Library Databases: An Introduction

What Are Library Databases?

Library databases offered by the Millsaps-Wilson Library are intended to support student research, and students often use databases when writing research papers or completing projects.  Library databases often contain both scholarly and popular articles.  Most of our databases even offer full text.  If an article has full text, then this simply means that the full article is available to read instantly online.

Want to know more about which databases the Millsaps-Wilson Library offers?  

Click on this link to see a full list:  

http://library.millsaps.edu/sp/subjects/databases.php?letter=All

As the library adds new databases, we will advertise them right here on our blog.  You can also see a list of our newest databases if you click on the link listed above.  You will see the Newest Databases box on the right hand side of the screen.

Wondering about the symbols on the Database List?  Below is a key to symbols:

 = Click for more information about a database.  = Campus Faculty, Staff & Students only  = Some full text = Images = Video files = Audio files

If you have questions or would like more information, please feel free to:

- Come by the library's front desk for assistance

- Call us at x1073 or 601-974-1073

- E-mail us at librarian@millsaps.edu

Lehman Engel and the Millsaps-Wilson Library

You may or may not know that the Millsaps-Wilson Library has a special room named for Lehman Engel, a Jackson-born musician, composer, conductor, author and teacher.  The library's Engel Room houses the collection that was once his personal library.

Recently, Jeffrey Sweet wrote "The Innovators:  Lehman Engel" about Engel and his work:
http://schooltheatre.org/publications/dramatics/2012/04/innovators-lehman-engel

You will see images in this piece from the Millsaps College Archives and Special Collections.  To learn more about the Millsaps College Archives and Special Collections, visit this link:  http://www.millsaps.edu/library/library_archives.php

For more information about the Lehman Engel Collection at the Millsaps-Wilson Library, click here: http://www.millsaps.edu/library/library_engel_collection.php

Finals Week - Open Extended Hours

We hope that Finals Week is going well for everyone.  Remember that the library is open extended hours through Saturday, May 5.  Below is the library schedule:

Thursday, May 3:   Open All Day and All Night

Friday, May 4:        Open All Day – 2 a.m.  (early Saturday morning)

Saturday, May 5:    7:50 a.m.  -  4:00 p.m.

Sunday, May 6:       Closed

Monday, May 7:      8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

For the full library calendar, visit the link below:

http://www.millsaps.edu/library/library_hours.php

Facebook Timeline updated

We posted some historical facts and pictures about the library on the library facebook page.  Our favorite is the audio tape storage unit from the 1970's.

https://www.facebook.com/millsapslibrary

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Millsaps-Wilson Library – On Your Smartphone!

Are you interested in accessing the Millsaps-Wilson Library’s online services from your Smartphone?  The Millsaps-Wilson Library’s mobile interface may be just what you need.  Click on the link below to view the mobile website:

http://library.millsaps.edu/m/

Smartphone-friendly links on the mobile site include:

-        EBSCO databases

-        Library Hours

-        Library Catalog

-        JSTOR

-        Project Muse

A link to the mobile site is also on the library’s webpage.  Look for the link in the bottom left corner of the webpage.

What do you think of the mobile library site?  Please send your feedback to librarian@millsaps.edu

New Titles - March 2012

The Millsaps-Wilson Library recently added new academic titles and also books by recent speakers in Millsaps College’s Visiting Writers Series to the collection.

New books are often displayed on the shelf in the hall just to the west of the front desk.  If you have any questions, feel free to ask for assistance at the front desk or e-mail us at librarian@millsaps.edu

The titles below are arranged by title, author, and call number:

Recent Visiting Writers Series Authors:

The Night Swimmer: A Novel

Bondurant, Matt

PS3602.O657 N54 2012

The Wettest County in the World:  A Novel Based on a True Story

Bondurant, Matt

PS3602.O657 W48 2008

Gryphon:  New and Selected Stories

Baxter, Charles

PS3552.A854 G79 2012

Army Cats:  Poems

Sleigh, Tom

PS3569.L36 A88 2011

New Academic Books:

Alexander the Great and His Empire:  A Short Introduction

Briant, Pierre.

DF234.37 .B7413 2010

Beyond Fundamentalism:  Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalization

Aslan, Reza.

BP182 .A65 2010

Building Brains:  An Introduction to Neural Development

Price, David J.

QP363.5 .B85 2011

Business Writing in the Digital Age

Canavor, Natalie

HF5718.3 .C365 2012

The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath

Gill, Jo

PS3566.L27 Z665 2008

The Civil War:  The Second Year Told by Those Who Lived It

Sears, Stephen W.

E464 .S562 2012

A Companion to the Crying of Lot 49

Grant, J. Kerry

PS3566.Y55 C792 2008

A Concise History of Modern Korea:  from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present

Seth, Michael J.

DS907.18 .S424 2010

Deadly Choices:  How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All

Offit, Paul A.

RJ240 .O38 2011

The Guns of August:  The Proud Tower

Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim

D530 .T8 2012

International Business in the 21st Century

Keillor, Bruce David

HF1379 .I5674 2011 V.1

On Greek religion

Parker, Robert

BL790 .P37 2011

Rawls:  An Introduction

Maffettone, Sebastiano

JC251.R32 M34 2010

She-Wolves:  The Women Who Ruled England before Elizabeth

Castor, Helen

DA28.2 .C37 2011

Slavery in the Roman World

Joshel, Sandra R.

HT863 .J67 2010

The Solitary Self:  Darwin and the Selfish Gene

Midgley, Mary

B1647.M473 S65 2010

Unbeatable Résumés:  America's Top Recruiter Reveals what Really Gets You Hired

Beshara, Tony

HF5383 .B4335 2011