Thousands of overview essays, critical analyses, biographies, timelines and multimedia elements in five core subject areas: history, literature, biography, science and social studies. **
Transparent Language Online
– You have to create your own user account for this one within the Kirkwood system. It offers lessons for 100+ languages and offers English lessons for 25 plus for English language learners.

Field of Study

In addition this might be of use for your specific field of study. The descriptions come from the Gales list.
Agriculture Collection
This covers agriculture and related fields. It covers current information and research “from practical aspects of farming to cutting edge scientific research in horticulture.”
Culinary Arts Collection
“Provides academic journals and magazines on all aspects of cooking and nutrition. The database includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.”
U.S. History Collection
“S
cholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. The database offers balanced coverage of events in U.S. history and scholarly work being established in the field.”
 Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Collection
“Provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and trade publications that cover topics including the cultural and economic aspects of travel and tourism. The database offers current and relevant content that provides well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism industries.”

 Notes

*The Infotrac Newstand description is abbreviated from the one used by University of Michigan library since it was the best scope note (description of what it covers) that I found.
** The Research in Context description is taken in part from the College of DuPage library which had the best scope note I found.
I wrote the other short descriptions, except the bottom four as marked.
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Database Change Coming July 1st!

18 Thursday May 2017

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Databases, EBSCO, Gale Cengage, Kirkwood Community College, Kirkwood Community College Library, Kirkwood Library Services

Exciting news! Beginning July 1st, the Kirkwood library will be providing more resources to you, our patron, for less cost. The State Library of Iowa and the Alliance of Academic Libraries in Iowa have negotiated a new contract with the database vendor, Gale, to provide us their “Gold” package. This new package will provide us with even more journals and magazines than we had in the past through EBSCOhost, the previous, State Library preferred vendor.

What this will mean for most faculty and students is that Academic OneFile will be replacing EBSCO’s Academic Search Elite for academic research. Both databases provide peer-reviewed, full text, multi-disciplinary articles, but Academic OneFile provides over 17,000 more journal titles than Academic Search Elite. It is overall a more comprehensive product.

However, the library will continue to subscribe to specialized EBSCO products, in order to provide you with the best available resources. These EBSCO databases are:

CINAHL with full text

Current Biography Illustrated

EBSCO ebooks

ERIC

Library Literature and Information Science Full text

PsycArticles

Science Full text Select

During the summer, the library will be updating its website pages and links in order to provide you with the most current information and available titles from Gale. Please check out the FAQs and other details about the new databases at: http://guides.kirkwood.edu/onefile. Of course, if after July 1st, you find that you do not have access to a resource you use for your courses, please contact the library and we will do our best to provide you with what you need.

The specific products that the Kirkwood libraries will gain with the Gale’s “GOLD” package are:

*Academic OneFile (with InfoTrac Collections)       

*Books & Authors

*Business Insights Essentials

*Chiltons Library (for auto repair)

*Credo Reference

*Educator’s Reference Complete

*General OneFile (with InfoTrac Collections)

*Health & Wellness Resource Center with Alternative Health Module

*Health Reference Center Academic

*Informe Academico (Spanish language)

*Transparent Language Online

Do You Know About Our Film Databases?

23 Thursday Feb 2017

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Did you know that your library now provides access for faculty, staff, and students to two film databases? Kanopy Streaming Video was added in the summer of 2015, while Films on Demand was added in the fall of 2016. Both services provide streaming videos that can be shown in a classroom, watched from home (accessed using K# and password), or even embedded in Talon. Public performance rights are even provided through these two databases.

kanopyKanopy offers “titles from PBS, BBC, Criterion Collection, California Newsreel, New Day Films, Universal Paramount, The Great Courses, Kino Lorber, Media Education Foundation and more.” Films on Demand provides Kirkwood access to their Master Academic Package, Master Career & Tech Ed, Archival Films & Newsreels Collection, Nursing Collection, World Cinema Collection,  Veterinary Collection and Physical Therapy Collection.

films-on-demandHowever, if you search both databases and cannot find what you need, please let a librarian know. We are glad to purchase a copy that will be housed with the library collection and added to Kirkwood’s “Video on Demand” system provided through Media Services.

 

Do you know about these services available around campus? (Note: It was updated a couple of times since it was originally published most recently February 14, 2017.)

Our trials for Credo and Global Road Warrior still have a week or so yet. Do you have an assignment where your students have to investigate or compare countries? Would Global Road Warrior help with that? Have a project where a specialized encyclopedia could help clarify things to students with Credo? Please look at the sources and let us know if they’d help your students succeed.

It’s Tax time again. Get some basic information.

Look for our annual faculty survey to come out the last week of March. Find our report from last year.

Links to Some of The Books Recently Added to the Collection:

Business

Holocaust

Odds and Ends 31

Odds and Ends 32

Presidents

Very Short Introduction Series

Tests

HiSet Formerly GED

Replacements for COMPASS

Our Special Display This Month

During February our displays are for African-American History Month and Books with Movie Tie-Ins

EVENT – SPECIAL HOURS

During Spring Break Week, both Iowa City and Cedar Rapids Kirkwood Library locations will be closed the Sunday before and the Saturday after and be open 8am – 5 pm Monday thru Friday.

Tech Tips

Digital Natives? and Information Literacy

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And remember you contact us at the library any time by phone, e-mail, chat, or stop on by! We’re always glad to see you! Look for the next issue of our newsletter. And remember you contact us at the library any time by phone, e-mail, chat, or stop on by! We’re always glad to see you! Look for the next issue of our newsletter.

Tell us what you think! Credo Reference and Global Road Warrior

01 Wednesday Feb 2017

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Credo, Credo online reference, Databases, Global Road Warrior, Kirkwood Community College, Kirkwood Community College Library, Kirkwood Library Services

As your Kirkwood library, we are always trying to provide our patrons with better and more accessible information. Therefore, on February 1st, the library will begin a 30 day trial of two research databases: Credo Online Reference and Global Road Warrior.

credo

Credo Reference is a database that, unlike Wikipedia, provides credible background information for beginning research. Credo contains over 690 books (which include subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases and reference handbooks), 15 image collections (featuring images of art and portraits) and 1,100 short reference videos on numerous academic subjects. A complete list of the subjects and book titles can be found on their website. Credo also provides research guides, which point faculty and students to Credo books on 58 topics including nursing, business, American literature and biology. When patrons search the Credo database, topic pages will appear that link to not only Credo resources, but other Kirkwood owned books and databases to encourage more in-depth research. Please contact your Kirkwood librarian if you need help in accessing any of these special features.globalroadwarrior

Global Road Warrior is an online database that provides in-depth cultural information on 175 countries. Topics on each country include business, society, music, education, language and more. This database would be particularly helpful to classes in international business, women’s studies, social sciences, and languages, as well as study abroad programs.

To let us know what you think, the librarians are inviting all Kirkwood patrons to complete a short online survey  (which will be available until Sunday, March 5th. From faculty, we’d like to know if you have an assignment that these databases will help your students complete– and from students – does this information look useful to you? AND if there are other resources you need, please let us know at any time. The Kirkwood Libraries are here to serve you!

Do You Know How To Find Journal Articles?

04 Tuesday Oct 2016

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A common question we get asked is how to find journal articles (aka scholarly journals aka research articles, etc.). Often a student’s first instinct is to go to Google or sometimes Google Scholar. However, those open web resources often direct you to a site where you have to pay for the article. You’re already paying for article access through the library so be sure to take full advantage.

Library Homepage With Labels

Specific Journal Title

If you have a particular journal or article you’re looking for, use our journal search. It will tell you if we carry that journal in any database or in print.

Paper or Print Journals

There are some titles that we still get in print. These titles aren’t available online, are much more expensive online, or aren’t indexed. Find these titles in the library’s Magazine/Journal section.

Before We Begin, Log In

If you are NOT on campus, in order to access any library database you must be logged into the Kirkwood proxy with your k-number and password. If you search for an article using all the ways below at some point you will be asked to log in. You will only be required to log in once per session no matter how many different databases you use during that session.

Using the Catalog

The most obvious way to search for articles is through the catalog. Our catalog is both a union catalog (it allows you to search multiple libraries) and a discovery product (it searches all our available materials including article databases besides our books). That means you can use the main search box on the homepage and it will bring up many articles we have access to.

Click on the tab for articles above the search box to narrow the search to articles. Click on the button under the article you want to look at. The button says Access Online.
If you have questions contact reference in person or chat or call in.

The good part of this type of search is it goes across multiple databases. It’s excellent for browsing, helping you come up with ideas to narrow down a topic, or to let you know there isn’t a lot available on a topic. It also provides a way to find articles that we don’t own, but can borrow for you from other libraries.

The bad part is that it brings up some articles we don’t own which sometimes look like we do own them, and misses some articles we do have access to. If you’re having trouble finding articles on your topic go directly into a database or ask us for what database to try.

EBSCOhost

EBSCOhost, and especially the Academic Search Elite, is our main database. If you go into EBSCO directly from the link on the library homepage, the search will default to Academic Search Elite.

The first page that comes up will also give you the option to log into the other subdatabases of EBSCO. These might be useful if you were looking for something more specific like a medical or business topic for example. Otherwise just leave it on the default and hit continue.

We have set the “Refine Results” tools to only show the full text articles. There are several controls there you may also want to set to help you with your search including scholarly articles only, limited years of publication, and subjects instead of keywords.

All Other Databases

A second link on our homepage is to ALL KIRKWOOD DATABASES. This link will bring up a list of every database the college subscribes to, including those not searched automatically in the catalog. Note that while there is an EBSCO link that will take you into the same page as the direct link on the homepage, each EBSCO subdatabase is listed by title on this page.

Click on the database you want and follow their directions.

Can’t Find What You Want?

If you’re having trouble finding an article or a specific topic, please contact the reference desk. Some topics just aren’t the type of thing you see journal articles written about and some articles are not easily available. But we’re always willing to dig and see what we can find.

Check out our report on our latest faculty survey and how we’ve responded to the feedback.

Do you know all these things that might help you or your students around campus? Is there anything else we should add?

Links to Some of The Books Recently Added to the Collection Since the Last Do You Know:

Consumer Experience

French Cinema

Interviews, Resumes, and Job Hunting

Odds and Ends Part 27

Odds and Ends Part 28

Personal Finance

Picture Books on Emotional Subjects

Prohibition and Bootlegging 1920s Style

Robert Sedlacek Family Donations

Self-Improvement

Our Special Display This Month

During August and September we have a special display called “Start Off On the Right Foot This Semester!” It features books that offer tips, tricks, and general information about how to succeed in college.

EVENT

It’s Banned Books Week from September 26-October 1st. Our display will be up through October 7th. This year there was a book pulled from store shelves. What do you think?

Research Tips

What do you mean I can’t use internet sources on this assignment?

Tech Tips

How to restore the menu toolbar in Mozilla

Google Tips and Tricks

Our Database of the Month

Films on Demand

New Version of New York Times Available

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And remember you contact us at the library any time by phone, e-mail, chat, or stop on by! We’re always glad to see you! Look for the next issue of our newsletter.

Featured Database: Films on Demand

21 Wednesday Sep 2016

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Databases, Films, Films on Demand, Kirkwood Community College, Kirkwood Community College Library, videos

films-on-demand

Last year, the library added the film database, Kanopy, to our list of databases. It was so popular, that the library has now added another video database called Films on Demand (FOD). Films on Demand, like Kanopy, is a streaming video platform that offers award-winning films. The FOD collections that we have access to are: Master Academic Package, Master Career & Tech Ed, Archival Films & Newsreels Collection, Nursing Collection, World Cinema Collection,  Veterinary Collection and Physical Therapy Collection. So there really should be something for everyone!

With the library’s current subscriptions to Films on Demand and Kanopy, Kirkwood is only charged  for the films we actually use. In other words, if our college community watches a film, we pay, if we don’t, no charge is incurred. This patron driven acquisition (PDA) model makes it very cost effective for the library and allows us to offer you a broader array of options to choose from.

Another great feature is that the database films can easily be embedded into Talon. This makes it especially useful for hybrid and online courses. For Films on Demand, click on the Share link provided for each film under the media player. Then click on the Embed Code tab. Use the “Alternate Embed Code” to embed the video in Talon. You can do this by highlighting and copying the url provided.

embed-code-fod1

Have questions? For more information about this exciting service, please contact your reference librarian.

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